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A 5 page research paper that analyzes three issues that the writer considers of significant importance. This analysis pertains to groups that have historically been marginalized within the framework of society and the criminal justice system. First of all, the US has a history of persecution against citizens of African American descent. Likewise, historically, violence against women, another marginalized group, has been tolerated in the past and, if left unchecked, tends to perpetuate itself into the future. A third group that has often been the focus of unjust laws and laws criminalizing their behavior consists of immigrants and pertains to immigration law. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that have historically been marginalized within the framework of society and the criminal justice system. First of all, the US has a history of persecution against citizens of African American
descent. Likewise, historically, violence against women, another marginalized group, has been tolerated in the past and, if left unchecked, tends to perpetuate itself into the future. A third group that
has often been the focus of unjust laws and laws criminalizing their behavior consists of immigrants and pertains to immigration law. Currently, there are a disproportionate number of young
black men in the American penal system. For the majority of the twentieth century, conflict theorists have argued that groups in power, that is, the dominant social groups within market
economies have employed penal sanctions against populations when they felt that their interests were threatened (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). Capitalist theories of economics maintain that a population on the lower
rungs of the socioeconomic ladder are a prerequisite for capitalism, as there has to be a surplus labor in order to maintain low wages and facilitate increases in capitalist profits.
In order to maintain control over these worker populations, control theorists argue that formal legal sanctions are developed by those in power to address threats to the societal status
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship between increases in the prison population and rates
of unemployment. Economic dislocation and instability are endured by minorities in the US at a far greater than any other demographic group. The unemployment rate for black males is
consistently twice that of white males (Vogel, 2003). Incarceration rates correspond with the upturns and downturns of the employment rate. Essentially, the prison system acts as a "dumping ground"
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