...In today’s world age, race, and crime are very popular topics. Everyone is accusing each other on their color and race. As a human being I think we should all be treated equally no matter who we are or what’s our background. In the United State African Americans and Latin Americans have a highest rate of crime but, that does not mean if they were all treated equally by the law. Racism is still very much a major part of our society. Growing up in NY I always knew that there were racist people, but I never knew how the racism actually affected our society and how strongly it influences such things as government funding for education and housing developments. Racism and prejudice always seemed secondary to me. I always knew that this country had issues with racism, but I never imagined that it affected serious issues so heavily. Minorities in this country are put at a greater disadvantage than whites. Many minorities, especially those that do not speak English as their primary language, have to deal with inadequate housing, underfunded school districts and the everyday struggle of discrimination for their differences and beliefs. Most people believe that black and Hispanic people simply commit more crime; the situation is actually more complex. Research suggests crime exists across all societies; it is the type of crimes committed that varies. Those who are victimized by crime are the lower economic levels of society. I think it’s a lack of knowledge and we only...
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...Emerging Research or Policy Issue Related To The Study of Race, Crime, and Juvenile Justice. Ronita D. Hemingway CRJC 352 Special Problems in Criminal Justice Professor Lori Guevera July 7, 2014 The most important emerging research or policy issue related to the study of race, crime, and juvenile justice system is the appropriate actions in the handling of juveniles. Since the start of the juvenile court in 1899, programs and policies have been implemented. Even with the policies and programs that were implemented to deter juveniles, juvenile crimes are still major social issues within our society. As some research has pointed out, kids who display delinquent juvenile behavior early in their youth stages are at a greater risk of offending within their adolescent years. When it comes to race, crime, and the juvenile justice, violence, substance abuse, and mental health are the three main issues that should be focused upon on when dealing with male and female delinquents. Individualized rehabilitation treatment was a highly recognized policy and practice during the 1970s and 1980s. This model focused on the placement of juveniles, who offended, to be placed in a setting that is community-based and less/non-secure. In 1960, the rights of juveniles had rose, which included due process. Due process gave juveniles the right to counsel and their protection against self-incrimination, in which juvenile courts started performing in the same manner as adult courts. Other form...
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...In Heather MacDonald’s article “Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race: The New York Times Is at It Again” she alludes that the New York Times is not keeping the public informed of crime rates. Instead, the Times is more interested with “giving specific racial breakdowns of every aspect of police behavior”(MacDonald). She feels that the New York City Police Department is unable to do their job without having to face allegations of racial disparity. Ms. MacDonald indicates that the reason crime rates are higher amongst minorities than whites is not because of racial prejudices. She says it’s because the vast majority of crimes occur in minority neighborhoods by minority criminals against minority victims. Therefore, this drives police officers to those areas to arrest the individuals committing crimes. In 1994, under the New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the proactive policing revolution began. The idea was to remain visible in so called hot spot areas to help prevent crime from occurring. This gave police officers the authority to question anyone that appeared suspicious. According to MacDonald, due to the implementation of this policy “over 10,000 black and Hispanic males are alive today who would have been dead,” but this type of information does not make front page news. It appears that information concerning the positives associated with proactive policing is another issue Ms. MacDonald feels is not being reported...
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...Race, Culture and Crime Reports Unit 6 DB 1 Ann-Marie Cameron Cappella University Dr. Peace May 16, 2016 Annotated Outline I. Introduction A. Race and Culture II. Areas That Will Be Examine for Trends A. Crime Reports B. Statistical Evidence about Crime C. Affected Culture, Age, and Race III. Incident Reporting System A. Federal Bureau of Investigation B. National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) C. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) IV. Suggestions and Solution For A Better Reporting Data System from Law Enforcement Agencies and Community Resources A. Public Safety and Law Enforcement Agencies B. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) C. Department Of Justice (DOJ) D. Community Relations Service (CRS) E. Local Law Enforcement Agencies F. Age Groups That Will Be Affected For Suggestion Improvement V. Conclusion VI. References Annotated Bibliography FBI 2014 National Incident-Based Reporting System (2014).Retrieved from https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/december/2014-nibrs-statistics-released/2014-nibrs-statistics-released The goal of this article was to examine statistics data that was collected and reported to the...
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...Assignment Race and Ethnicity Juvenile Offenders Outline and Reference Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/cja-423-week-2-assignment-race-ethnicity-juvenile-offenders-outline-reference/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) I. Introduction II. Juvenile Offenders A. The Federal Bureau of Investigation B. Race and Ethnicity Overview C. Juvenile Justice Process 1. Arrest 2. Detention, 3. Prosecution, 4. Adjudication, 5. Transfer to adult court III. Data A. Differential rates of arrest for crime are related to race. 1. Violent crimes 2. Robbery TO Download Complete Tutorial Hit Purchase Button CJA 423 week 2 Assignment Race and Ethnicity Juvenile Offenders Outline and Reference Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/cja-423-week-2-assignment-race-ethnicity-juvenile-offenders-outline-reference/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) I. Introduction II. Juvenile Offenders A. The Federal Bureau of Investigation B. Race and Ethnicity...
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...Lawrence, a black male who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in London in 1993, there was an increasing concern about the rise in racially motivated crimes. As such the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 was introduced and contained within it the provisions for preventing and criminalising racially aggravated offences. According to section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act an offence is racially motivated if at the time of committing the offence or immediately before or after, the offender demonstrates towards the victim any hostility based on the victim’s membership or presumed membership of a racial group. Over a decade later, the Equality Act 2010 was passed and similar to the Crime and Disorder Act, it prohibits unfavourable treatment of others based on the grounds of protected characteristics such as race. This concept is known as direct discrimination and is outlined in section 13 of the Act. A person (A) directly discriminates against another (B) if, because of a protected characteristic, person A treats person B less favorably than person A treats or would treat others. The concept of direct discrimination outwardly appears to be somewhat already incorporated in the Crime and Disorder Act. Hence a critical analysis of the Crime and Disorder Act will assess the extent to which this is true. As aforementioned the Crime and Disorder Act introduced the criminalisation of racially aggravated offences, namely racially aggravated assaults, racially aggravated criminal damage...
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...Crime is predominantly an intra-racial event involving victims and offenders of the same race. Group discussion, Week 1, CJS/221 2/29/2016 Beaux David Lee During a quiet evening at home with friends, I put out the question of crime and race. Race is not unnoticed in my group as I am part of an inter-racial couple, my wife being black and myself white. We talk about race issues daily, and it is an open dialog with friends and family. The topic of crime is also talked about since we both are in Criminal justice programs but in two different colleges. The feeling that crime is mostly same race has to do opportunity, as we all agree. We as humans live in our comfort zones, with familiarity. Violent crimes tend to be done to people we personally know. This would convey the issue of same race. It is universal on the thought that violent acts are done within a community and familiarity in that community. This is also believed to be why crime is steady in the same race. Hispanics and blacks have harder times getting jobs, and thus cause friction. The feeling of neglect and loathsome can cause a desperate need and thinking. The fact that the lower class can’t afford lawyers and often use the public defenders mean they accept the fact they will not get out free or easily. We as a human look onto our own race as a safety, for example, a black woman would not worry as much seeing a black male coming into a store. She wouldn’t think twice about talking with him or associating...
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...“Crime Is Predominantly and Interracial Event Involving Victims and Offenders of the Same Race” Luis alvarado Cjs/221 11/2/15 “Crime Is Predominantly and Interracial Event Involving Victims and Offenders of the Same Race” For the past five years, crime rates has risen gradually as compared other years in the past. These alarming rates can be attributed to technology advances and moral degradation among youths and adults. Following these crime rates, there is a dire need for some analysis and research to be done with an aim of exploring the causes and factors influencing it. This essay summarizes the discussion we had with my four friends concerning crime. Crime can be described as an action that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is also punishable by law. Ideally, it can be taken to represent that illegal activities that are not allowed in the society. There are different categories of crimes such as violent offences, sexual offence, offences against persons among others. Crimes are reported each day over the media in different countries or regions. Courtesy of this, it is important to examine this statement with some key considerations “Crime is predominantly and interracial event involving victims and offenders of the same race”. With regards to the statement, more can be explored as done by my discussion group. First, crime is a universal action that has widespread in many regions and states. In most of these affected regions, cities...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Crystal Rick Juvenile Justice June 16, 2014 Debra Nadeau Juvenile crimes are unfortunate, but they do happen in the United States. The uniform crime report or UCR is compiled by the FBI. The FBI uses information sent from local police departments. Local police departments compile information based on crimes that are committed in their area, and about the individual that was arrested. The UCR are done yearly and compared to other years. This information is used to track the changes and the recurrences in crimes that are committed. The information is used to help police departments deal with crimes that are committed by a specific group of people. Juveniles are often looked at to attempt to lower the crimes committed by juvenile offenders. Using the report can allow the police to track trends in crimes committed by juveniles. By looking at the report every year the police can see the areas that have higher crimes. They can see if there is rise in males or females committing crimes. They can find treads in the changes of crimes committed by a certain race. This report can help them to better understand what changes to make and what is effective. If the police implement a plan to lower the juvenile crime rate, and the report shows that it is consistently working it can be implemented in other areas to lower rates in other areas. According to Puzzanchera (2009) “In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated...
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...Race and Ethnicity of Juvenile Offenders | Previous Page | | In this paper this author will discuss race and ethnicity of juvenile offenders in the United States' criminal justice system. First, one must understand what race and ethnicity is. According to Wilson, J., (2000), race is defined as 'one of five categories'white; black; American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut; Asian or Pacific Islander; or other. The term 'black' includes African Americans and people of this racial designation whose ancestral origin lies outside the United States (e.g., Haitians).' (p. 2). Ethnicity is defined as 'Ethnicity usually indicates a person's country or countries of origin.' (p. 2). 'Children are one third of our population and all of our future.' (Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981). What society puts into the future of the children is also what they can expect to get out of them. There is an increase in juvenile offenders, especially females. According to Wilson, J., (2000), It is difficult to pull statistics on different ethnicity juvenile offenders. (p. 2). For example, to differentiate the statistics on the amount of arrests of Caribbean blacks versus native U.S. blacks is impossible because such specific ethnicities are not recorded. Therefore, how are statistics drawn to determine the race and ethnicity of juvenile offenders? Several ways: Arrest reports, self report offending data, public records, and official data taken from criminal and juvenile justice...
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...Hate Crimes: Criminal Profile, Causes, Victims, and Minimization Abstract Discrimination and hate crimes are nothing new. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 enacted the Federally Protected Activities Law in 1969, allowing the federal prosecution of any person or persons, who because another's race, color, religion or national origin, while participating in a federally protected activity, such as voting or going to school, willfully injures or attempts to injure, intimidates or attempts to intimidate or interfere with them(18 USC § 245, n.d.). In 1994 the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was passed where in Section 280003(a) a hate crime is defined where a person intentionally selects a victim, or a property crime, to commit a crime because of race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or homeless status of the victim (28 USC § 994, 1994). The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, was signed by President Obama on October 28, 2009 as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647) as a result to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., expanding the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's race, sexual orientation, gender identity, actual or perceived gender, or disability (Weiner, 2010). As we can see, hate crimes are felonies but they are still committed every day, and sociologists continue to study what drives...
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...of hate crimes based on national origin. In Germany it was the Holocaust and the hate towards Jewish people, here in America we’ve had a history of hate against African American people now it seems that hate towards other races such as Latinos and Middle Eastern races are becoming more apparent. It's also obvious that, while Americans are always in a hurry to close our most unpleasant chapters, unfortunately, anti-Semitism is alive and well in a lot of parts of our society, whether we like it or not. The fight for women’s rights in America started before the 1920s but big changes weren’t made until the 1960’s and 1970’s. The women's movement emerged as a political force later than the black civil rights movement, but today it is equally well entrenched. Sexism is widely seen as racism's counterpart. It’s only natural to include gender prejudice under the hate crime umbrella, especially in light of the extent to which women as a group are victimized by men. Crimes against women would seem to be the most obvious candidate for recognition as hate crime. However, the intent of the person committing the crime would need to be known before it could be determined if a man commits a sexual crime against a woman. In 1994, women reported approximately 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults, almost 500,000 robberies and 3.8 million assaults. The perpetrator was male in the vast majority of these offenses it is undetermined if any of these were considered hate crimes. The Violent Crime Control...
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...Alfriz Mella Professor Gusrang Sociology 101 In today’s society, crime in the United States is no longer one dimension. Although the number of violent crimes in the United States has dropped within the last 40 years according to the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice reports, I believe that there are many factors that would determine the outcome of the fate of perpetrator. Most crimes are still committed nowadays because of one or two causes, which could be class, race, age, or gender related. This paper will summarize a crime story, and tell how the race affects the media, and the public perception of the crime. A 20 year-old active duty solider named, Tevin Geike, was stabbed to death last Sunday morning, October 6, by his fellow Army men, who are African-American, while walking at a block in Lakewood. The victim, who at the time was with some companions, an all-white male, were on their way back from the club at 2 a.m., to the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, after celebrating his upcoming discharge from the military. A vehicle carrying the accused suddenly stopped by, and the men in the car yelled at the victim and his friends, and began name calling and hurling racial slurs such as “cracker”. When Geike retaliated by shouting back at the group in the car, that’s when trouble started. The men in the car turned around their vehicle towards where the victim and his friends were walking, got out of the car, and after a verbal confrontation, one of them stabbed the 20-year...
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...In the article Victims and Offenders in Two Crime Statistics Programs: A Comparison of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), (herein after NCVS and NIBRS will be called “systems” when referencing the statistics of the nature of the crimes), the comparison of the two reporting systems for crimes are similar. These two reporting systems are a visual representation of the crimes that are reported. They do not account for crimes that are not reporting or crimes that are reported after the date. They report crime only when there is an official report, such as one by the officer that comes to the scene of the crime to take statements from the individuals. NCVS and NIBRS are only report burglary, larceny, aggravated assault, and vehicle theft. They do not report on more serious crimes such as rape or murder. Every report was different for males and females. Males where committing more crimes than female in every category mentioned above for offenders. Aggravated assault victims had more male than female. The crimes where committed against males more than females. This was reported by both systems noting that males where victimized more than females. Robbery was the same way noting that males were victimized more than females. Larceny and vehicle theft on both systems display white people has have being the must victimized out the other races. This includes white males and white females. This is broke down to head of...
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...Assignment (Part 4): Race, Incarceration, and Recidivism Nicholle Harris SOC 100 - Intro to Sociology Professor Deborah White June 15, 2014 Writing Assignment (Part 4): Race, Incarceration, and Recidivism Racism in this country directly impacts incarceration and recidivism; specifically for African American males. This is an age old issue in our country that continues to propagate itself. Our society strips away the rights of felons and they become life-long criminals. The implications of incarceration, recidivism and race directly creates quality of life issues for a large percentage of people in the country. There are several sociological concepts that apply to this theory. Poverty leads to higher crime rates. People with lower social classes are more likely to be targeted by the police. The Drug Policy Alliance (n.d) explains in the article “Race and the Drug War” that law enforcement has a “focus on urban areas, on lower-income communities and on communities of color” (para. 1). This type of targeting creates a negative view and disrespect for authority; as a result, it is more likely for crime to be committed. Macionis (2010) states that “race is closely related to social standing, which as already explained, affects the likelihood of engaging in street crimes. Many poor people living in the midst of wealth come to perceive society as unjust and are therefore more likely to turn to crime to get their share.” (p. 232). Higher crime rates in lower income...
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