How unfair the justice system is in regards to race and the results of it.
Date Submitted: 02/27/2004 06:17:10
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 6 pages (1747 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 6 pages (1747 words)
Inequality: Race, Crime, and the Law
Policing and punishment in America is hardly colorblind. It is not a coincidence that minorities serve longer sentences, have higher arrest and conviction rates, face higher bail amounts, and are more often the victims of police use of deadly force than white citizens. When it comes to criminals, many people have a preconception of what a criminal is. Usually when people think of a criminal they picture a Black …
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…role it play's in society and what outcome we want from it. We need to use equality rather than personal views when making difficult decisions in society.
Works Cited
Cole, David. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System.
New York: The New Press, 1999.
Kennedy, Randall. Race, Crime, and the Law New York: Pantheon, 1997
Russell, Katheryn K. The Color of Crime. 1998. 10 Apr. 2002 http://emedia.netlibrary.com/reader/reader.asp?product_id=1331
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