"We cannot run society for the privileged and allow a significant proportion of the population to be marginalized. ... Latinos constitute 19% of the prison and jail population compared to their overall 15% share of the population. ... While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). ... Whites comprise the majority of the American population, blacks about 12.7%, and Latinos represent about 11.7%. ... As a result, African Americans, who are 13% of the population and 14% of drug use...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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It is well documented that there has been a substantial increase in America's prison population within the past 30 years. America's penal population has increased six fold between 1972 and 2000, leaving 1.3 million men in state and federal prisons by the end of the century (Pettit and Western 151). There is also the fact that over 90% of prisoners are men, and that incarceration rates for African American men are about 8 times higher than those for white men (Pettit and Western 152). ... Mandatory minimums were also a controversial issue because they unfairly targeted African America...

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Description of the Problem America is the most diverse nation in the world. ... Black Americans make up about 12% of the US population and they account for more then 30% of all arrests, 44% of all prisoners and 40% of prisoners on death row (Hunt, 1999:74). ... In New York City, where people of color make up about half of the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. ... The media usually depicts African Americans as typical drug users. This impacts the way Americans imagine a drug user. ...

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Such senseless killings are grounds for gun control to jump to the forefront of America's many affairs. ... Guns have played a major role in America's history. ... The United States of America as we know it now could very well still be an extension of England if it wasn't for the widespread use of guns. Without the use of guns in the general population, great generals such as George Washington would not have been as successful in battles as they were. ... The fact that crime rates have gone down despite the large population in both Texas and Florida is insight to how successful ...

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Reforming America's criminal justice system is a top priority, in order to end racism, and to clear up the population's tarnished image of law enforcement. ... There have been countless African American men and women who report being subject, to not being promoted because of their color and who they are affiliated with, according to (Martin, 1994). ... The article states indefinitely that African American female officers are less promoted because of their affiliation with African American men, whom most likely are not in a position of power. As you can conclude, it also states that C...

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Data collected by the Ferguson Police Department from 2012 to 2014 shows that Africa Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops, 90% of citations, and 93% of arrests made by FPD officers, despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson's population (p. 4). The Justice Department clearly indicates the Ferguson Police Department has racial bias further alienating the African American population as well as diminishing the legitimacy of law enforcement agencies in the United States. ... Lewinski of the Force Science Institute continues to publish articles to the law enforcement population without re...

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American policing has experienced a time of critical change and development. ... American police were gotten unconscious when the nation's security needs were profoundly adjusted by the terrorist assaults on American soil on September 11, 2001 (Universal Relationship of Head of Police, 2005). ... Community policing depends upon organizational decentralization and a reorientation of patrol keeping in mind the end goal to encourage two communication between police and the general population. ... The best approach to keep terrorism from identifying so as to influence the non-military personn...

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The United States of America houses the most prisoners worldwide. ... Because of these initiatives prison populations have risen by three hundred and eighty percent. To put that in perspective the United States Census data revealed that the nation's population rose only thirty-three percent during the same period. Comparatively speaking, the number of people incarcerated in state and federal facilities has grown ten times faster than the rate of our entire population. ... Keeping accountability of them while not taking them out of America's workforce completely better rehabilitates t...

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American society likes to use the common phrase "what is in the best interest of the child" when justifying the punishment they deploy on juvenile delinquents. ... Furthermore a child being injected into a prison population cannot be good for that kid's physical or mental health. ... When it comes to the safety of people and their families it is fair to say that the general consensus would be take the chances of sacrificing a murderer's future, even if he is a kid, to ensure the safety of America's communities. Do to the terrorist attacks occurring recently, in where many Ame...

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For example, "Thirty-four percent of those executed in America since 1974 have been black, while African Americans represent only 13% of the general population" (Mears, 2008). ... Because most of the overall population are underneath the poverty line, police along with society seem to believe that that's where the most crimes occur. ... This seems to initiate that in most cases the targets of race are African American and Hispanics/Latinos, which actually happen to be the minority of the overall population. As previously states, "Thirty-four percent of those executed in Ame...

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In America's history, in the over 18,000 convictions of capital punishment, only thirty-seven were of a white person being punished for the murder of an African-American. Also, despite the fact that African-Americans constitute only 12% of the national population ("Five"), they comprise 43.1 percent of the prisoners on death row ("Death"). In fact, a comprehensive study in Georgia concluded that murderers of white people are 4.3 percent more likely to receive a death sentence than a killer of an African-American ("Five"). ...

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In January of 2003, The American Journal of Sociology published an article written by Eric P. ... The data used form the Census was to measure two aspects of their theory, the minority population size and the economic inequality. ... While the 2 independent variables were the homicide rate, the degree of conservatism in the politics, and the general size of the minority population, and the level of economic inequality. ... The most important findings, reveal that the homicide rate, a 3 onservative political area, and the large size of black population are significant factors o...

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The American institution has encountered numerous issues within its criminal justice system since its establishment in the U.S. The American juvenile justice system does not offer fair judgment when sentencing juvenile offenders to life sentences without parole. ... It's important as members of American society to be aware of all the issues in the criminal justice system and how our government officials handle these issues. ... The way judicial officials handled the same cases 50 years ago has affected the future population of criminals in prison facilities presently, and those same child...

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Amnesty International also revealed, according to a 2007 study of Connecticut sentences that were examined by Yale University School of Law, African-American defendants receive the death penalty at three times the rate of white defendants in cases where the victims are white. ... Despite the fact that African Americans make up only 13 percent of the nation's population, almost fifty percent of those currently on the federal death row are African Americans (Death Penalty Information Center, 2015). ... If we look at the prison population, many prisoners are suffering from life long history ...

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The British crime survey (BCS) has its origins in two seminal studies carried out in America in the mid-sixties (Ennis 1967; Bidermann & Reiss 1967). ... Thus not all the population eligible to be included in the BCS will be included, these discrepancies do not fall into the realms of sampling error, as the numbers involved are relatively small in comparison to the overall survey. ... A booster sample has been added in recent years of 4,000 ethnic minority people to see if their experiences of crime differ from those of the general population. ... Elliot and Ellingworth (1992) have sugges...

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In the 1980s, many new American drug laws resulted from escalating efforts to "get tougher" on drugs and drug users. ... The vast majority of these offenders are in state and local jails and prisons, where they now account for almost one-fourth of the total population behind bars. ... In the 1998 report Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population (SAAPP) the author's assert, [d]rug and alcohol abuse and addiction are implicated in the crimes and incarceration of 80 percent--some 1.4 million--of the 1.7 million men and women behind bars in America. ... If this rat...

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To the average American, it would seem as if violent crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. In reality the number of violent crimes is decreasing, despite the fact that our prison population is growing rapidly (Wolfers 2014). ... Also, due to population size, whites use more drugs than any other group (Knafo 2014). ... The labeling can be used to envelope a large portion of the population with a negative stigma. ... There is a theme that crimes committed by the youth population are getting worse, becoming more frequent, and that the offenders are getting younger and younger. ...

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While working for the Bush administration's secretary of health and human services he was appalled by the epidemic of violent crimes he saw taking place in American cities. ... Sullivan, "more than 26,000 Americans were murdered and six million violent crimes were committed with young men and minorities falling victim most frequently". ... Firstly they see the deviant as different from the rest of the population, he or she is abnormal in a normal population and that the abnormality predisposes him or her to deviance. ... Merton used this "theory of anomie" to refer to the lower strata...

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Appearance has held such precedence for Americans. ... For a variety of reasons, it is easier to make arrests in these neighborhoods as contrasted with, for example, suburban neighborhoods with mostly white populations. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those se...

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On a unanimous vote, "unfairly long sentences" for crack offenders, who are mostly African Americans, were reduced to be more compatible with sentences given to powder-cocaine offenders, who are often white and sometimes affluent (Serrano). ... Almost six percent of the federal inmate population will be released. ...

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Focus on learning skills is clearly influential in increasing population safety, personal health, and participation in political life. ... These states are unsafe may be because the percentage of residents who have high school or above degree are low, where the majority of these states population is immigrants and African American. ... In "Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality," Verba and Nie (1987) define the political participation as "Those activities by private citizens that are more or less directly aimed at influencing the selection of gover...

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Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies. ... They cite such factors as the percentage of urban residents in the state, the level of economic prosperity, and the social and racial makeup of the population. ... In Texas in 1991, blacks made up 12 percent of the population, but 48 percent of the prison population and 55.5 percent of those on death row are black. ...

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The most heavily effected group of Americans, ages 16-24, have had an increase in joblessness of over 12 percent since 2000. ... This lack of support for our underprivileged Americans will ultimately result in an increase in the crime rate across the United States. ... In the article entitled "Young, Jobless, Hopeless," Bob Herbert talks about the rising percentage of young Americans who may have no job and no place to call home. ... The Health Department is in charge of creating support systems to help the growing homeless population in the area as well as help HIV victims, drug users, an...

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In previous years, the American public based their views strictly on the deterrent effects and cost effectiveness of the death penalty. Public opinion on capital punishment in America over the past 50 years has fluctuated tremendously. Support was fairly low through the 1950's, and in 1966 only 47% of the American public voiced their support. Since 1982, about 75% of the population has favored capital punishment, with a slow decline in recent years (Gillespie 1999). ... With recent studies and technological advances, the American views towards capital punishment have changed significa...

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