The Great Lockup The Great Lockup highlights the discrepancies in the criminal justice system that is subject to study in the modern American justice system. It was evident that there was racial discrimination in the investigative process and the eventual incarceration of the people arrested. The statistics indicate that 2 percent of the whites were locked in prison while over 9 percent of Black Americans were locked up. The disparity in the racial composition of the people incarcerated based on race shows that the policy of discrimination in the police force existed and some reform needed to be carried out for correct mechanisms to be initiated for a better future to be realized.…
The primary locations in Crime and Punishment are made realistic by immersing the reader in details and the direction of the story at the same time. The Hay Market is one example where the mood of the story is captured and is described on page 9 as working “painfully on the young man’s nerves”. It describes the smells as an “insufferable stench” and filled with “drunken men”. The reader’s observations match with the emotions that should be felt throughout the story such as descending into a dimly lit bar is a symbolic way for Raskolnikov to end his innocence. The author’s style quickly brings us to these conclusions.…
VICE Special Report: Fixing the System is a documentary about mass incarceration in U.S. It follows president Barrack Obama on his historic visit to federal penitentiary. He is first us precedent to ever visit one. The report starts off by telling us about the prison population book that accrued in 1980s. Than it goes and introduces many prisoners that are currently doing time in the system.…
The National Association of School Psychologists describes zero tolerance policies as school enforced polices that mandate harsh predetermined punishments; typically involving suspension or expulsion. These polices can be implemented for a wide variety of reasons, but were commonly regarded as a solution to school bullying. Critics and scientific researchers often advice against using these polices, which have been shown to have an adverse effect on students of urban backgrounds. Out-of-school suspensions are statistically proven to deter students from receiving a high school diploma; specifically among minority males. Students who do face suspension and expulsion due to zero tolerance policies are at-risk of being caught in the “school-to-prison pipeline”.…
On the contrary, The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer’s use of force and explodes the concept of “mass incarceration.” A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that “black lives matter” than today’s data-driven, accountable police department (Mac Donald, 2016). Mac Donald gives voice so the many residents of high-crime neighborhoods who want proactive policing.…
Introduction The workplace should be a safe environment. An employee should have the ability to start their day with a fresh mindset and complete their duties to the best of their abilities. When negativity enters an individual’s psyche, their performance will change. “Lateral violence, also known as nurse-to-nurse violence or bullying, is disruptive behavior that interferes with effective health care communication and thus threatens a culture of patient safety.”…
One way that law enforcement has been altered is through the exclusionary rule. The exclusionary rule is not directly worded in the United States Constitution, but is rather an interpretation of the 14th ammendment which says, "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." This rule prohibits any use of illegaly obtained evidence to be used in court against a defendant. There have been multiple reasons and cases leading to the conclusion of this ruling. The first case refered to with this rule is the WEEKS v. UNITED STATES in 1914 when a federal law enforcement personnel entered an arrested persons home and gathered evidence to use against them.…
Zero Tolerance Policies: Creative Minds complies with the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1990 and the Higher Education Act Section 120a. Campus Police officers enforce laws regulating the use of alcoholic beverages and underage drinking. Creative Minds is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment. All staff members and administrators are subject to local, state, and federal laws regarding the unlawful possession, distribution or use of alcohol or illegal drugs. Students are not permitted to use, possess, or distribute alcoholic beverages on school grounds, nor be intoxicated.…
According to the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice, the incarceration rate of East Harlem is almost 3 times higher than the Manhattan rate and the assault rate is of East Harlem is more than twice the citywide rate According to the mapping center, in East Harlem, 1 in every 20 males has been to prison and a large portion of the convicts will come back to the same swath of East Harlem between third and park avenue. In order to keep East Harlem lawbreakers imprisoned, the state spent more than $3.5 million annually. The United states spend over 80 billion on incarceration each year. People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and others health conditions that need to address and solve.…
The United States Criminal Justice System has many problems, but one of the most prominent problems deals with the issues surrounding mass incarceration. Mass incarceration in itself deals with a multitude of problems. The main problem that I am going to focus on is the incarceration of low level offenders. In the United States 1 in 5 incarcerated individuals are locked up for a drug offense (Wagner 2017).…
The incarceration of criminals in the United States has grown at a rapid pace in recent years in due to measures that were taken in order to control the high crime rate, which caused a mass incarceration of criminals. Mass incarceration creates many problems within the criminal justice system, some of the problems derived from mass incarceration are racial discrepancies that affect those being incarcerated and the communities that they come from, mass incarceration has also created budget strains in governments due to the high cost of mass incarceration (Crutchfield et al., 2015). Over the years’ incarceration in the United States has increased unprecedentedly. In 2014 the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that more than one million and…
Zero Tolerance Policies: Preparing School-aged Children for Prison The implementation of the Zero Tolerance Policy in in the early 90s created a whirlwind of issues; mainly that it did more harm than good. This policy was originally aimed to make schools safer by penalizing any student caught with drugs or weapons. This sounds like a good thing; however, through a lot of revisions and revisiting this policy, it became clear that any minor indiscretion would receive the same punishment a large offense would. Another issue surrounding zero tolerance is the class base and racialized nature; this policy contributes the criminalization of young black and Latino students.…
Conventional wisdom has it that once a person has reached adulthood the chances of being bullied is almost nonexistent. Unfortunately, the chances of being bullied as an adult is just as common in childhood however the behaviors of a bully may not be as obvious as that of a childhood bully. According to The Workplace Bully Institute the reasons for bullying in the workplace 35% of adults experience bullying in the workplace. Reasons for “1.…
There are numerous practices that are used in the criminal justice system. Professionals need to determine which theoretical approaches works best to help the system. Searching empirical studies and then utilizing that information can help determine the best theoretical practices. Correctional facilities should use different practices for restorative justice, crime prevention, and corrections to improve our criminal justice system. Defining different theoretical approaches can also improve rehabilitative services in correctional facilities.…
Liberals see crime not as a product of individual moral failure but as the result of social influences (Currie, 1985). The root causes for crime is unemployment, racial discrimination, and government policies that work to the disadvantage of the poor. Liberals believe that the way to reduce crime is to change the social environment. The due process model reflects that police powers should be limited to prevent official oppression of the individual.…