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Raza (2011) and Tonry (2009) combined together discuss punishment towards the African American and Hispanic population. They Explaining how African Americans are the majority and more than half of them are incarcerated. It discuss on the racial injustice on African Americans and Hispanics being targeted as well as history and current day of imprisonment currently in the United States. These article explain more in depth how when slavery was abolished, that’s when incarceration punishment was more of a way for white supremacy to be in control. Also one of the articles spoke a lot on penal policies and how they came to be so strict and harsh. Punishments like the death penalty and life without parole for some colored individuals. …show more content…
This article discussed why penal policies sometimes change and do not change. Blaming it on the many histories, and culture of many places and locations. Each country dealth with crime with different punishments, for example, the Unites states being for the death penalty and other countries did not include the death penalty as a punishment. This article felt medium penal policies and low imprisonment rates correspond with low levels of income inequality, high levels of trust and legitimacy, strong welfare states, professionalized as opposed to politicized criminal justice system and consensual, rather than conflictual. This article also tried to dig deeper to find out why African Americans were likely to be arrested, convicted, incarcerated, and executed when compared to white Americans. Then soon learned the answer, first one being racial disparities toward African Americans rised in the 1960’s to the 1980’s. Also African Americans were more likely to be imprison, from offenses like robbery, rape, aggravated assault and homicide, and …show more content…
This article also found that locations with larger amounts of unemployment rates, and places that increase in the size or population of African Americans are more punitive places. These locations with African American population increase tend to have stricter punishment and rules. This article also argues that aggregate social conditions, and unemployment rates and changes in African American population size, plays a huge role in perceptions of African Americans as threatening to economic
Raza (2011) and Tonry (2009) combined together discuss punishment towards the African American and Hispanic population. They Explaining how African Americans are the majority and more than half of them are incarcerated. It discuss on the racial injustice on African Americans and Hispanics being targeted as well as history and current day of imprisonment currently in the United States. These article explain more in depth how when slavery was abolished, that’s when incarceration punishment was more of a way for white supremacy to be in control. Also one of the articles spoke a lot on penal policies and how they came to be so strict and harsh. Punishments like the death penalty and life without parole for some colored individuals. …show more content…
This article discussed why penal policies sometimes change and do not change. Blaming it on the many histories, and culture of many places and locations. Each country dealth with crime with different punishments, for example, the Unites states being for the death penalty and other countries did not include the death penalty as a punishment. This article felt medium penal policies and low imprisonment rates correspond with low levels of income inequality, high levels of trust and legitimacy, strong welfare states, professionalized as opposed to politicized criminal justice system and consensual, rather than conflictual. This article also tried to dig deeper to find out why African Americans were likely to be arrested, convicted, incarcerated, and executed when compared to white Americans. Then soon learned the answer, first one being racial disparities toward African Americans rised in the 1960’s to the 1980’s. Also African Americans were more likely to be imprison, from offenses like robbery, rape, aggravated assault and homicide, and …show more content…
This article also found that locations with larger amounts of unemployment rates, and places that increase in the size or population of African Americans are more punitive places. These locations with African American population increase tend to have stricter punishment and rules. This article also argues that aggregate social conditions, and unemployment rates and changes in African American population size, plays a huge role in perceptions of African Americans as threatening to economic