"Shock incarceration" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 25 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    According to Michelle 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

    Premium Race Black people African American

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Culture Shock in Japan.

    • 1443 Words
    • 5 Pages

    and anxiety affecting a person suddenly exposed to an alien culture or milieu. There are many different ways to experience culture shock. It can be experienced across the world or as near as one’s backyard. Many Americans would venture that they consider themselves very culturally accepting. Often‚ when these same Americans travel abroad‚ they experience culture shock. It is not always a negative thing. Often to some American coming to Japan and adjusting to life in Japan can be difficult‚ since even

    Premium

    • 1443 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children‚ Families‚ and Communities Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration Creasie Finney Hairston‚ PhD Jane Addams College of Social Work University of Illinois at Chicago December 2001 [ Project Home Page | List of Conference Papers ] Contents * The Importance of Family Matters * Family Definitions * Financial Difficulties * Parent-child Relationships and Children’s Care

    Premium Family Prison

    • 7598 Words
    • 31 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    deserves equal and consistent judgment in the court of law. African Americans have a high incarceration rate because of the heavy focus put on inner city communities‚ the profiling done by police officers‚ and are often not given equal trials in court. In court‚ minorities are incarcerated for the same crimes as Caucasians

    Premium Race Black people White people

    • 1366 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Injustice of Mass Incarceration Studies have shown that over time more people are serving time in prison than ever before. Incarceration statistics are proving serious amounts of disreputable behavior from the American criminal justice system. Being incarcerated has major effects on the psyche of inmates. Mass incarceration‚ also known as hyperincarceration‚ is becoming progressively worse of an issue for minorities in the U.S.‚ particularly African Americans and the lower class. A frequently

    Premium United States Prison Criminal justice

    • 1625 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    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.

    Premium Race African American Crime

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    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

    Premium Prison Criminal justice Crime

    • 384 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    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

    Premium United States Prison Criminal justice

    • 1318 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    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

    Premium United States Race African American

    • 1988 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    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

    Premium Racism Racial segregation African American

    • 1378 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 50