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Racial and Economic Discrimination in the American Criminal Justice System: An Investigation of and Alternatives to Judicial Sentencing in Criminal Courts in Non-Capital Cases
My experiences as an investigator at the Public Defender Service for DC sparked my interest in this topic of racial and economic discrimination in the criminal justice system. I examine previous research and case studies ...
Released But Not Freed: The Impact of Incarceration on Post-Release Employment
This paper focuses on the disparate access to the labor market for incarcerated males of low socioeconomic status, as this is the overwhelming majority of the prison population. The very presence of incarceration, compounded ...
The Ethical Implications of Juvenile Detention Centers and the Role of Mental Health and Education in Reducing Recidivism
. . . If the nationally accepted [juvenile detention] system continues in the path it is headed on, the recidivism will continue to rise. Due to a lack of funding and often severe over-crowding, it is difficult to assist ...
Race and Welfare: The Unspoken Variable
In order to analyze racial discrimination in the distribution of government welfare benefits, one must establish whether or not such problems exists, whether and how they may be documented, whether the problem is isolated ...
Apartheid Resurrected: How American Incarceration Policies Wage War On Poor African American Communities
Clearly, determinate sentencing policies which are disproportionate in their application, resulting in increased incarceration of a specific minority group, fail to fulfill the objectives of a fair and just criminal justice ...
The Power of ZIP Codes: Segregation in Southern California, Reexamined
The ultimate aim of this study is to explore and deconstruct the myriad causes which contribute to segregation's persistence, even when no longer mandated by law as it was only a few generations ago. Within the nation that ...
The Availability of Private Suits to Enforce Environmental Justice: Past, Present and Future
For over twenty years legal and social commentators and advocates have recognized that low income and minority communities bear a disproportionate burden regarding pollution, hazardous waste siting, and other environmental ...
Anti-Poverty Policy and Race: The Need for Policy to Recognize the Continuing Significance of Race
Therefore, the goal of this paper is multifaceted. Through a historical examination of poverty and government response, some beliefs about the causes of and solutions to poverty will be explored. The paper will then turn ...
Power Structure, Minorities and the Politics of Identity: A Theory Advocating the Importance of Movements of Self Determination of Cultural Identity by Minorities in Addressing Minority Issues in Multicultural Societies Favoring Assimilation
The paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 studies how inability of minorities in societies which the dominant culture determines the groups identity takes away the minorities capacity for agency and self determinism, and ...
A Spectacular Minority: Charter Schools that Respond to the Problem of Poverty in Public Education
There are two important questions to keep in mind throughout this paper. The first of these is how "success" ought to be defined. Is it college entrance and graduation? Is it a certain type or level of occupation; that is, ...