Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System results from the dissimilar treatment of similarly situated people based on race. ... Racist interests trying to create causality between the Civil Rights Movement and an increase in crime is yet another early example of the issue of race being inextricably linked to crime and thus the Criminal Justice System. ... Overall it has been proven multiple times that Whites seemed to go unnoticed when it comes to committing crimes. ... White people who have committed the same crimes somehow avoided to get their crime covered by the media. ... There s...

• Word Count: 1374
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Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

• Word Count: 1640
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Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. ... That is why, since the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, courts have typically ruled-based on the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause-that mere reasonableness is an insufficient justification for officials to discriminate on racial groun...

• Word Count: 1414
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Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Bob Ewell is left handed and given his violent nature, it is clear that he commits the crime. ... Tom Robinson faced the death penalty for a crime that Bob Ewell commits. ... Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable ...

• Word Count: 1484
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• Grade Level: High School

Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. ... History has had their share of hate crimes, dating back to the start of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a group of whites that hate and terrorize blacks. ... The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. ... The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). ...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: High School

Wright's apparent honesty, however, is intended to arouse awareness to the ignorant and racist part of society, divulging to them that they are part of the problem concerning African American commited crimes. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

• Word Count: 1690
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Surely the piece is based on the many black families in Harlem that lost their houses, jobs and self-respect. ... He won't admit to a crime he did not commit. ... Only if the white jury can end the burning shame he feels, will he admit to the crime he did not commit. ...

• Word Count: 1313
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Some of biggest differences with African American MCs were the issues of civil rights, crime, and party politics. ... For example, when we look at the issue of crime, we can see a difference in percentage. Only 2.9% of the white MCs, 4.8% of the African American MCs, and 2.1% of the other minority MCs posted/tweeted about issues of crime. This occurs because communities in the United States that have a higher crime rate tend to have a higher percentage of minority groups living there; MCs tend to voice their opinions on topics that relate to members of their racial communities. ... I'm su...

• Word Count: 1964
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Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... Washington, an African American man who graduated from a leading college, encouraged the black community to not only establish an economic base, but also create good relations with the white race. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She feels as though these spectators are just as guilty as the men committing the crime. ...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School

The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. During this period of time many people suffered in the south. There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. Many other foundations were destroyed that citizens depended upon to kee...

• Word Count: 1876
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Opinions of other races and nationalities are based on stereotypes. ... Some inner city youths must also live their childhoods in high crime, drug infested areas. ... Affirmative action is designed to end discrimination and unfair treatment of employees/students based on color, but it in effect does the opposite. ... There are many factors which constitute a student's perspective, but affirmative action gives preferential treatment based exclusively on race, a purely external characteristic. ...

• Word Count: 1530
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck Finn, therefore, serves as a spectator, judging them based on realistic observations. ... Although he still considers rescuing Jim as "stealing"" him, the fact that he would commit such a crime just for a slave still establishes great significance in the purpose of reversing the black-white paradigm. ...

• Word Count: 1798
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"Under the American system of justice, civil courts (lawsuits) and criminal courts (prosecution of crimes) Reparations 3 require such proof of wrongdoing, criminal acts or harm" (Editors Note, Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement, 2002). ... Adversity.Net News and Analysis (2003) writes: Reparations 4 In the 36 years since the passage of the original Civil Rights Act of 1964, trillions of dollars in federal transfer payments, welfare payments, racial job quotas, race-based federal contract set-asides, and race based college admissions have already been paid to so-called "historica...

• Word Count: 1482
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Point number seven is based around the idea of self defense. ... We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so called crimes under the laws of this country. Point number nine looks at the view that until someone convicted of a crime is out in front of his peers, not just an all white jury, then justice can never exist within the penal system. ...

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Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person, or race because of color, culture or beliefs. ... The government had no proof any Japanese person becoming a traitor " The governments policy was based on the incredible notion that this group of people, solely on the basis of ancestry, had to be regarded as inherently disloyal to the United States." ... Even though all the Japanese people were accused of being traitors not one Japanese American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities, none was ever charged with any kind of crime, except being ethnic Japanese. ...

• Word Count: 2342
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His teenage years were filled with disappointment, crime, and tragedy. ... Malcolm then pursued a life of crime alongside his friend "Shorty" in Harlem, New York. ... This is evident in his speech the "The Ballot or the Bullet" where he said, "Join any kind of organization - civic, religious, fraternal, political or otherwise - that's based on lifting ... the black man up and making him master of his own community." ...

• Word Count: 2097
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Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ... "By the time these minority students reach college-age, it is already too late for many of them; crime-ridden neighborhoods, poverty and failing K through 12 public schools are a brutal winnowing process"(Cose) Although these issues are very real, they must not be handled in a manner which places certain individuals above others. ...

• Word Count: 2129
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We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... In the case of slavery, his talent with words allows him to shuffle off the guilt of the crime onto a separate entity - the institution itself. ...

• Word Count: 2122
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In order to avoid being persecuted for crimes he was innocent of committing, Staples describes his efforts to make himself appear less threatening. ... By using more technical speech and citing other author's works, Staples creates a more intellectual tone in his story which gets his point across, and has a fairly strong emotional base. ...

• Word Count: 1531
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Highly esteemed scientists not only helped phrenology to sound factual based, but each added their own input as to why ethnic peoples differed so greatly in the hierarchal chain compared to the so-called superior Caucasian race. ... A belief, though, had given them a sense of obligation to their heinous crimes. ...

• Word Count: 1439
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According to members their religion and philosophy called "Creativity- is based on the external laws of nature, the experience of history, on logic and common sense. ... The site things such as black crimes, growing acceptance of homosexuality, interracial marriages, increasing drug use, and a lack of racial identity among white people of items to help back there belief. ...

• Word Count: 1899
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The charges were based on 1921 "just cause ". ... When the city defended segregation by saying that integration would lead to violence and Judge Rives asked the defendant "Is it fair to command one man to surrender his constitutional rights, if they are constitutional right, in order to prevent another man from committing a crime. ...

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While it can easily be argued that the southern motives against slavery were solely based on embedded racism, it is important to note that most Americans felt the exact same way about the issue. ... Nonetheless, African Americans are disproportionately targeted, arrested, and jailed for drug related crimes....

• Word Count: 1706
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