every 111 white women. (2010 Census) Research done by social scientist has concluded that the criminal justice system has profound and integral effects on certain communities that are most heavily impacted by the uneven incarceration rates. Systematic racism and mass incarceration is not a new tactic; it is a tactic that was at first called slavery but now has a new “race-blind” name.
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society fuels a cycle of poverty and incarceration. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ incarcerated people had a median income (prior to their incarceration) of $19‚185 which is 41% less than non-incarcerated people. A large number of people enter prison in poverty and are released with a slim chance to escape poverty due to employment discrimination for prisoners. Poverty is a huge factor in the reason why America’s recidivism and re-incarceration rates are so high. Released prisoners
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At 2.2 million inmates‚ the United States currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Approximately 1 per every 130 people are imprisoned and over 4 million people are on probation or parole. Despite the amount of people locked up‚ the U.S. has wildly fluctuating crime rates and the number of offenses per year has steadily been going up since the year 2000 (Henry). While the current prison system is highly debated amongst different groups‚ it is generally agreed that crime rates are
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something that started in the early 1980s has made it easier on the Criminal Justice System to punish criminals that are young or have committed non violent crimes. Instead of going to prison these criminals go to Shock Camps or also known as Shock Incarceration. Shock-camps were first established in Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983. Many states and counties across the United States have adopted this idea. The reason for Shock-camps was because in the 1980s the number of convicted criminals began to increase
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Mass incarceration is often cited as one of the main pillars of institutional racism in America due to the disproportional amount of minorities incarcerated yearly. The war on drugs is widely acknowledged as one of the main reasons for mass incarceration and its devastating effects on the black community. On June 17‚ 1971‚ Richard Nixon officially declared drugs “America’s public enemy number one” and thus began the colloquialized War on Drugs (Alexander 16). Seeing as Nixon’s presidency shortly
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In The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander’s argument that Mass Incarceration is‚ metaphorically‚ the new Jim Crow is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem a system of racial and social control that is prevalent in the United States today. Although I agree with Alexander generally‚ I cannot accept her overriding assumption that Mass Incarceration is the only system of oppression contributing to the new system of oppression that has been emerging since the so-called end of
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Urban overcrowding is not a fresh happening‚ but it has recently become an international demographic trouble. The growth of the world’s ’Megacities’ such as Tokyo‚ Jakarta‚ Sao Paulo and Cairo‚ with populations approaching 20 million‚ is one of the most marked trends of recent decades. In 1950 for instance‚ New York City was only one of its kind among the world’s cities in having more than 10 million inhabitants. By 1975 that number had grown to 15 million
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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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other countries‚ and compare it to the United States to give ourselves the illusion that we are free. Although it may be true that we have more freedom than other nations‚ it is not true that the United States is an absolutely free nation. The incarceration rates of this country are devastatingly high that the prison system operates more like a business than as a correction
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Mass incarceration has many costs associated with it besides for the punishment of the offender. For many people‚ they have no idea how badly an incarceration can destroy someones entire life‚ and family. Mass incarceration affects everyone‚ the offender‚ their family‚ and the entire community as a whole. I believe that there are three major consequences and costs that are encored by mass incarceration‚ and they each effect either the offender‚ their family‚ or the seemingly unrelated community
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