Mass Incarceration In America

To wrap up, police brutality and economic disruption are a plague towards African Americans today. However Black Lives Matter is combating that with political/institutional policies to create

(Pg. 346). As Tocqueville describes, the South needed slavery, due to the amount of labor required to reap the sows of the

Cultural study is not really a discrete approach, but rather a set of practices. These the cultural practices also providing a way for hybridization among different racial groups in this world. Hybridity commonly refers to the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonization. The cultural hybridity of a society also evolves conflicts and contradictions, cultural diversity and cultural differences, objectivity and subjectivity, and so on. This research article on “The Politics of Cultural Hybridity in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose” also explores the vivid picture of the hybrid culture, life and struggles of the African American slaves in the bicultural American society.

It’s know that in the English colonies, discrimination occurs most. Once again, the authors state, “Interestingly, black males in England face similar racial disparity in a common law justice system that also results in mass incarceration of black males. Indeed, the United States and England/Wales are among the industrial nations with the highest rate of individuals incarcerated in the world.” This comparison supports the point that the English people are the enemies. Although many notice the merciless acts, they still seem to be the largest threat.

Instead the focus was on what was facilitating it-such as criminogenic environments due to economic hardship, broken homes, and potential mental conflicts. Thus the Progressive period was more interested in the government treating rather than judging the offender, and felt that keeping one incarcerated made it impossible to rehabilitate them into normal society. Consequently, probation, parole, and indeterminate sentencing became solutions to crime. The medical model views crime as being caused by underlying psychological factors. This placed a strong reliance on psychological remedies for crime, including psychological analysis, diagnosis, and treatment of the root causes of criminal behavior similar to the treatment of a patient with a mental illness.

The broken windows theory was initiated from the idea of “order maintenance”. Order maintenance gave off the impression that the community was not the authority in control, but that it tolerated minuscule actions that encourage more serious and more violent crimes. The adoption of the broke windows theory made way for the zero tolerance policy, which simply states that no matter what the circumstances are, when it comes to crimes within the streets and discipline in the schools, punishment will be applied. The broken windows theory is used as a signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on anti-social behavior and any other additional crimes. The theory expresses that while maintaining and keeping a watch over urban environments to help

Racial Oppression by Society Introduction: Although it appeared that slaveholders had an intrinsic motivation to dehumanize slaves, society was the true cause of racial oppression. A societal paradigm can be defined an idealistic example or model that is agreed upon by the individuals of society. James Baldwin's A Talk to Teacher’s, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and George Orwell ’s Shooting an Elephant, portray a common motif in which individuals are trapped within the expectations of society and forced to commit racial crimes.

Additionally, crimes that are considered as being white collar, in which they are known in our middle and upper-classes. The General Strain Theory Robert Agnew proposed and formulated the general strain theory. Agnew’s general strain theory primarily focuses on the micro-level definitions of crime and the relationship it has with delinquency. By doing this, Robert Agnew made a notation of the effects that a person 's social environment and the position it plays in the determination of crime.

Social forms of racial oppression include exploitation and mistreatment that is socially supported. Systematic oppression of a race means that the law or police work to oppress a certain race. Institutionalized oppression refers to establishing laws, practices and customs that produce inequities based on race. Internalized oppression involves an oppressed group using the oppression they experience and using it against themselves and fellow members of their race. Examples of internalized oppression include internalized racism, sexism and

This can significantly limit a person’s potential who is facing ‘White Supremacy’. This topic is prominent within the public threw institutional racism in social media and the news. Also racialization is significant today as black people receive unequal treatment due to their different characteristics. Even though the Black Lives Matter movement is extremely important and helps in adapting society’s views on racism and how it is wrong, there is still much of it found today. Black people are a “racialized group that are singled out for unequal treatment on the basis of real or imagined physical characteristics”

In continuing this vicious cycle, it sets the stage for tragedy and further catastrophe. As a result, this creates the feeling of anxiety that can lead to pretense and creates the nature of suspicion that surrounds people. This leads to the misconception and misjudgment that leads not only to police brutality, but feeds the beast of systematic racism. It enhances the spirit of racism that is prevalent across society. Within our police departments and system of justice, the issue of police brutality has been erected in ways that disproportionately impact poor, minority communities.

Is this the role of race in criminal justice system? Is it really designed to entrap, discriminate, arrest, and imprison a mass number of the minority. To be stereotyped and “tagged” as a criminal, degrades the young community and hinders their chances of progression.

Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration–The Problem of the United States In America, the private prison industry was made for necessary profit based off of the management of prisons by large, private companies. In David Shapiro’s insightful report “Banking on Bondage”, he discusses the logistics of the United States prison system, saying “In America, our criminal justice system should keep us safe, operate fairly, and be cost-effective”. Today, the United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world, including Russia, China, and Iran.

Another reason for the mass incarceration is due to private prisons. The privatization of prison can be the driving force behind why so many American are in prison .no -one wants to go to jail but as a society that does not believe in dealing with delinquents, we tends to believe in the phrase “out of state out of mind.” So society problem seems solved when their perpetrators are out of sight. Mass incarceration has become a business and like every business it’s about profits and the bottom-line; as such, correction is no longer the goal it becomes about maintaining an inventory with humans being its capital.

Incarceration rates in the United States are extremely higher than other countries. According to Schlesinger in her article “The Failure of Race Neutral Policies: How Mandatory Terms and Sentencing Enhancements Contribute to Mass Racialized Incarceration” there are, “Currently, one and a half million people are incarcerated in either state or federal prisons” (Schlesinger). This number is very high compared to other countries. A large majority of the people incarcerated are African Americans.