Discrimination In The Criminal Justice System Summary

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In "There Is No Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System," (Beaver et al, 2013), the author, John Perazzo argues that Barack Obama is wrong about the perspective that there's racial discrimination on the criminal justice system. According to Sternes, (September 12, 2016), every human being has to have equal justice perspective that means everyone has the same rights just as everyone does as a citizen of a nation. The discussion of equal justice perspective focuses on issues relating to race/ethnicity in different stages of criminal justice processing. It seeks to present a balanced picture of what is known about these issues from systematic research evidence. Discrimination and racial disparities persist at every stage …show more content…
Crimes can be defined using three principals for example Official Crime data; The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and Self Report Surveys. By using the three methods, illustrate the statistic of crime rates proves that African Americans don’t have a higher crime rate than other racial (Siegel & Worrall, 2014). For instance, Africans Americans has the same chance to become a robbery as white and about three time likely. Other fact is whites are offenders in rapes and assault and there's no racial pattern base on rape and assault (Siegel & Worrall, 2014). Crime rates it’s a way of counting the crimes commit not stereotyping, prejudice, and discriminate other racial using the statistics found. Every racial can commit a crime just as everyone else …show more content…
2013. According to Perazzo, Barack Obama's talk on how the society in the past decades was not affected by bias compared to this decade where there has been biased regarding African Americans which is evidenced in the article. For instance, there is between 11 percent Africans Americans representing in the United States and more so mostly 50% African Americans have entered state prison each year in the United States. Looking at the trend, Barack Obama has been stressing out on the situation that has happened and still occur, over the past two and three decades with biases increasing over the

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