Criminal Justice System Analysis

Introduction
In an ideal world, everyone expects to be treated equally. We all expect for factors such as culture diversities not to have an influence on the decisions we make. However, this has not been the case since these diversifications have a great impact on our decisions. In the criminal justice system, for example, ethical conducts have been established to assist in reducing some of the influence diversification has on decisions regarding punishments to criminals (Hames and Ekern, 2013). Nevertheless, there are some people in law who continue to take advantage of their differences to pass unfair judgments to criminals.
In a case for example where two men had been convicted of murder, manslaughter and assault the results of the case were biased as a result of the involvement of a special population. The judge for one was a woman and secondly, there was the fact that the men convicted were African-American. In this case, the results could have easily been biased due to racial and ethnic differences having an impact on decisions made. Assuming that the judge at some point was a man and that the two convicted criminals were Americans chances are that their sentencing could have been reduced to a less time other than the original 37 years. …show more content…
Most of the decisions are influenced by the difference in a social environment (Barak, Leighton, and Flavin, 2010). A community may have people from different ethnic groups; others may be from different social classes with different values and norms. Therefore when it comes to passing judgments the law at times tends to favor some people while treating the others in an unfair manner depending on their social