States has seen a striking increase in incarceration rates. Our country currently holds almost a quarter of the world’s prison population while accounting for less than 5% of the total world population. Because most of the neighborhoods that are targeted are poverty stricken and populated mostly by minorities‚ hispanics and blacks make up a disproportionate amount of the prison population when compared to non-hispanic whites. Along with the increase in incarceration rates among minorities‚ there has also
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Phase 2 Discussion Board Introduction to Criminal Justice Hello Everyone‚ Are habitual offender laws targeting the right people for incarceration? Well first I am going to speak a little about the habitual offender laws. State legislators angered with the situation drafted new laws designed to prevent early release‚ especially for certain crimes. These new laws are called enhancement statutes. Examples of such statues would be the Habitual Felons Act‚ RICO‚ the Career
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Miranda Warnings You have the right to remain silent‚ anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney‚ and to have an attorney present during police questioning‚ if you cannot afford an attorney‚ one will be appointed to you by the state. These words have preceded every arrest since Miranda v. Arizona 1966‚ informing every detained person of his rights before any type of formal police questioning begins. This issue has been a
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The criminal justice system uses unique policies and programs to address the difficulties associated with dealing with young offenders. It is widely accepted by the international and Australian standards that children and young offenders should be subject to an alternate criminal justice system than adults‚ which identifies and recognizes their inexperience and irresponsibility. “Best interests of the child” (CROC article 3). In NSW‚ daily there are over 500 under 18s incarcerated in juvenile institutions
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The War on Drugs was proclaimed by the Nixon Administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. It evoked the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing‚ systematic racism‚ and mass incarceration of colored people. While the War on Drugs has certainly sought to eradicate controlled substances and destroy the networks established for their distribution‚ State efforts to control drugs are also a way for dominant groups to express racial power.Despite
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This piece of work is mainly about the social analysts position to the issue of racism and mass incarceration and also how the various principles of distributive justice can be applied to different positions in our issue of focus. It is quite evident that the main work of the social policy analysts is to identify current problems‚ evaluating them and coming up with solutions regarding to it. Once they discover the problem they
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race and therefore treated them as property‚ disregarding their human rights. After many years of exploitation and abuse‚ in 1791‚ slaves on the small island of Hispaniola revolted against French rule and successfully gained their freedom in 1804. It gave hope to African American slaves who‚ in turn‚ decided to stand against their masters and gain their freedom. Every one of those rebellions was extremely violent. They were so passionate about the cause and have been oppressed for so long that they targeted
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Alexander‚ mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America today. That is to say‚ being black connotes being a criminal and being a criminal is a contemporary “code word” for being black. The new Jim Crow evolved as a rebranded way to deal with race in America or as Alexander put it‚ an adaptation to the demands of the current political climate. It is perfectly legitimate in this day and age to discriminate against criminals just as it was to explicitly discriminate against people of color
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I believe that all offenders should have to be chemically castrated. Although chemical castration is presented as a humane alternative to lifelong imprisonment or surgical castration‚ the American Civil Liberties Union opposes the coerced administration of any drug‚ including antiandrogen drugs for sex offenders. They argue that forced chemical castration is a "cruel and unusual punishment"‚ and therefore should be constitutionally prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. They also stated that it interfered
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Zona Seca Youth Offenders Program To be honest‚ I was really pissed off that I had to enter the Zona Seca program to begin with. My so-called infraction was a simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am a full time student who works at least twenty-eight hours a week and is extremely pressed for time. The commute from Los Angeles was an extreme inconvenience. Just had to get that off my chest. Do not be fooled‚ I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend this program
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