Contrastingly whites are underrepresented. However such statistics do not tell us whether members of one ethnic group are more likely than members of another ethnic group to commit an offence in the first place; they just tell us about involvement in the criminal justice system. For example differences in stop and search or arrest rates may be due to police racism, while differences in rates of imprisonment may be the result of courts handing down harsher sentences on minorities. There are other sources of statistics to reveal link of ethnicity and offending. Victim surveys ask individuals to say what crimes they have been victims of.
Hate crimes are still very real in today’s world. There is more than one type of hate crime in the United States. Hate crimes are attacks against a person, property or even the society and are because of racism. Even though the Civil Rights Act was passed the people are still acting out and violating harmless victims because of racism. It is surprising the statistics even for 2012 of the violate attacks against the victims.
"National Crime Vicitimization Survey" Submitted to Grantham University By Ken Thomson 12/19/2013 The Bureau of Justice Statistics started sponsoring the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 1973. These surveys provide a detailed picture of crime incidents, victims, and trends. The surveys are gathered due to more then half of victims not reporting their experiences to the police which means they can not measure all the annual criminal activity. Not only do they provide information on criminal incidents that have occurred, but also sees who is at risk of falling victim to crime. This information also shows where and when individuals are most likely to become victimized.
This is a day that will forever be burned in the minds of not only Americans, but other cultures and races across the world. A random act of violence (of a target) can have a few different levels. This was a hate crime that not only affected Caucasians, but races from all over the world, and once other races were affected; there was no taking back the damage that had been done. When referencing the factors that serve as victimization many different levels come to mind. If the hate crime is sexual orientation based, the factor(s) would be if the victim is LGBTQ, and with the number of individuals having issues with LGBTQ, the number of crimes is on the rise.
The accuracy of both reports is routinely in question because of the percentage of victims who do not self-report and often multiple crimes are listed as one- the most serious-while the rest are not accounted for in the reports(UCR). The NCVS, which is household based information may miss transient people/victims, is, like the other surveys, only reliable as long as the sample is truly representative of the population in question. In all of these surveys, credibility of the information is suspect. None of the three surveys collect information on the
Case Attrition CJS/220 (AAGl1EL1A2) 11/26/2014 Case Attrition In this paper, I will define case attrition and identify its effect on the criminal justice process. Case attrition is the failure of arrests to come to trial. One team of researchers studying the attrition of felony cases noted “half or more of all arrests for serious crimes end without convictions” (Feeney, Dill, and Weir, 1983). There are a percentage of felony charges that are reduced to misdemeanors, depending on the crime and the local prosecutor. Case attrition is broken down into three models.
LITERARY REVIEW: THE PREVENTION OF HATE CRIMES Introduction: It is an unfortunate reality that prejudice and aggression are some of the oldest and most long standing features of human society. Many have struggled to understand and address these problematic issues including social scientists, law enforcement, and other theorists. Society’s general adaption of values such as equality and tolerance coupled with the persistence of group tensions arising from a long history of ethnic, racial and status differences has given rise to a different brand of criminal activity; the hate crime. Increases or shifts in diversity have also contributed to the emergence of the hate crime (Boeckmann, R. J., 2002). Recognition of the dangerous harm of these acts is responded to in the form of hate crime laws.
Race is an influential idea and a continuing concept, made-up by society. It has also fostered inequality and discrimination for centuries, as well as influencing how we relate to other human beings. A “stereotype” is an oversimplification about a person or a group of people. We utilize stereotypes when we are incapable or reluctant to attain all of the information we would need to make impartial judgments about people or situations. In the absence of detail, stereotyping in many situations allow us to arrive at a general conclusion of these groups.
In my opinion racial profiling doesn’t serve any legitimate purpose in catching more criminals. “According to the Public Health Service, approximately 70% of drug users are white, 15% are black, and 8% are Latino. But the Department of Justice reports that among those imprisoned on drug charges, 26% are white, 45% are black, and 21% are Latino” (Head, 2011). Not only does racial profiling in fact not have any legitimate effect on catching more criminals, but it also has a negative effect. Racial profiling can divide a community, it can
CRM 2350 Essay topic: What are hate crimes? Discuss this question in reference to all of the following: gender, race, disability, age. This document intends to examine and attempt to understand what hate crime is, and to discuss them with reference to the specific issues of disability, age, race, and gender. In order to understand the label of ‘hate crime’, it is necessary to examine the categories of people who are considered to be victims of hate crimes. This essay will show that whilst the law often has a broad meaning, in the UK for example, “Any hate incident, which constitutes a criminal offence, perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated by prejudice or hate” (Stonewall, 2012), being able to identify and punish hate crimes is far more difficult that it would seem.