Discrimination in legal justice system

The injustice in the United States criminal justice system has, historically and contemporarily, attracted the attention of sociologists and researchers alike. At face value, the criminal justice system serves to maintain order amongst the chaos of criminal cases and deliver justice for those convicted. However, there appears to be a degree of irony in labeling the criminal justice system as being “unjust”, assuming that the system truly delivers justice. Yet this is supported by recent polls…

claim any minority or protected status, quota preferences, or discrimination”. The amendment was drafted in response to changes in the municipal codes of Denver, Aspen, and Boulder which passed…

United States, we know and understand that the criminal justice system has an inequality against blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or any other ethnic group. Criminal Justice doesn’t acknowledge other race as equals. There is lack of support in the criminal justice system were many of the issues are not address and will continue to encounter many problems. Something needs to be fix, not only for the better of the present but the future too. Criminal Justice is a perfect career to whomever wants to…

injustice to women within the legal system. “Kerfol” written by Edith Warton and another work by Susan Glaspell, the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, were also attacking the inequality of fairness under the law for women. “Trifles depicts an unequal trial of strength between the male prosecution story and the female defence story, in which the female protagonists hide the emerging defence story to avoid incriminating the accused” (Wright 260). The lack of justice guaranteeing protection for…

According to legal scholars, the minority communities, and racialized groups have certain specific legal concerns. These include damaged esteem, violence and increased risk of prosecution. As such, they have higher anxiety and stress levels, and might easily be depressed or have suicidal thoughts. The role that culture plays cannot be underscored, particularly when it comes to influencing legal behaviors of racialized groups (Phillips, 2015). Culture directly shapes how these groups communicate…

racism until now remains at large within our society. Discrimination against people of color is prevalent in many areas: employment, education, housing, and most notably: the criminal justice system. Fifty years ago, law enforcement would spray down black protesters marching for their rights with a fire hose and release dogs on them; not much has changed with the way police officers treat people of color and the way with which the legal system treats them. Though there have been advances made…

“Everyone has the right to work, the right to equal pay for equal work and the right to a decent income and working conditions” as stated by Universal declaration of Human Rights. Majority of us often proceed with our lives without giving a second thought to what might happen if someone completely rob our freedom of speech refraining us from fighting for what we love. Fighting for what we believe in. The very thing that thrives us forward. We often take it for granted that most of us have the…

rights in the American legal system is the lack of universal application and concrete statutes to protect the rights of adolescents. While it is universally acknowledged that children can commit adult acts with adult consequences there is rush in the legal system to label them as adults. More pressing is once juveniles cross over into the adult system their remaining actions as juvenile can be considered, and punished, by the adult system without juvenile protections. Due to the legal ambiguity…

Colorblindness,” the author makes a case that modern African-Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system. This includes African Americans who are incarcerated in prisons and jails as well as those on probation or parole. Alexander claims that there are more African Americans under the thumb of the criminal justice system today than were enslaved in 1850. Moreover, discrimination against African Americans is also at an all-time high in the housing, education, and employment…

social justice and equality from LGBT people is federal nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT community. Even though popular media sources from both sides of the issue try and frame this as an issue about the right of LGBT to feel non-threatened in their workplace or the rights of individuals business owners to run their businesses without fiscally harmful government regulation, these sides ignore the ideas that if federal protection are mandated, it will not solve de facto discrimination, …