Racial Disparity In Criminal Justice Case Study

Charting the Shocking Rise of Racial Disparity in Our Criminal Justice System

The police, the courts and corrections are the three components that form the criminal justice. These components follow each other. The purpose of the criminal justice system is to take law violators and giving them reasonable punishment for their actions. The system is meant to ensure that justice is ensued by providing punishment as a consequence of crimes committed. Not only does the system punish law offenders, but it also has the mandate of protecting the innocent as well as providing justice to offenders because they also have rights that should be observed.

Justice refers to the fairness or the principle of moral equity (Ingraham, 2015). Law and crime are intertwined

Many scholars as my respondent noted used such terms as exceptional, mass incarceration or “The New Jim Crow”, to describe the extreme way in which the country tries to control crime in America (Ingraham, 2015). Not only has the country extended the number of people convicted and incarnated but also there has been a significant extension of other ways of controlling this population. This other involves innovations of other tools and mechanisms to put the people under surveillance or keep them connected to the criminal justice system (Ingraham, 2015). For example, there has been an increase of accountability courts such as drug and alcohol, mental health and family courts where people are not necessary incarcerated but where they are supposed to report to these

The justice criminal system is supposed to be about fairness whatever the outcome of the sentencing may be (Ingraham, 2015). It is not a system of vengeance but a system of justice but the two examples show lack of that. The American Criminal Justice System should therefore behave more like a justice system in its Policy Statements and in fulfilling its mandate.

There has been an over representation of how people of color such as the Latinos, Black-America or the Native Americans people are impacted or affected by the criminal justice system. For example according to most recent statistics where 1 in 87 whites are behind bars, 1 in 36 Latino men and 1 in 12 African American live behind bars. This shows that there is a huge dis proportionality in conviction and incarnation y the American Criminal Justice System

(Ingraham, 2015). My respondent concluded by stating that there are dramatic economic consequences associated with these incarceration and mass conviction for families, communities and nation as a