Racial Disparity In Criminal Justice Case Study

In the article “The impact of Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System” found on sentencingproject.org states that racial disparity in criminal justice system has lead to mass incarceration of minorities. Such disparities are deeper and more systemic than explicit racial discrimination. Disparity and discrimination in the criminal justice system causes lack of equality based on the certain individual’s color of skin and background. We live in a world where discrimination and disparities should no longer exist but unfortunately they do. People around us are the ones who make the world what it is today therefore discriminating someone for the way they look and not looking deeper into one's personality is very immoral and unethical.

The criminal justice system has numerous actors within its organization, police, prosecutors, judges, and jurors. Whose decision and judgement has a significant impact on the defendants. Discrimination and disparities are always visible even within the criminal justice field because each individual in the field has their own attitude and beliefs regardless of what the law states. There are many forms of discrimination related to criminal justice, such as religion discrimination and race/color discrimination. While Black Americans make 12% of U.S. population yet they make up 68% of prison inmates. African-American males are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white males and 2.5 times more likely than Hispanic males.

If such trends continues, one of every three black American males born today will expect to go to prison once or more in his lifetime. The prison population is overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately black. Because, most of the defendants cannot afford the bail neither their families, due to the socio economic they are in. America’s criminal justice system is marred by a startling and unfair impact on marginalized communities. People of color are arrested, sentenced and incarcerated when compared to white people accused of similar

criminal justice system, African Americans tend to be the victim of this punishment due to their race and class. defendant convicted of killing white victim is more likely to face death penalty than those convicted of killing non-white victims. The reason behind the racial disparity is that there is a problem in policy, implicit biases and structural disadvantages. The impact of race on capital sentencing is astonishing, since 1976 the U.S. has executed thirteen times more black defendants with white victim than white defendants with black victim. While criminal justice department claim they are color blind Such statistical states they are not color blind instead they are biased and not caring about the African Americans and minorities. Disparities in the criminal justice system are in part a function of the interrelationship between race and class and reflect the disadvantages faced by low-income defendants. This can be seen most prominently in regard to the quality of defense