Racial Disparity in Sentencing Lori Raynor University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CJA/423 Ron McGee September 06‚ 2010 Abstract In this paper I will illustrate racial disparity in sentencing in the criminal justice system. The causes of racial disparity and the reasons it is on the rise‚ the research statistics‚ and the proposed solutions are discussed. Racial Disparity in Sentencing The intersection of racial dynamics with the criminal justice system
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The Racial Worldview The meaning of racism can be defined a prejudice or animosity against a group of people who belong to a race. The idea of racism can be stemmed from the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities‚ and that some races are inherently superior or inferior. The practice of such racial activities reflects the ideas of a racial worldview. This ideology states that humans are classified and divided into different biological and hereditary entities
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The Race Gap Racial injustice in the United States is provoked not by the law of the land‚ but rather exists in the minds of its citizens. Legal prejudice‚ like segregation‚ ended long before now‚ however it is still a problem facing our nation today. Research and studies‚ as well as many Supreme Court cases can support the idea that racial injustice is a product of the mind rather than the law. Racial profiling continues to anger many Americans of minority races‚ such as African-American or Latino
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Another lense through which inequality can be conveyed through is the social and income class lense. Depending on one’s class standing‚ it has the ability to determine a lot about a person’s life‚ including: access to opportunities at higher paying jobs and higher education‚ as well as the ability to live a healthier‚ safer and more comfortable life. Those that are able to afford‚ or have the social status to achieve more luxurious options‚ tend to have their feelings of power and privilege be enforced
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To some extent‚ gender inequalities occur in most areas of society‚ everywhere in the world. Geographically examine this statement Gender inequality is a huge problem that the world if facing. There have been little signs of improvements worldwide. Gender inequality is basically the unequal treatment based on ones gender. One of the millennium development goals for 2015 was to promote gender equality and empower women. There were only eight goals installed which indicates the significance of the
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Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender.(Wikipedia) It seems quite often that women are unlikely to have top jobs (glass celling)‚and they are paid less in spite of doing the same workforce with men. Moreover‚ it is women who accept most part-time works and fill in those special areas like cashing (horizontal segregation). So‚ some experts suggest that in twenty-first century‚ women can be regarded as a ‘reserve army of labour’‚ prepared to
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other human groups. Racial discrimination is a big problem that happen in everywhere around the world and it’s difficult to solve even though these problems are reduced from the past greatly‚ the racism still have been immanent in the world. There are two examples in the problem of racism that we will offer
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Introduction For the past decades in the welfare economy concern‚ the question of “how can we be sure that inequalities are simply unjust?” has been answered by countless principles offered by philosophers as well as economists. One of the topic raised is utilitarianism as the principle that holds inequality and distributive justice by Jeremy Betham (1748-1832). The idea is that the distribution of goods is just if and only if it maximizes aggregate utility (Reiss‚ 2013 p.256). Some critics were
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Economic Inequality in America The Occupy movement gained fame in September 2011 with a slogan that brought together a wide range of people‚ “We are the 99 percent.” The goal of the group is to get rid of economic inequality throughout the world. The group sparked a change in the way many people look at the way the world is. Wealth inequality is a word used to describe how money and assets are distributed among a group of people‚ in this specific case‚ the group of people is the population of people
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extension‚ many of the rest of us‚ think about economic inequality today is influenced by what Aristotle wrote about economic inequality almost two and half millenia ago. In and of itself‚ this is somewhat remarkable. But more importantly‚ Aristotle’s idea that the problem with economic inequality is that the poor‚ if they gain power‚ will soak the rich remains both pervasive and persuasive. On this reading of Aristotle‚ economic inequality is ‘bad’ because it provides an incentive for the poor to
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