Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

When you think of the criminal justice system, you think of justice being served to those who wish to threaten it. The criminal justice system is a very powerful system that protects our society but like society, it is not perfect. The justice system runs off of discrimination against race and gender It is believed that African Americans are the criminals, Caucasians are the victims, and women are too weak to even be in the system. Is this information accurate? I believe that crime should not be totally focused on minorities, although the media seems to portray it that way. There have been a lot of crime where a Caucasian was the mastermind and its workers who are African American get punished for those crimes. Society notices minorities more because they are viewed as the” inferior” group in society. When it comes to females in the criminal justice system, society believes that they are too weak to carry out and force law into its citizens. Also when females commit crimes, they are seen as more of a criminal than men. Society has built up these images of races and genders of what they are supposed to be. A police officer's duty is to keep crime off the street and put criminals behind bars. Society needs protection from criminals so that life can go by smoothly. In the past, African Americans as well as other minorities were not accepted in society and were looked as inferior to the dominant group, the Caucasians. According to statistics and observations, African Americans and Hispanics have the highest crime rate in the Unites States(Walker, Spohn, and Delone, 2007). If your family came from a background of poverty, you were more likely to engage in crime. In my opinion, this is because if you grow up in poverty, you do not have the education and resources to be taught about crime and social norms in society. Minorities commit more of property, domestic, and drug abuse crimes. Usually those who have money are the mastermind of major crimes because they have the