Discrimination in legal justice system

immigrants. But when looking at Canada’s immigration history, you can easily learn that many ethnic groups had to assimilate when they moved to Canada. Not only did immigrants experienced assimilation, they also experienced marginalization and discrimination. Although assimilation is still present in today’s society, multiculturalism became the dominant ideology and an important value of Canadians. The effects of assimilation allowed Canada as a country to learn, develop and progress as a…

There are many cases of domestic violence on a daily basis, but there are few cases reported in the relevant authority. There are many types of domestic violence but most people cannot distinguish them because of inadequate information about the legal requirements. Domestic violence Definition of terms The definition of domestic violence is not specific because there are several mitigating factors that influence a violence…

number, one in 35 people in the United States is under some type of correctional control, from jail, parole, or probation (ACLU). Why should you listen to me on this issue? Well, I am not the only one calling for a change when it comes to our prison system. Reputable organizations such as the NAACP, American Civil Liberties…

includes race, gender, culture, and socioeconomic levels. Legislative Intended Impact: o What was supposed to be the result?  To hold offenders accountable with programs to provide services for the survivors of such violence, improving the criminal justice response, ensuring that survivors and their families have access to the services they need to achieve safety and rebuild their lives. As well as to change…

Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was written by civil rights litigator, legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander. The book discusses the history of race and mass incarceration in the United States specific to African American man. Alexander argues, “We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it” (pg. 2), there has been a rebirth of a caste system in the form of mass incarceration since the years of slavery, Jim Crow laws and black codes. This…

There is a disportionate amount of African Americans serving time in our criminal justice system. Though, throughout our nation's history, we have been racially divided, the segregation has taken a new form in modern times with the extensive imprisonment of minorities. There are three primary reasons why African-American are overrepresented in American prisons, first the Civil Rights Movement provided a justification for the link between minorities and disorder. Additionally, the imprisonment…

Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of this year, the US Supreme Court has still been operating with eight justices instead of appointing a ninth. The reason for this being a lack of response from the Senate to President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. This failure to acknowledge the President’s motion has sparked outrage across the country, bringing rise to the Constitutional provisions associated with the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. Several issues…

its setting based in 1935 about an all-black debate team in Texas that attempt to win competitions and have their voices heard and names known, while witnessing racial discrimination all around them. “A Few Good Men” and “The Great Debaters” portrays the effect that argumentative speech can have on changing injustice legal systems. To begin with, a similarity between the movies, “A Few Good Men” and “The Great Debaters”, is…

mistreatment of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest United States during the time period specified above. It will address not only individual cases of violent discrimination, but also structural discrimination that affected the political and economic status of Mexican-Americans during this period of time. The second part will focus on how the discrimination against Mexican-Americans caused the development of Mexican-American communities and mexicanidad. These communities embraced their Mexican…

sophisticated men of times. It was meant to last only some generations, yet it has been proven that the Constitution is one of the most important documents of the United States. The Constitution was created in order to establish “a more perfect union, justice, domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity” (145). The Founding Fathers, wanted a strong government, but they also wanted a…