Crime Rates In Prison Case Study

Among minorities such as Asians, Hispanics, Indians, Native Americans, and Middle Easterners, the African American race has been affected tremendously by the health disparities in the United States. Currently, African Americans have significantly higher mortality rates from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, HIV, unintentional injuries, pregnancy, sudden infant death syndrome, and homicide than do whites Americans (Fiscella & Williams, 2004). While African Americans may lead in these categories, other minorities are not far behind in experiencing health disparities.

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (Kassandra, A., 2015), the issue of health disparities have impacted many people’s lives in the community where the minority groups do not have equal access to the quality health care. These

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on health disparities seen within DeKalb County. The residents of DeKalb County are diverse in race, ethnicity, and income. Since the county is so diverse there are many health disparities seen amongst its residents. Health disparities occur within a county when one group of a population has noticeably better or worse health than another group within the same population. These groups of people can differ by income, education, sex, race, location, and even sexual orientation. This Paper will discuss the health disparities that exist within DeKalb County, and explain why these disparities exist from a historical, political and social aspect. Furthermore, this paper will give background information on health outcomes from national, state, and local epidemiological perspective in order to support the claims that disparities actually exist within this county.

The purpose of this research is to identify and measure the most common health disparities that cause African-Americans poor health outcomes, assesses the solutions, and provides alternative suggestions in order to reduce or eliminate the main health disparities.

The United States is a melting pot of cultural diversity. For a country that was founded by individuals fleeing persecution, it has taken us many years to grant African-Americans equal rights, and even longer for those rights to be recognized. Despite all the effort to eliminate inequality in this country, health disparity among this minority group remains a significant issue. Research in this area has pointed to several key reasons for this gap that center on differences in culture, socioeconomics, and lack of health literacy.

Health disparities undoubtedly exist among different racial groups with Healthy People 2020 identifying reducing racial gaps and infant mortality as a critical objective (Loggins & Andrade, 2013). Black children are reportedly two times more likely to die during their first year of life than white children (Huffington Post). Furthermore, the overall infant mortality rate is 6 deaths per 1,000 births, but for African American infants the mortality rate is 13.31 deaths per 1,000 births (CDC). There have been many medical advances, such as prescreening to find health issues that contribute to health disparities, but each racial group still do not benefit equally.

Demographics and control variable. Participants reported sex, age, U. S. citizenship, ethnicity, and educational grade level.

The variables that chose to study were the black population that the North Carolina counties reported in census year of 2010. I normalized that data by dividing the number of black population for specific county by the total population of the county to get a

The current crime and incarceration trends have declined since early 1990s, which in part is due to the current reforms that takes place within the criminal justice system, such as early release dates for drug charges and non-violent crimes (Mauer, 2011). The incarceration rates in the United States are “three to four times that of other industrialized nations,” and the punishment scale is viewed as “out of proportion to that of other industrialized nation” (Mauer, 2011).

Racial and ethnic health disparities plays a significant role when it comes to those living in a what is considered a low- economic community because people are more susceptible to poor air quality, high blood pressure related to stress, and violence. Inaccessibility to healthy foods forces people to have to eat unhealthy and struggle with the risk that can lead to obesity or high cholesterol down the road (Noonan, A et al ,2016). Also social racism with having limited income, and education can cause people to act out in a negative way due to being frustrated and can cause one to act out in a violent way which can cause a spike in crime. So much can be done to strengthen low economic communities such as re-opening schools in the neighborhood,

The vision of The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to help provide the American people have a healthy life equally. By increasing awareness throughout the nation on the prevalence rates and impact of health disparities on individuals and communities The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) helps reduce and encourage elimination of health disparities. The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) has a direction on developing and conducting research, publication of findings, train and public education to better minority health and minimize health disparities. In achieving those goals The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) must enhance its research and create a culturally knowledgeable workforce, develop researches on factors that influence health disparities and must reach out to communities to provide any new information that was identified in the recent researches and lastly educate the public.

Assisting in a research study, “BSCC Study of Intermediate Criminal Justice Outcomes,” I was responsible for identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to be used in describing a set 6 to 12 recommended performance metrics that were commonly available and could be used to provide information about the results of a county’s community corrections system. I identified data sources by searching criminal justice web sites and web pages containing crime data and demographic data comparable to data found in County reports and on their web sites. To determine defensible and usable data, I checked the data sources and data sets by crosschecking variables with other data sets to identify consistent collection methods and sources, variable definitions

The purpose of this research is to determine why the correctional system in the United States incarcerates non-violent offenders or offenders in general at a higher rate than any other country? The way in which the United States correctional system sentences offenders is not fair due to prejudice and racism. The United States has this “get tough on crime policy” that is ineffective and is not benefitting anyone. According to Clear (1996), “the common view of the prison is simplistic because it fails to account for the unintended consequences of imprisonment,” (p. 57). Elective officials need to be aware of the issues that are facing our country due to this “get tough on crime” initiative.

Sampling: Both studies used a non-probability convenience sample by choosing students enrolled in college classes.

According to the graph the trend reflects that since the year 1880 the prison population has increased at a steady rate rarely decreasing over the years. The years where the prison population rarely decreased where the year of 2010-2012.As I looked at the bar graph the graph indicated that Texas has the seventh highest prison rate among all the states presented and if we were to look at the Us total state prison rate it indicated that the US as a whole has the twelfth highest state imprisonment rate among states which is shocking to be truthfully honest. Which makes me ponder on how do states such as Maine and Rhode Island, Minnesota, Massachusetts have lower imprisonment rate. What are they doing differently to decrease their imprisonment