Racial Discrimination In Prison Systems and Criminal Justice System

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Racial Discrimination In Prison Systems and Criminal Justice System

I will be talking about the racial discrimination that is shown in prisons and the criminal justice
system. I will talk about the ladder of it and how racial discrimination is involved throughout the
whole way from being arrested by law enforcement to being incarcerated. It is proven that in
urban neighborhoods that there are more arrests which is where African Americans and
Hispanics mostly make up. Also the current make up of prisons are blacks where it is six times
as many whites and Hispanics where they are three times as many as whites. The articles I will
use show the statistics of it and also explain how there is systematic racism in the criminal justice system of America.
1. Miller, D. W. (2020). Discrimination, Discretion, and Iowa’s Packed Prisons. Iowa Law Review,
105(2), 901–946.
2. Enders, W., Pecorino, P., & Souto, A.-C. (2019). Racial Disparity in U.S. Imprisonment Across
States and Over Time. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 35(2), 365–392. https://doiorg.nsula.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s10940-018-9389-6
3. Beck, A. J., & Blumstein, A. (2018). Racial Disproportionality in U.S. State Prisons: Accounting
for the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Involvement, Arrests, Sentencing, and
Time Served. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 34(3), 853–883. https://doiorg.nsula.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s10940-017-9357-6
4. de Lima, T. J. S., Pereira, C. R., Rosas Torres, A. R., Cunha de Souza, L. E., & Albuquerque,
I. M. (2019). Black people are convicted more for being black than for being poor: The role of
social norms and cultural prejudice on biased racial judgments. PLoS ONE, 14(9), 1–24.
https://doi-org.nsula.idm.oclc.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222874
5. Austin, R. L., & Allen, M. D. (2000). Racial Disparity in Arrest Rates as an Explanation of
Racial Disparity in Commitment to Pennsylvania’s Prisons. Journal of Research in Crime &
Delinquency, 37(2), 200–220. https://doi-org.nsula.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0022427800037002003