Discrimination in legal justice system

The Supreme Court made the right decision in striking down section 4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The United States has come tremendously far in terms of preventing voting discrimination since the Act was implemented. The original goals of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) were centered on abolishing the use of literacy tests, eliminating good character requirements for immigrants, terminating poll taxes, and authorizing national examiners to supervise the area’s voting policies (Fife 22). All…

open to any major news source and see people claiming discrimination of some sort. Previously I analyzed a photo of a colored man drinking from a water fountain that was old and grimy. The photo barred two signs hanging over two complete different water fountains. The signs barred the words “white” and “colored”. With that analysis in mind, I looked to an article that was closely related to present times related to discrimination. Discrimination is described as, “the practice of unfairly…

To talk about the state of law in America is to mention some of the issues the judicial system face. In my opinion, the biggest problem that our American judicial system face at this present time is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration has increased over the past forty years in the United States, ending in more people being locked in jails and prisons than ever before. In my opinion, the number one cause of mass incarceration is the war on drugs the United States has been fighting since…

Indigenous Australians are grossly over-represented in the criminal justice system. However, the true extent of this over-representation differs between individual areas. Despite indigenous Australians only making up two per cent of the population, they accounted for over twenty seven per cent of the total prison population in 2014 (ABS). This high rate of imprisonment is not due to indigenous people being more likely to commit crime than other Australians, but rather indigenous Australians are…

viewed in the legal system. The legal system is made to seem equal, but what lies under all that “truth” is injustice. A society's impression or stigma on certain kinds of people can affect how those people are treated, in this instance it's a negative view that can potentially be harmful. Racial profiling and discrimination from members of the legal workforce's biased beliefs has an immense impact on people wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes.Racial profile related legal prejudice is…

A system that affected the entire public turned into a disproportionate system that incarcerate a great deal of African Americans. Mass incarceration mainly impact the poor and minorities which has been disproportionately impacted by drug enforcement strategies. Relating to family and opportunity, a widespread of incarcerated men of low income communities which has a negative impact on social and cultural norms. Legal challenges have arisen since the enactment of the three strikes law in 1994.…

‘$2.00 a Day’. Just Mercy’s Bryan Stevenson exposes some of these disparities woven around his presentation of the Walter McMillian case, and the overrepresentation of African-American men in our criminal justice system. Stevenson’s (2014) accounts of actors within the criminal justice system such as Judge Robert E. Lee and the D.A. Tom Chapman, who refuse to reopen a significantly falsified case or offer support regardless of the overwhelming amount of inconsistencies found in the trials,…

the troubling racial and class-based parallels that exist between Nineteenth Century and modern-day America. Furthermore, the account disavows the United States’ paradoxical values and demands social and economic justice. Grimes’ work offers insight as to how financial barriers and legal oppression, which disproportionately affect people of color, illuminate the exclusivity of America’s national identity. Echoing modern tales of fiscal insecurity among minority communities, much of Grimes’…

If the practice of criminal justice does not live up to its rhetoric one should not look only to the interactions and negotiations of those who put the law into practice but to the law itself. One should not look just to how the rhetoric of justice is subverted intentionally or otherwise by policemen bending the rules, by lawyers negotiating adversariness out of existence, by out-of-touch judges or biased magistrates: one must also look at how it is subverted in the law. Police and court…

Discrimination in the Justice System August 9th began as any other day for young Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri. Little did he know that walking down the street would end his life in just a blink of an eye. Officer Darren Wilson, who ruined the Brown family and took an innocent life by mistake, will not suffer nor be punished. It is moments like these when society must come to realize the obvious discrimination in the justice system. African Americans, especially, but minorities of all…