Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System Marc Mauer Assistant Director The Sentencing Project Prepared for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights April 15-16‚ 1999 Washington‚ D.C. 2 THE CRISIS OF THE YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Marc Mauer Assistant Director The Sentencing Project Introduction In recent years policy attention regarding the crisis of the African American male has focused on a variety of areas in which African American males
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Criminal Recidivism Angie Simpson University of Phoenix HCS 438 Statistical Applications April 13‚ 2013 Amber Krasney Criminal Recidivism Prisons today are overcrowded and are a growing problem in today’s society. “In 2008‚ the Pew Center on the States reported that incarceration levels had risen to a point where one in 100 American adults was behind bars. A second Pew study‚ the following year‚ added another disturbing dimension to the picture‚ revealing that one in 31 adults in the United
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T: Th. 3:30p.m.-4:45p.m. D’Angelo‚ Raymond and Herbert Douglas‚ eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity‚ 7th edition (Dubuque‚ IA: McGraw-Hill‚ 2009) “Issue #9: Is Racism a Permanent Feature of American Society?” Is Racism a Permanent feature of American Society? Derrick Bell argues in this issue that the prospects for achieving racial equality in the United States are “illusory for Blacks. Bell reminds us despite the fact of the progress of blacks in United States; the
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Effectiveness of Recidivism Recidivism refers to a person’s relapse into criminal behavior‚ often after receiving sanctions or undergoing intervention for a previous crime. This term applies equally to both adults and juvenile offenders. Nearly 650‚000 people are released from the nation’s prisons every year‚ and about nine million more are released from jails. Two-thirds of those who come out of prison are rearrested within three years of release (Dory‚ 2009). Numerous
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The disproportionate number of African-American males incarcerated within the United States is a difficult social dilemma that needs to be more fully understood and addressed. This paper will explore the mass incarceration of African-American men. The paper will look into the prevalence‚ causes‚ consequences‚ and offer solutions to this crisis. Specifically‚ seeking to find what factors have created such high levels of criminal justice control for African-American males‚ and explore the impact on the
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MORE EDUCATION LESS RECIDIVISM: RESEARCH DESIGN After analyzing the literature review the reader can draw their own conclusion on the hypothesis: inmates who receive an education while incarcerated are less likely to recidivate when released; compared to those who are released without having received an education. That being said‚ the purpose of this research design is to present clear and concise methods on how the hypothesis will be tested and consequently validated. People are incarcerated
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immigrants‚ particularly with the the Ku Klux Klan and African Americans. The KKK’s main goal was for a white‚ Protestant run America with a government and military backing them up to go against those of the black race within their country. Regardless of the United States being made of immigrants‚ the KKK saw the white ‘Americans’ as superior. At the same time‚ the Red Scare was doing just that‚ scaring Americans. The few Socialist Americans saw Communists everywhere in their country; albeit there
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What exactly is recidivism? According to the Pew Center on the States “recidivism is the act of reengaging in criminal offending despite having been punished” (2011‚ p. 7). There are many individuals who after being released from prison or jail that reoffend. The reasons for these individuals reoffending can range on a scale of many levels. According to Buss “the number one predictor of recidivism is employment” (2010‚ p. 10). Buss also states that “an unemployed
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Over many years there has been great debate about whether rehabilitation reduces the rate of recidivism in criminal offenders. There has been great controversy over whether anything works to reduce recidivism and great hope that rehabilitation would offer a reduction in those rates. In this paper I will introduce information and views on the reality of whether rehabilitation does indeed reduce recidivism. Proposed is a quasi-experiment‚ using a group of offenders that received rehabilitation services
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The media portrays young black males as a dangerous species which causes everyone to have a prejudice disposition. In modern society one is discriminated based on physical appearance. Awareness of African-Americans who pay a high price through the media will be continuous until it is understood that racism will continue to live in the heart until change is made (Coates‚ 2014). From the days of bygone‚ the media has spread many wrong ideas about African-Americans being poor‚ wrong for society and
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