Political Correctness In The Criminal Justice System

Our Criminal Justice System here in the United States was created around the 17th century and composed of the police forces, courts, and the corrections. Although America’s Criminal Justice System has been around for centuries, it changes with laws and customs we put forth in our society. In order for our society to run peacefully, we have to establish new laws and regulations to keep people safe and living happily. This leaves Americans wondering: what is the point of our criminal justice system and does it work to the standard we need it to? Americans have a government in which we are able to vote as a unit to pass or reject laws, called Democracy. Our society is ever changing, which means new laws are going to be propositioned in order …show more content…
Political correctness is making the accommodations to avoid using terms that could potentially offend people. An example of political correctness, is not using the word ‘gay’ to define someone’s sexual orientation but instead ‘homosexual.’ Political correctness aims to prevent oppressed communities from feeling demeaned and instead feel equal. Political correctness was created with a necessary purpose but now it is being taken out of context and is interfering with our criminal justice system. Cases are not being talked about that involve minorities so that the minority as a whole is being protected, but what about the victims? In an article regarding political correctness titled, “How Political Correctness Aided and Abetted Sex Crimes in England” it talked about nearly 1,400 people being raped and treated as sexual items instead of humans by Pakistani Muslims.5 These women were never given justice and they were even put back in the arms of their abusers because society did not want to bring this case to light because Muslims are discriminated against. Political correctness has been taken completely out of context and is now preventing our criminal justice system from performing