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This 6 page paper considers the question of racism in criminal justice. The contention is made that blacks are more prone to commit crime and thus disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the United States, racism is still very much a part of our cultural fabric. That contention would appear to be reflected in a variety of societal aspects. Not
the least concerning of these is the appearance of racism in the criminal justice system. Contentions abound that racist police officers, lawyers, and judges are the reason that blacks
are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. In "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice", for example, Reiman (2006) asserts a
definitive anti-poor bias in arrest, conviction, and sentencing practices. The intent of this paper is to analyze that claim and similar ones and to conclude whether or not blacks
have been unfairly arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. The statistics do reveal that blacks are more likely to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned than are whites and even other minorities.
An astounding eleven percent of black males aged 20 to 34 are either in prison or jail (MacDonald, 2008). Although blacks represent only 13 percent of our national
population they represent some 37.5 percent of those imprisoned in state and federal prisons (MacDonald, 2008). One out of every 33 black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)!
This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDonald, 2008). Given the statistics noted above it would seem impossible to argue
that blacks are not more frequently imprisoned than are other races. This dis-proportionality, however, likely relates to something other than a racist criminal justice system. Statistics also reveal,
for example, that blacks are simply more prone to committing certain crimes. Blacks committed murder, for example, seven time more frequently than did whites and Hispanics together (MacDonald, 2008).
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