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A 14 page paper examining several points of race-related differences in the criminal justice system's treatment of detainees in the first four pages. All remaining text is devoted to devising survey questions for a larger project, field testing the questions and refining them for use in an upcoming project. The remainder of the paper describes four test interviewees and discusses preliminary results obtained. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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failure to manage crime reduction?" Reimans (2004) excuses are: (1) "Were too soft;" (2) "a cost of modern life;" (3) "blame it on
the kids;" and (4) "we just dont know what to do" (pp. 22-27). These are only "teaser" lines in that Reiman (2004) ultimately argues against each of these four
excuses. Against the first, he demonstrates that the US has one of the worlds highest rates of incarceration and that sentencing has become so harsh over the past 30
years that at least one criminologist has described the period as a "conservative social experiment that has been tested and shown to fail" (Reiman, 2004; p. 23).
The "modern life" excuse can be assessed against the "denial of responsibility" neutralization technique. The lecture notes state, "We all turn a blind eye, so
it is not just the so-called bad people who are to blame" (p. 5). Reiman (2004) asks which is the greater threat, that of the barroom brawler or the
upper-class executive placing employees or others in direct and known danger because abatement of the danger would be too expensive? (p. 81). Reiman (2004) appears generally to be anti-business,
but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist. The "we dont
know" excuse also can be assessed against the "denial of responsibility" neutralization technique. Weve tried everything - harsher sentences, tougher laws, throwing money at the problem. At the
same time that many of those committing crimes are denying responsibility for their actions, so does the faceless "society" deny responsibility for not finding a solution. Does our justice system
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