African American Men Incarceration
Cultural Diversity
Socs-350N-18142
September 13, 2015

African American Men Incarceration

Introduction

Too many African American males are incarcerated in comparison with their counter parts, Hispanic males and non-Hispanic males. The increase percentage of African American incarcerated for the same crime a Hispanic male or non-Hispanic male may have committed is unbelievable.
I chose this topic because there are a lot of factors why African American men between the ages of 25-29 is incarcerated. We must look at racial profiling, where the majority of the time an officer will stop a young black man without cause or provocation. Another issue is the type of community or environment in which an African American man lives in. An African American man who lives in low-income housing tends to attract more attention from police officers. Poverty plays part in incarceration. Education can be a plus or minus for an African American man it depends on how you look at it, meaning if you are not educated or had the chance to finish school, there’s a 50% chance you will commit a crime resulting in incarceration. Ergo, if you are educated and living in an upscale neighborhood, has a job, drives a nice car, you will become a target for the police to stop and frisk you, again checking for crime because you are a young black man. Family also plays a major role why African American men are incarcerated. Most African American household is a single household, where the mother is the breadwinner and the father is absent. An Absentee father leaves the young African American without a role model, which will encourage that young man to look for a role model outside the home that can lead to a crime resulting in incarceration.
This topic is important to cultural diversity because African American men, Hispanic men and Non Hispanic white