Summary Of The Jail And The New Jim Crow

The Jail and The New Jim Crow both describe how our justice system is generally based on people’s conceptions of things, and how our own justice system is creating a new way of discriminating people by labeling, incarcerating the same disreputables and lower class that have come to be labeled as the rabble class.
In chapter two, of The New Jim Crow, supporting the claim that our justice system has created a new way of segregating people; Michelle Alexander describes how the process of mass incarceration actually works and how at the end the people that we usually find being arrested, sent to jail, and later on sent to prison, are the same low class persons’ with no knowledge and resources. These people commit petty crimes that cost them their

For example, Irwin points out in his observations, that most of the times the severity of the cases has nothing or little to do at the time the of the arrest; and how in reality, the offensiveness of the act is what plays a bigger role in the arrest. In other words, the people who are arrested are usually arrested mostly because of the way that they behave and the way they look. For example, according to him, corner boys, junkies, derelicts, outlaws, lowriders, gays, aliens are more likely to get arrested than any other citizen because the way they look calls for attention and the way they behave gives the police a reason for their arrest. In the other hand, Alexander says that most of the times how the system works, or at least in the case of the war against drugs, is totally random and it mostly depends on the justice system but she does agree that the looks and behavior plays a big role too. For example, according to her research, the way most of the times people involved with drugs are caught, it is because police randomly stop and search people that might look suspicious, most of the cases they are innocent from a drug related charge, but one way or another they are guilty of something which causes them to end up in jail charged with a misdemeanor just because of the way they