Free Critical Thinking About Race And Crime 3rd Edition By Gabbidon And Greene

Prior to 1960, the US experienced several crimes that can fundamentally be attributed to the racial diversity that exists in the US. This paper offers a quick review of the relevant facts surrounding racial prejudice and the policies that were put in place to curb this barbaric culture. Additionally it will look at why the criminal justice policies of transitional America were the best method for managing population increase and the diversity as well as why the policies were not the best. Furthermore, it will explore how the reading links to the philosophies of criminal justice and diversity. It will finally provide solution to the prevailing problem and strive to support the recommendations using empirical evidence.
The US is a state composed of various ethnic groups such as the Hispanic, blacks, whites, Native Americans and Asian-Americans. Despite this, it has to be united and stand together for the benefit of the people. The text provides a unique experience of how various ethnic groups in the US interact with the criminal justice system, the transition that the criminal justice system underwent prior to 1960s and provides a panoramic viewpoint on race and crime.
In 1954 Supreme Court’s verdict outlawed segregated education in the case of Brown v. Board of Education was a major step in curbing racial discrimination. Additionally, the banning of creation of race-based groups such as NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the coming up of groups like CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) was a key step in trying to unite the huge American population made up of several ethnic groups. Moreover, there has been racial difference in sentencing and this has attracted the attention of the international community and various scholars. Racial discrimination is evident even in employment where Hispanics and African Americans really find it hard to get a job as compared to other racial groups. Most Africans and Hispanics find themselves committing crimes regularly and are the majority in prisons.
The criminal justice policies that were put in place were the best for managing the diversity. People are known to fear the law and are not likely to do what the law forbids. Additionally, the increase in population could not be managed in any other war rather than jurisdiction.
Those who thought the policies would solve the problem once and for all were greatly misled. The justice system is prone to abuses and any law that has been put in place might be compromised by the jurists. The growing population too had a mindset that one’s race is of utter significance as it differentiated one from people of another race and social classes too. This therefore made it hard to solve the issue of race by use of criminal justice policies of transition.
This reading closely relates to the concepts of criminal justice and diversity as it illustrates how the issue of racial discrimination has continued to hinder the unification and development of America as well as illustrate how the judicial system has failed in meeting the people’s expectation.
The best solution should be to create a community in which the people perceive themselves as equals and from one single race. Courts must too learn to treat people equally. In so doing, discrimination will reduce by 50.5% and a state of harmony and unity will prevail.