Research on Social Justice Theme

Most  of  the complaints have  different applications of the death penalty, police brutality, racial profiling, sentencing disparity, and different  treatment of minorities by the Criminal  justice system. Everything that happens in court is suppose to be lawful and took into consideration, that your life could be on the line and how many years being spent could affect you and the people around you. The color of someone skin shouldn't be a reason to put them in jail but the supreme court should be a reason to send a person to jail if their in a wrong of doing illegal activities. The United States is very corrupted in my opinion and also other countries as well is manipulated by judges and their opinions of what they think people stand before them deserve in terms of how many years they could be serving if the judge doesn't come to a conclusion in which could be the right way of sending them to prison. Despite the fact that whites engage in drug offenses at a higher rate than blacks do, blacks are incarcerated for drug offenses at a rate that is 10 times greater than that of whites.

If you notice how when the same person commit same crime with different color is judged differently than the person that committed the same exact crime.The criminal justice system is largely incapable of preventing crime is that law enforcement, courts, and corrections are institutions; they respond to crimes already committed rather than addressing the root causes of criminal behavior before they get into crime. This is not a long period of the efforts of law enforcement or corrections officers that works in prison. The criminal justice system simply does not have the resources, and people with support or the abilities  to deal with most  of criminal behavior. Over the past several years, the use of race by law enforcement,  in their policing skills has received a big amount of  attention across the country. The difference in talking about racial profiling has always been on police departments practices examining whether police have targeted drivers based on their race or ethnicity.

A lot of sources that evidence has suggested that some departments may be treating drivers of some races or ethnicities differently than white drivers. Using different definitions have made  the debate over racial profiling a little bit known. A small percentage among these means that people are often discussing different types of police practices, and behavior. The fact remains that racial profiling began long ago before their powerful authorities seen on highways and city streets alike where minorities are stopped.

This country has a history of profiling minorities, from the inhuman enslavement of millions of Africans during the period  of slavery, to the unlawful imprisonment and minorities around the country have consistently been the targets of racial profiling. The problem is far deeper than just black and white; its roots lie at the economic, social, and political disparities that African Americans enjoy over minorities in this country. These differences are a result of a system based on class status and, two attributes enjoyed far more widely by the mainstream population than minorities. For centuries race relations between people of color and white people in the United States have been strained. From slavery, to Reconstruction, to post Reconstruction to Jim Crow, privileges for white people and discrimination against people of color have been the rule, not the exception.

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