minorities and justice
Television shows such as Dateline, 60 Minutes and 20/20 have often aired segments on discrimination within the justice system through hidden cameras recording police behavior towards minorities, interviews with minorities falsely accused or mistreated, and by referring to capital punishment statistics seemingly biased especially towards blacks. The Justice Files has produced several biographies on minorities who were subjected to some atrocity by the American justice system. General interpretation of nationwide statistics seem to give the public the feeling that minorities are more likely to be incarcerated or subjected to capital punishment and more frequently experience racism by police officers, juries or other officials. Rodney King, O.J. Simpson, Mark Fuhrman and other recent figures have demonstrated that an individual's race may in fact be critical to how they are perceived by the criminal justice system. Through this research paper, I decided to pursue the "evidence" of discrimination to find where it stemmed from, the causes for it, and how it affects the application of justice. After reviewing the theories and statistics regarding minorities within the justice system, there is an easily apparent disparity between t
Dropouts. Auburn House, Westport Connecticut. 1991. Russell, Katheryn K. The Color of Crime. New York University Press, New York. Trimble, Bolek & Niemcryk, Editors. Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse: Wekesser, Carol. Social Justice Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven Press, Inc. 1990. It may even be argued that the previous evidence for deviant behavior and the resulting aberrant arrest/incarceration statistics are the result of hundreds of years of overt prejudice and racism. Minorities may be poor, violent and demonstrate other anti-social behavior because they have learned this response according to the environment whites have created. Mark Fuhrman and his perjured testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial (regarding his prejudice against blacks) happened only a few years ago. Racism has not been extinguished in the American justice system and its continued presence has adversely affected minorities. It would seem reasonable that high levels of dysfunctional behavior would lead to high levels of conflict with the criminal justice system. female-headed households, and poverty. For almost every measure
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