The average prison sentence for a violent crime is about one year longer for African-Americans than for Caucasians ("Racial Inequalities in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. ... A study has shown that 58,000 criminal cases have found disparities in the sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crime ("Black Americans Given" 1). ... Blacks and whites should be treated equally when it comes to making a sentence of the same crime. ... Also, people might think that white cr...

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DESCRIBE Does the punishment fit the crime? ... The question then remains, whether the punishment fits the crime, or if the race and ethnicity of a student is what determines the punishment? ... Is it that the students deserve a strong punishment because their behaviors are more extreme? No, unfortunately, minority students receive harsher punishments than that of their classmates solely because of their skin color. ...

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There is a man that get punishes for political various political crimes, for his punishment he gets sent to a place where there is very little water and food. At the beginning of his punishment he has someone else with him named Maria, she was his wife, she stayed with him threw the pain for twelve out of the fifteen years. ... Mahmoud Fall led a life of crime and trickery; he traveled from place to place getting food and respect from people and then leaving soon after. ...

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To achieve this, the police and the courts "detect crime and bring it to justice" (par 1). ... The term hate crime is relatively new to the criminal justice system. ... The punishment of hate crimes helps to discourage interracial violence. ... To understand why racial disparities exist in hate crimes, it is important to know who commits them. ... Lack of police efforts against hate crimes have made some citizens pusillanimous. ...

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However, the reason for targeting specific neighborhoods and high crime areas, has allot to do with trends and the likelihood of another crime happening within that area or by a certain race or ethnicity. ... It is more likely for minorities and poor people to turn to crime for survival. ... Crimes are committed by all races despite the level of social class or construction. ... There has been numerous studies performed that indicate more minorities have been pulled over, arrested and have been given harsher punishments than whites. ... The police have a job to do and they feel that even the...

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In her novel The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison tells a tragic tale, carefully leading the reader through the circumstances which result in Pecola Breedlove's demise. She does not allow the reader to feel a satisfied hatred toward the characters who directly hurt Pecola, instead she spends chapters acquai...

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However, by equality, it does not mean equal punishment for people who perform equal crimes. ... When asked what the purpose of the prison system is, many people will probably tell you: to lock up criminals, protect law-abiding citizens from dangerous ones, to deter crime, or some other variation. ...

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In school, he is the only student in his class that does not receive corporal punishment, because it would be unthinkable for a black teacher to hit a white child. ... Conley begins to live two identities: he spent his school days with children of wealthy white families and came home in the afternoon to violence and crime in a minority neighborhood. ... Even in his own neighborhood in New York City, he realizes what a nightmare it is to grow up in the crime-ridden neighborhood. He personally experiences crime when his best friend Jerome is shot by a stray bullet and paralyzes him. ... Dalton r...

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She brings up the fact that "29% of these two hundred and eleven persons were charged with crimes against women" and then goes on to say that the other 79% of men were lynched over "some kind of offense against white men". ... The white male who assaulted the woman did not face any serious punishment, while the woman raped often faced serious injuries, no support from local law enforcers, or even death- proving the evident double standard that existed for women of different color as victims of rape. ...

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The police hearing the man saying such a thing like that with two little dead girls in his arms, them white and blonde, him black and as big as a house, automatically assumed that he was the killer indeed and did not bother to investigate the crime. ... Thus, this made it easier for him to accept the punishment imposed on him, although it means his wrongful death sentence. ... When the truth was finally revealed, that John Coffey in fact was innocent of not having committed the crime, authorities looked the other way, because to them justice to John Coffey, being a black person, was not a...

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Dalton walks into the room and bigger freezes, covering Mary's face with a pillow unwillingly suffocates her and he notices his crime and panics after Mrs. ... Richard, trying to escape punishment, hides underneath his house. ...

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She argued that whites committed crimes, just as the blacks did, but no action was taken against them. ... By the right exercise of his power as the industrial factor in the south, the Afro-American can be demand to secure his rights, the punishment of lynchers and a fair trial for members of his race accused of outrage."...

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