Introduction There are many social institutions and systems that an individual has a potential to interact with at different times during their life. One of these many systems is the criminal justice system which can be viewed as both a social institution and a system. A crucial subpart of this system is the juvenile justice system. Both systems can be regarded as a multifaceted assemblage of various agencies and procedures traditionally established by the government. It is set up with the purpose of
are codified into law and acts on behalf of the criminal justice agencies. Guidelines are created to prevent and or reduce deviance are strictly based on what a community considers to causes deviance. However, criminology is the scientific study of the causes
during their life. One of these many systems is the criminal justice system which can be viewed as both a social institution and a system. The criminal justice system can be defined as the system of law enforcement that is directly involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of criminal offenses. (Criminal Justice System). A significant subpart of this system is the juvenile justice system. Both systems can be regarded as a multifaceted
conditions that create negative consequences for groups of people, manifesting in our social environment and then creating physical consequences. Social problems are birthed not only from current social attitudes of groups that hold power, but also the structural circumstances that are built and maintained out of them. Poverty is distributed disproportionately in the U.S., among racial groups in particular. For example, while White Americans represented the largest proportion of the United States in poverty
The documentary “Dark girls” begins with a guy who is asking a little black girl why she does not like to be called pretty black girl to what she responds that she is not black. For some people there is stigma in the word “black”. It has a negative connotation; it means to be ugly or dumb and not only for the little girl mentioned above but for all the little kids interviewed in this documentary. Many of these kids were asked to point at the smart kid or the pretty kid while looking at pictures
regulating prescription drugs or white frat boys using meth. Drug crime in this country is understood to be black, and it is because drug crime is black in the public’s mind that no one has cared about what happens to drug criminals, at least not the way they would have cared if the criminals were white. It is this failure to care across color lines that lie at the core of this system of control and every racial caste system that has existed in the United States or anywhere else in the world. Looking at