Jim Crow Laws Pros And Cons

Compare and contrast Jim Crow laws of the southern United States with South Africa’s Apartheid.

In the 1880’s after slavery was abolished, the Jim Crow laws were passed. Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that segregated the Whites from the Blacks in their everyday lives. Jim Crow was a fictional character in a play used that was to imitate a black man and mock the African American culture. Jim Crow laws were specifically for the African American community. These laws were taken more seriously in the South. The laws enforced racial segregation and were established as “separate but equal” (Jim Crow Laws). The Jim Crow laws had a negative effect on the African American population and subjected Blacks to segregation, more discrimination, and more racism than they had already received.

Despite offering possible treatment or programs, Americans place the responsibility of the crime on the person and they believe it is up to the person to pull by their bootstraps back into the society with no or little help. The society shuns the ex-convicts because people after being exposed to media which put the convicts in a bad light, believe that all convicts are dangerous, crazy, and liable to bite back.

Before there were players such as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball was strictly white players only. The color line of Major League Baseball excluded black players until the late 40’s. This didn’t stop the colored men of America from playing the beloved American sport. The creation of the Negro Leagues in 1920 by Rube Foster gave colored men a chance to play in their own professional league, similar to the Major Leagues, but for African-American men. The creation of the Negro Leagues was a result of the Jim Crow Laws, state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period in the U.S., these laws continued in force until 1965. These laws created

What are some ways that we welcome back ex cons into society if we do at all? What help determined our attitude towards these incrassated victims whether they are guilty or not? These are questions and situations that sociologist take time to research in society. This is mainly done because it affects society in some sort of way and it’s their job to find out why things happen and how can we help better the problems. Most offenders are from a lower income society or belong to an oppress group. The victims of coarse are the people who the harm is being done to, which by law there are consequences for their action. The problem, that leave one thinking is the kind of crimes people committed, or some may not commit any at all, probably just at the wrong place at the wrong time and they still happen to receive harsh penalty, being stigmatize as a criminal on record causing them to struggle in society.

Jim crow laws were a complex system of laws and regulations set for the separation of races. Jim Crow laws were set on boundaries with the phrase “separate but equal”, however they not only were discriminatory but they also were used in many ways that abused the freedom of American rights. One example for this is, “The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately (Florida, MLK, jr. National Historic Site SB 197).” Schools for African American students were provided with low quality supplies and and teachers were often not qualified, while white children received high education with quality resources. I can’t Imagine living in a world where you were discriminated and put down in every way,

Prisons not only rehabilitate, but they also deter people from going to prison. The fear of going to prison is a great deterrence for a perspective criminal. Hard life styles along with loss of freedom tend to push the criminal away from the chance of being incarcerated. Numbers show that there are fewer rapes, and fewer murders, each year, all an obvious product of prison deterrence. After all, if a person has a friend who just got out of jail, and hears all of the war stories, that person would surely not want to go to prison and end up like his friend. By making life in prison hard, the prison is doing a great job in getting the word out. Prison is no joke! They are doing their job in deterring criminals from wanting to enter the gates of hell.

Jim Crow laws were laws passed during and after Reconstruction as a means of denying African-Americans the rights they are guaranteed in the Constitution as well as the new equality they achieved as a result of Reconstruction. During Reconstruction, African-Americans were enfranchised to vote and even elected to office. Some African-Americans even held land. The statement that Jim Crow laws increased African-Americans' access to goods and services is inaccurate, because Jim Crow laws were meant to withhold African-Americans of their rights as much as possible, African-Americans were still at the bottom of the economic ladder, and they lowered African-Americans' prominence in American society after the end of Reconstruction.

The revolving door of recidivism is extremely different than it was only just a few decades ago though. Nowadays there are so much more offenders being arrested and released from prison than there was in the past. Not to mention most of them nowadays have served significantly longer prison terms than those offenders in the past, which in turn contributes to recidivism and the increasing rates over the years. Very few and far in between ever really received the benefit of the vast rehab or even pre release programs in the prisons, so in turn they end up right back where there started. They go in without and education and they come out without an education; they go in with no social skills and come out with no skills, they go in criminal and come out an even better criminal. How does that all work?? Who knows but lock them up.

Once you are barred as a felon trying to live a normal life is close to impossible, you are alienated from the rest of the world for the rest of our life even for petty crimes such as drug possession. Not being able to get certain things like housing or government benefits tends to drive people back into criminal activity so they can find a way to support themselves.

African American adults emerged in many ways following the chaos of the civil war. The African Americans needed to build a community following this occurrence. They were able to do so using the many job experiences and skills that they had developed and later became fine-tuned as time went on. These job experiences included millwrights to build mills, carpenters to build homes, blacksmiths to make the tools and everything needed for building, and stone masons for stone structures and buildings. Being skilled in these areas was very important to the community building process, allowing them to build their schools, churches, mason halls, and orphanages. This allowed them to even start a bereavement fund and building plots for those who have passed. The African Americans also would have been able to support their family using these skills and experiences to earn the money. And take the time and ingenuity to build their community’s as they stuck together as one. African Americans needed

These men and women are then released back onto the streets, back into our communities. Prison has not changed who they are, their violent behaviors, or their part in a street gang. They go back to the life they knew before prison, and the life they kept up while in prison. The most dangerous aspect of this cycle of crime is that these men and women return to prison again and again each time thinking they are a little tougher and their position in the gang a lot stronger. Their return trips to prison may ease the fears of the community for a few months or a few years, and each time the job of a correction officer becomes more difficult and more dangerous.

Those who have been incarcerated once they have been released have had huge amount of problems and trouble reintegrating back into society. It stems from the idea of this stigmatism that they have about themselves after being released from prison. It also is the leading cause why so many of them

Although prisons try to reform the offenders, once these individuals are placed back into the community they are often segregated from normal society, confined to the label of ex-convict, making it hard to find proper work and housing. Being labeled as a criminal affects not only how individuals behave and think of themselves but also how other people act towards them. Communities exhibit a sort of wariness towards embracing criminals into their communities due to the negative connation of violence and immorality that is commonly attributed to criminal activities. Due to these subliminal obstacles they face from society they begin to fall back into the familiarity of their past communities where they were initially introduced to crime. This concept is not the general rule regarding all ex-convicts; not all individuals who get released convert back into their old criminal ways, but I believe society is structured in such a way where the isolation and prejudicial labels limit these individuals to feel like they can be completely integrated back into normal

When a convicted felon is released from prison, their lives become more limited. They are no longer allowed to vote or own a firearm. They will also have a hard time finding employment due to their felony conviction. Having a criminal record, reduces a person’s chance of getting a callback or job offer by almost 50 percent (NAACP, n.d.). Convicted felons also have a more difficult time receiving an education due to the government not awarding them grants or funds to return to school. The fines that they have been charged with will also cause them to have a difficult time because what money they are able to gain has to go toward paying them instead of towards things such as bills or luxuries. This also makes the felons’ families suffer as well as if they are being punished for something that their loved one took part in. Some criminals will