Crime Case

Crime is one of the most difficult things to deal with when it comes to minorities. According to Guenther “ The criminal justice system in unfair, harsh, and unjust”. Within society there are many stereotypes that the workers for the criminal justice system follows. Now a days people just use the criminal justice system to make themselves known. One of the many things they take into account is politics, social rank, economi rank, and ,even though it’s a bad thing to consider, race. But, there are some people who don’t believe that the criminal justice system is “unfair, harsh, and unjust”. There are many problems when it comes to the criminal justice system, but some more than others. Within society there are many set stereotypes on certain minority groups. Since there are set stereotypes on certain minority groups, the criminal justice system usually follows these stereotypes. A lot of these stereotypes focus on race. For example, there are many reports of people being stopped by a police officer just because of their race. According to a reporter in New York “Authorities accused Daragjati for falsely arresting a black man.” Then, there was another report that the san francisco police department have been falsely counting the number of minorities in their jails to make it seem like there were less minorities than there actually was. There has been many set stereotypes within society which has lead to the “unfair, harsh, and unjust” criminal justice we have today.

Many stereotypes we think of start and end with race. But, there are other stereotypes like a persons social ranking, a person's educational rank, a person’s sexual preference, or the way someone looks. Not only is the criminal justice system “unfair, harsh, and unjust” the way they hire future employee’s is stereotypical too. At first they wouldn’t allow homosexuals to become an officer, because they thought that they wouldn’t be able to get the job done. The people within the criminal justice system also thought that women wouldn’t be able to handle the job because, they weren’t “as strong” as the men in the workforce. Not only are women treated differently within the workforce, they are treated differently within the jailing system. Since our social norms don’t perceive women as dangerous, there has been an increase in women offenders. Society usually sees women as a victim of the crime “They had to hurt them for self-defense.” There are many more stereotypes leading up to the stereotypes they have today within the criminal justice system. But, that’s not the only bad thing about the criminal justice system. People can’t find