The Role Of Minorities In The Criminal Justice System
The Minority Community vs. Criminal Justice System
The criminal law(s) have always been an issue with Black America in the United States. The criminal justice system has evolved into a negative effect on minority races. This has continued to annihilate the African-American community from the Jim Crow Laws established after slavery in 1800s to now in the 2000’s. The government elites established theories to keep blacks from opportunity and equality. Marxist theory explains this, how minorities can be mistreated by the government (bourgeoise) then they can be a threat to revolt and up rise against them. In which, a racial caste system was created to stereotypically keeps black’s inferior to the majority. For example, it started with the Jim …show more content…
For example, they cannot vote when being a felon, they cannot find minimum wage jobs, and they cannot get into proper housing. “Collateral consequences” policies are legal rules restricting the rights and privileges of people with criminal convictions” (Ewald 5). These policies have widely increased over the past decade in the state and federal laws in America. “The legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and overt racial discrimination through the early 1970s have combined with employment, housing, and educational discrimination against black people even into our own time” (Tonry 31). “…The systemic racism and vindictive, dehumanizing brutality of the American criminal justice system” (Bretherton 274). This quote is saying how the criminal justice system we have in this democracy is systematically racist with brutality against minorities to make them feel less of a citizen inferiority. For example, Michelle Alexander uses a scenario to justify this claim of the governments way of stagnating minorities with laws and the unjust treatment of felons. “Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great- grandfather and great-great grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy” (Alexander 1). When blacks become felons some of their civil rights as citizens are taken away because of the setup of the criminal system we have in America. This bans them from voting for a long period of time or even their whole life. A lot of times they use employment opportunities because of background checks, usually end up working for little pay. Women minorities also have problems with the criminal system upheld by our democracy. “Women of color are disproportionately arrested and prosecuted in the United States criminal justice system” (Fox Supra 55). Women are targeted in the criminal system
The criminal law(s) have always been an issue with Black America in the United States. The criminal justice system has evolved into a negative effect on minority races. This has continued to annihilate the African-American community from the Jim Crow Laws established after slavery in 1800s to now in the 2000’s. The government elites established theories to keep blacks from opportunity and equality. Marxist theory explains this, how minorities can be mistreated by the government (bourgeoise) then they can be a threat to revolt and up rise against them. In which, a racial caste system was created to stereotypically keeps black’s inferior to the majority. For example, it started with the Jim …show more content…
For example, they cannot vote when being a felon, they cannot find minimum wage jobs, and they cannot get into proper housing. “Collateral consequences” policies are legal rules restricting the rights and privileges of people with criminal convictions” (Ewald 5). These policies have widely increased over the past decade in the state and federal laws in America. “The legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and overt racial discrimination through the early 1970s have combined with employment, housing, and educational discrimination against black people even into our own time” (Tonry 31). “…The systemic racism and vindictive, dehumanizing brutality of the American criminal justice system” (Bretherton 274). This quote is saying how the criminal justice system we have in this democracy is systematically racist with brutality against minorities to make them feel less of a citizen inferiority. For example, Michelle Alexander uses a scenario to justify this claim of the governments way of stagnating minorities with laws and the unjust treatment of felons. “Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great- grandfather and great-great grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy” (Alexander 1). When blacks become felons some of their civil rights as citizens are taken away because of the setup of the criminal system we have in America. This bans them from voting for a long period of time or even their whole life. A lot of times they use employment opportunities because of background checks, usually end up working for little pay. Women minorities also have problems with the criminal system upheld by our democracy. “Women of color are disproportionately arrested and prosecuted in the United States criminal justice system” (Fox Supra 55). Women are targeted in the criminal system