According to the Prison Policy Initiative, by the end of 2016, about 2.3 million people out of the total US population of 324 million has spent at least some time behind the bars – this is about 0.7% of the population. Statistics regarding incarceration rates, placed the United States on the first place in the world in 2013. Essays on mass incarceration help students document and reflect on the causes of this phenomenon but also help understand the reasons for the witnessed racial disproportion among convicted individuals. Many essay topics are on the impact of this phenomenon on individuals and local communities and on the country as a whole, but also on ways to reform the system.
America: The Mass Incarceration Station Mass incarceration has been plaguing Americans since President Richard Nixon. As a result, lives have been ruined by the stigma around drug addicts and drug charges. Also, money lined the pockets of the greedy monsters who make money to keep...
For this paper, I intend to focus on Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which centers itself on the object of mass incarceration. Alexander’s stunning account of the American mass incarceration system pulls to the forefront...
Introduction When people think about childhood in the United States, they often think of their families. Fond memories, as well as a few harsh ones may come to mind. The reality of childhood can include some darker subjects, ideas that seem too adult for a...
The 13th significantly highlights the key aspects comparing, slavery to mass incarceration. The Jim Crow laws came about, after slavery during the years of 1877 through the 1960s. People think that the Jim Crow Laws were just a set of anti-black laws, but it was...
Critical Race Theory (CRT)CRT is a useful theory to use when critically confronting and analyzing matters of race and racism. CRT has many key elements, each that allow a certain feature of racism to be taken apart piece by piece. The main canons this paper...
My name is Angie Canas, I am currently enrolled in Hartford Public High School Law & Government. This testimony is being submitted to you the Criminal Justice System Reform Committee, to express how mass incarceration affects the community around me. Mass incarceration affects a lot...
United States has many of its citizens increased than any other country in the word. The sentencing laws that have been put in place which focus on extending prison terms as well as ensuring that repeated offenders are locked for many years have significantly influenced...
The Deliberate and Intentional Harm of Mass Incarceration The U.S. has a history of certain policy-making that has deliberately incarcerated a mass amount of Blacks and Latinos disproportionately over the course of the past fifty years. Throughout that course of fifty years, the policies implemented...
Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Economic Adversity In Doing Time on the Outside, anthropologist Donald Braman investigates an aspect of the effects of mass incarceration that is oftentimes neglected by other scholars. Through analyzing personal accounts of families with close relatives in prison...
The New Jim Crow Book Report “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” was written in by Michelle Alexander and was published on January 5, 2010. Michelle Alexander is a professor at Union Theological Seminary and graduated from Vanderbilt University. Michelle...
Introduction Felon disenfranchisement is an epidemic seen today in the American criminal justice system. Today, The United States incarcerates more of its population than any other nation in the world, with over 1 in 100 American adults behind bars, usually for minor drug offenses. With...
Mass Incarceration In regards to mass incarceration Godfrey Hodgson asserts that incarceration is the highest it’s been and is highly racialized. We are one of the highest nations in the world for mass incarceration. This assertion is supported by the following poll in which we...
Depression, anxiety and stress are among the mental health problems common experienced by people. According to the World Health Organization-Philippines 2017 global statistics, more than 300 million people are battling depression, or an increase of more than 18 percent during the period 2005-2015 (Mateo, 2017)...
Merton’s strain theory, in general, is a theory found in both sociology and criminology that states that society puts certain pressures, referred to as strains, on individuals to achieve socially accepted goals e.g. the American dream, despite having the means to do so, may lead...
I Have A Dream… Dr. Martin Luther King is a man that worked hard in hopes that one day blacks in America could have the same rights and the same opportunities like that of the whites in America. He dreamed the all colors of skin...
Even though the United States has been declining crime rates for more than two decades, it still keeps incarcerating a large amount of the population. The lack of justice from the police department towards African Americans and Latino men grows disproportionately. Mass incarceration is the...
America has been taking measures to ensure that crimes do not go undetected or unpunished. This has led to an increase in the number of people who have been incarcerated. In recent years those who are being incarcerated come from all races, religion, genders, and...
Introduction 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...
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...