English II Unit IV.docx English Racism in the Criminal Justice System Columbia South

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English II Unit IV.docx English Racism in the Criminal Justice System Columbia Southern University English II Literature Review Although many people would argue that false confession is the le... ading cause of miscarriage of justice, racism is the main driver of the broken system. Racism refers to any form of discrimination directed to individuals of different races with the belief that those races are inferior. For instance, in Oakland, traffic and routine law enforcement officers are more likely to stop African Americans, search, handcuff, and arrest them compared to other American citizens (Hetey & Eberhardt, 2018). The notion that black people are problematic and have a high tolerance for pain since most of them live in criminogenic conditions like slums has been the scapegoat used by law enforcement officers to associate blacks with a crime. While white jurors impose severe punishments on blacks and mino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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