Whether or not explicit, power and privilege shape our understanding of crime and justice. This paper will aim to answer the research question, ‘how does the criminal justice system further racial disparities among African American males in the United States? ’ In order to answer...
Throughout American history, people of color have been targeted, especially in the criminal justice system. After the 13th amendment was passed, Southern whites utilized its loophole to imprison black people for petty crimes, so they could use them as free labor. Later, Jim Crow laws...
Decades after the ratification the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the United States in various ways. Currently, mass incarceration is the greatest form of slavery in America as it was depicted in Ava Duvernay’s documentary titled “13th”. The criminal justice system in the United...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate among developed countries and the rest of the world. The question of “why” is always asked. In order to understand the answer to that question, a look back into history is necessary. There is no one specific...
Abstract The purpose of this extended essay is to answer the question, “To what extent is the disproportionate incarceration of African-American communities responsible for black nihilism?” Nihilism, according to Cornel West, is the “lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaningless, hopelessness, and...
The broken windows theory is a criminological theory, the essence of which is that explicit disorders such as crime, anti-social attitude, and civil disorder auspiciously affect on an urban environment which induces even more crime and disorder, including serious crime. From the time the theory...
Criminal Sociology, commonly referred to as sociology of crime relates to the study of the making, breaking as well as enforcing criminal laws. As such, the sole aim of criminal sociology is to critically understand and empirically develop while testing the several proposed theories explaining...
Before the development of theories that focused on a lack of civil order in communities, law enforcement agencies tended to focus more on serious crimes. The police force, for example, would attend to those crimes which were considered to be more severe and consequential for...
In the United States we have heard and seen crime happening right in our neighborhood and most minorities do not think of how our neighborhoods can affect our safety. Our neighborhoods can affect our safety if minor things like a broken street light isn’t fixed...
Introduction This paper will discuss about robbery. Robbery is one of those crimes that people might not know what defines robbery from any other crime. People may not know this, but there are two key factors that play in robbery. According to the book, Peace...
Background Piracy is known as the violent attacks directed against any private naval transport by another separate party on the high seas without the jurisdiction of a particular state. Armed robbery, similar to piracy, is the same violent attacks but in territorial waters under a...
Commonly, robbery is said to be the action by which a person takes the property which is possessed by other person, by way of force or threatening. In legal perspective, robbery was defined by Mukerji J. in Karali Prasad Dutta v The East India Railway...
In “Consider the Lobster” David Foster Wallace is given the opportunity to write a review for a magazine, Gourmet. Which is meant to cover the Maine Lobster Festival held in the summer of 2003. However the review was nothing like expected, instead it was more...
The definition of political correctness says, “The term political correctness is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.” Political Correctness is idealistic at best, but the problems with these ideas...
The definition of the second amendment has been an ongoing debate over the past few years. Most people are debating this issue because they want to know whether the states have actual power to interpret the Second Amendment. Many people have interpreted the second amendment...
Although the 2nd Amendment is only 27 words in its entirety, it has been the focus of controversy many times in the last 223 years. In 1791 when the second amendment was added to the bill of rights America did not have a well put...
Few topics provide more polarising opinions and heated debates than the topic of gun control in the USA. Established in December 1791, the second amendment states: ‘A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep...
With different interpretations of the Second Amendment, as well as different opinions on it whether people want to support it or abolish it can come different questions on why it became an Amendment especially the second of them all, as well as questions on who...
“Terrorism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes”. John Brown was a slavery abolitionist who used violence as his method of eradicating slavery. He grew up very religious and was taught by his father to hate slavery because...