Penal system in the United States

The initial purpose of the prison system is to “disappear” people mainly from minority, poor, immigrant communities, in order to make a business out of incarcerating them, by teaching them through schooling, that their race is a curse and that they cannot change their position in society. If you teach a child of color that no matter what they do to be successful and that they will never amount to anything, they will seek other ways to reaching that success; even if the law deems it to be illegal…

CHAPTER FOUR Conclusion and Analysis Due to the many loopholes in the legal system in many cases the stalkers is set free because of the different interpretations of the first amendment. Even though California enacted the country's first anti stalking law, the federal government has also recognized the serious nature of stalking crimes and has addressed stalking on a national level.l38 In 1993, Congress delegated the task of creating a model anti stalking…

the criminal justice structure is one of the utmost perplexing facing American civilizations currently. A lot of the racial pressures and complications in society occur most conspicuously in eminent criminal circumstances and in the alignment of the penal and penitentiary populace on a national scale. Talking about these complications is precarious for numerous…

Originally Cuba's abortion laws were subject to the "restrictive penal code of Spain" under which all forms of induced abortions were illegal (Bélanger and Flynn 15; UN Abortion Policy Cuba 2). The restrictions lifted slightly, "with the inception of the Social Defense Code in 1938, induced abortion became permissible in three situations", which were danger to the mother's life, presence of fetal birth defects, and when the pregnancy was the result of rape" (Bélanger and Flynn 15). However, by…

appealed to legislators that African Americans were better under the system of slavery than free in America. There were conservative efforts to depict African Americans as savages, violent and not to be trusted among other bigotry rhetoric. African Americans was seen as a threat due to reconstruction and the flourishing growth of African American politicians, During reconstruction there were many African Americans who served as state and local politicians. This threatened whites in America and…

In fact, according to an article written by Liskula Cohen and Matt Rotza, there should be a focus on bettering the American Penal system. They state, “...truly meaningful prison reform should focus on (a) creating racial, gender, and economic equity in the distribution of justice and (b) cranking up pressure on politicians so that they will stop finding reasons to incarcerate people. Certainly we can start with lessening offenses on minor drug charges, particularly those involving marijuana;…

penitentiary and reformatories. The American penal system, has had a punishment and restitution approach to deviant acts. For many years the United States approach on crime has been a get tough approach. This approach has led America to the highest incarnation rates in the world. Due to longer sentences, incorporating harsh sentencing guidelines, and mandatory minimum punishments. Today, more than 2 millions Americans are incarcerated in either a state facility, federal correctional facility, or…

“Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles M. Schulz. Everybody knows about Australia, but do they really know everything? First, they should know the history behind Australia. Like who were the first settlers and how did they come upon Australia. It’s very important for everybody to know about it, because it’s such a big country and it’s the only country that’s a continent too. I know it’s not the “coolest” country out there, but people would…

justice system have paid relatively minimal attention to marital rape in the USA although this kind of violence against women is prevalent in America (Bergen, 2006). The marital rape exemption had been legally acceptable in the United States for a long time; it was at least until the 1970s when anti-rape movements occurred that some scholars opposed and argued over the exemption of marital rape. In the contemporary United States, marital rape has been recognized as a crime by all 50 states and…

Kathy O’Brien states that, “Half of those jurors, no matter what they said when we questioned them when we picked the jury, believed you were guilty the moment they laid eyes on you. You’re young, you’re Black, and you’re on trial. What else do they need to know?” (78-79), implying that within the American justice system those involved in the process have an inherent and almost innate sense of racial bias that clouds their judgment when entering the courtroom. In the United States it is said…