State V. Johnson: Theoretical Analysis

Despite my wish to deny the fact, I must admit that the issues involved in State v. Johnson still occur in present-time. One personal experience that appeared in my mind during this podcast was the time a man followed me while I was alone in downtown Ashland last year. The man approached me and expressed some frightening things that caused me to run away. After I arrived back to SOU, the first person I told the story to angered me by responding with “What race was he? Was he black?” Unfortunately, the image of a black man as the perpetrator in threating events still prevails in some people’s mind today.
One reason I believe that racial profiling still exist in present time has to do with the portrayals of colored individuals as violent people in different forms of the media. Forty years after the State v. Johnson case, Robert Entman, a professor of media and public affairs at the George …show more content…
Additionally, one of the biases in criminology is the Eurocentric bias that refers to the fact that the field of criminology is influenced by views of white descents. Although the data at the beginning of the podcast led the audience to believe Johnson was the wrongdoer, we are reminded to never judge immediately about who the criminal could be and what the crime committed was from a couple small data, but to think more critically and continue investigating. To avoid falling into that situation, those studying crime must follow objectivity by being value-free and showing professional integrity (Hagan 22). After all, according to Figure 2.1 in the textbook, the amount of serious crimes committed exceed the number that has been reported to the police, and innocent people have been arrested for actions they did not commit (Hagan 21). The world of criminology is more corrupt than individuals