Minority Report Response

Racial discrimination is where an employer commits race discrimination when it makes job decisions based on race or when it adopts seemingly neutral job policies that disproportionately affect members of a particular race. Federal and most state laws prohibit workplace race discrimination. Title VII -- the federal law that prohibits racial discrimination of the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 work in concert to ensure that each resident’s chances in the pursuit of happiness are not damaged by their race. Although it is prohibited I believe that it is still an issue especially within the criminal justice system. I will support my answer with an ample amount of facts regarding racial discrimination within the criminal justice system.

Social issues are dealt with every day, everywhere in our society. Issues like immigration all the way to climate change. As our world evolves the number of social issues only continue to accumulate. Racial disparity is something that is in every aspect of our society. A repetitive social issue is minorities being targeted in the criminal justice system. Minorities, in specific African Americans receive unequal treatment and punishment in the criminal justice system this causes a split in our society, racist outburst, and million of unjustified incarcerations affecting the environment millennials grow in, and the economy as money is being spent where there should be no need for it.

Courts are established social, political, and judicial institutions necessary for the manifestation of justice and the maintenance of law and order. The courts are part of the judicial branch of government, as outlined in Article III of the United States Constitution. Courts are the arenas in which the law is tried and applied. Judges are the presiding officers of the court. The United States Supreme Court is the most fundamental court because has "the authority to decide the constitutionality of federal laws and resolve other disputes over them," (United States Courts, 2012). This is true even though even though the court does not expressly enforce that law; enforcement is the province of the executive branch.

In this video Marc Mauer explains the racial disparities in the criminal justice system which are overlooked and continues silently in the criminal justice system. Mauer explains how two teenage boys arrested for shoplifting in different social classes receives different treatment from the criminal justice system. The first teenager has a two parents that are able to send their son to get help. They are able to send him to a social worker. They inform the prosecutor that their son is doing better. The prosecutor decided to drop the charges against the teen because he was able to seek help for his criminal behavior. It is also implied this teenager is white financial stable and not a danger to the community. He is just an average teen who fell into the wrong crowd. Therefore, he has no criminal record and is able to apply for jobs without scrutiny for being arrested as a teen. This teen would also be viewed as a youth that is having environmental problems and would get social dispute resolutions, interventions for acting out in

Racial inequality is growing. Our criminal laws, while facially neutral, are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased. My research will examine the U.S. criminal justice policies and how it has the most adverse effect on minorities. According to the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, out of a total population of 1,976,019 incarcerated in adult facilities, 1,239,946 or 63 percent are

“The system is not fair. Institutional racism is alive and well in the juvenile justice system as it is in the criminal justice system, due to racial disparity and bias in the court room” (Jones, Bridgett). This is a statement that plagues many people involved in the justice systems. There are huge racial disparities throughout the world. Post-Slavery: the early development of the Race/Crime Connection, Profiling: Racializing possible cause, and differential bias involvement as well as institutional racism. We can work on having better policies and procedures driven into police practices and we need to make sure people of color are not excluded from juries to stop most of the disparity.

In order to keep a safe society, it is important to establish a nation with

The existence of racial disparity and structural inequality within the criminal justice system renders the concept of true justice for all unobtainable. The statistics of convictions and prison sentences by race definitely support the concept that discrimination is a problem in the justice system as well as the insignificantly number of minority judges and lawyers. There are a multitude of circumstances that influence these statistics according to the “Central Eight” criminogenic risk factors. The need for programs and methods to effectively deter those at risk individuals has never been greater and the lack of such programs is costing society in countless ways.

What are racial disparities in the criminal justice system? Racial disparities in the criminal justice system can be defined as “the proportion of a racial or ethnic group within the control of the system is greater than the proportion of such groups in the general population” (NCJRS, 2016.) There is an enormous racial disparity between African Americans and Whites in the United States criminal justice system. What are the racial disparities in the criminal justice system? This paper will show the racial disparities among African Americans and Whites through statistics of the criminal justice system.

It is obvious that there are several race disparities within the criminal justice system. For decades minorities (black Americans to be specific) have been subject to higher drug related arrest rates than whites, even though there is no evidence to show that black American use or sell drugs more than whites (Spohn & Belenko, 2015, p. 143) . You made a great point about the prison race population versus the overall race population of the United States. I too agree that since a majority of the population is white, majority of the prison population should be white. However, as we all know, that is not the case. According to research, black Americans constitute for roughly twelve percent of the American population, however practically

I feel like the racial disparities produced in the criminal justice system has always been the same, unfair and discriminate towards a certain group of people. We(americans) are still stuck on the old ways of inequality of race. People with brown skin aren't equal to those that are white, at least in the criminal punishment part of it. And I think prejudice has a lot to do with it. I feel like when people look at blacks, mexicans, and other colored races, they assume they're just another criminal and don't deserve the same rights as whites. Law enforcement, especially recently, have just assumed the worst in a person of color and treat them like animals. They immediately arrest or kill just because it's easier to do than giving them a voice

family income for whites is 38,909 and for blacks it is 21,161. This shows that

This overall inability to predict crime is due to many discrepancies found in the risk assessment. First white defendants were predicted to be less risky than they actually were with white defendants mislabeled low risk almost twice as often as black defendants. Black defendants were 45% more likely to be assigned higher risk scores than white defendants when controlling for prior crimes, future recidivism, age and gender. Black defendants were also twice as likely to be misclassified as being higher risk for violent crimes than white defendants while white defendants that do reoffend with violent crime were 63% more likely to have been misclassified as low risk for violent crime. Finally, black defendants were 77% more likely to be

The District of Columbia and 46 states deny those who are incarcerated from the privilege of voting in any election (Fagin, 2014). There are two states, Maine and Vermont, that allow any felon regardless of their state of imprisonment, parole or probation to vote. Only four states, Florida, Kentucky, Iowa and Virginia, do not allow anyone convicted of a felony to vote (Fuchs, 2012). The other states allow felons to vote depending on their classification in the system.

Ronald Clarke (1983) said the following about situational crime prevention: “Situational crime prevention can be characterized as comprising measures (1) directed at highly specific forms of crime (2) that involved the management, design, or manipulation of the immediate environment in as systematic and permanent a way as possible (3) so as to reduce the opportunities for crime and increase the risks as perceived by a wide range of offenders” (Lab, 2016, 216). What this means is that situational crime prevention focuses on certain people, places, problems, and times, rather than trying to take control over an entire community. It also means that much more focus and planning will take place to try and control these certain possibilities since these individual factors are ultimately the focus of crime prevention. The final part, which is the most important, is the idea that situational crime prevention can affect offending in a positive way. Situational crime prevention is important because it focuses on the idea of rational choice theory, which is the idea that offenders make the conscious decision to offend.