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An 8 page overview of the societal factors believed by many to be responsible for the disproportionate representation of blacks in our nations prisons and jails. The author provides statistics demonstrating the fact that blacks are disproportionately represented and then addresses the problems leading to the social stratification that many believe account for that disproportionate representation. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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The question as to whether our criminal justice system exhibits prejudice in sentencing individuals for their crimes is one which has become more and more demanding as time
progresses. We know that indeed there is a disproportionate number of blacks in the criminal justice system. Whether this fact has resulted simply because blacks commit more crimes
than do individuals of other races or because of some inherent bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them more harsh sentences is a highly controversial
topic. Most would agree, however, that violent crime is one of the most concerning issues confronting society today. Most would also agree that many of the crimes we
observe today are committed by blacks as opposed to whites. Indeed, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, murder by firearms is the number one cause of death
among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The perpetrators of such crimes are more often black than white. For whatever reason, the number
of blacks in our criminal justice system is indeed disproportionate to that of whites. The Human Rights Watch (2000) reports, in fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent
of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those arrested: "41 percent of
people in jail, and 49 percent of those in prison. Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation
or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole
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