You cannot leave the subject of race when your talking about crime in the United States. As we know, the relevant groups in the Unites States are Asians, African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans. I started to question why certain races have more criminal involvement and victimization. This research paper talks about how heavy African Americans and Latinos are involved in the criminal justice system. There’s theory that are based on racial differentials in the criminal justice system. Did you know that the first juvenile who was tried as an adult was black? and where did the term “Super-Predator” come from?
What we know so far...
Race minorities are disproportionally represented in arrest statistics. African American juveniles accounted …show more content…
African Americans youths commit more delinquent acts when females are the head of the household. Most researchers find that broken homes have a larger effect on delinquency among African Americans (Monahan 1957; Moynihan 1965, Rosen, Lalli, and Savitz 1975). Youths who have dysfunctional families are more likely to be recommended for incarceration. This information was discovered by Rodriguez; she went through multiple interviews with probation officers. Detention decisions appear to be disproportionally reserved for youth of color. In their study of police and court detention decisions, Words, Byhum, and Corely (1994) found Black juveniles and Hispanic juveniles were more likely to be detained by the police and courts. Leiber and Fox (2005) found that African American juveniles were 18% less likely to serve the outcome of …show more content…
He called the police department to be repot a “suspicious guy”. The guy that was so suspicious was Trayvon Martin. Trayvon knew that he was being followed, so he started running. When the two encountered each other, Zimmerman ended the confrontation by shooting the unarmed teen in the chest.
Law enforcement use racial profiling as an excuse of probable cause. The particular ethnicity they go for are African Americans and Latinos. In some cases, it helps the criminal justice system catch the bad guys. For example, the search for Washington DC sniper in 2002. Profiling makes headlines especially when its used with excessive and abusive police behavior. Sometimes police believe certain ethnicities are “Driving the wrong car”. Dr. Elmo Randolph, commutes from Bergen County to his office near Newark, NJ. State troopers stopped him over fifty times and one of them issued him a ticket for speeding. Randolph claims that he wasn’t going over the speed limit, and was asked to search his car. Randolph was an African American Dentist, who drove a Gold
What we know so far...
Race minorities are disproportionally represented in arrest statistics. African American juveniles accounted …show more content…
African Americans youths commit more delinquent acts when females are the head of the household. Most researchers find that broken homes have a larger effect on delinquency among African Americans (Monahan 1957; Moynihan 1965, Rosen, Lalli, and Savitz 1975). Youths who have dysfunctional families are more likely to be recommended for incarceration. This information was discovered by Rodriguez; she went through multiple interviews with probation officers. Detention decisions appear to be disproportionally reserved for youth of color. In their study of police and court detention decisions, Words, Byhum, and Corely (1994) found Black juveniles and Hispanic juveniles were more likely to be detained by the police and courts. Leiber and Fox (2005) found that African American juveniles were 18% less likely to serve the outcome of …show more content…
He called the police department to be repot a “suspicious guy”. The guy that was so suspicious was Trayvon Martin. Trayvon knew that he was being followed, so he started running. When the two encountered each other, Zimmerman ended the confrontation by shooting the unarmed teen in the chest.
Law enforcement use racial profiling as an excuse of probable cause. The particular ethnicity they go for are African Americans and Latinos. In some cases, it helps the criminal justice system catch the bad guys. For example, the search for Washington DC sniper in 2002. Profiling makes headlines especially when its used with excessive and abusive police behavior. Sometimes police believe certain ethnicities are “Driving the wrong car”. Dr. Elmo Randolph, commutes from Bergen County to his office near Newark, NJ. State troopers stopped him over fifty times and one of them issued him a ticket for speeding. Randolph claims that he wasn’t going over the speed limit, and was asked to search his car. Randolph was an African American Dentist, who drove a Gold