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To Kill A Mockingbird Injustice Essay

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Ollie Cornell Mrs. Edleman English 2(H) 20 May 2024 What is criminal injustice? Criminal injustice is when a person goes to court for something and is treated/charged differently depending on their skin color or ethnicity. It has been a problem for over 100 years and still continues today. Criminal Injustice is a major subject within the novel To Kill A Mockingbird and still hasn't been solved today. How does criminal injustice play a role in To Kill A Mockingbird? In the novel, Atticus takes on a case involving a rape charge with an African American man named Tom Robinson. Going into the case Atticus doesn't believe they will win, why is this? To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930’s, otherwise known as the Great Depression. During …show more content…

This shows how bad the criminal justice system is. The judge and jury were presented with all the evidence to display that Tom Robinson should be acquitted. But because he was an African American, they presumed that he did rape Mayella Ewell because of his skin color. “Judge Taylor was polling the jury, Guilty.Guilty. Guilty.”(Lee) How does this issue persist as a topic today? In modern society, inequality in the criminal justice system is still a big issue that we still can't find a way to eliminate. Power is a privilege, and some people who are given the power to dictate someone's life use it wrong. There is a strong bias held by some people who are given lots of power. Some of these people believe that if we incarcerate minorities, it will lead to safer communities. This is a misconception as “One in three black men are expected to be incarcerated at least once in their lifetime” (Hinton) and “One in 18 black women born in 2001 is likely to be incarcerated sometime in her life” (Hinton). These statistics are mind-blowing and make us rethink how we treat minorities in our society. This doesn't only harm Black people themselves, but it leaves an unfair picture of how

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