Social and economic forces in Criminal Justice System

Social and economic forces are also contributing factors to the high number of minorities in criminal activities. There is a high level of social and economic inequalities in minorities and these factors increases the vulnerability of illegal activities (Dammer & Albanese, 2014). The difference creates many challenges in several areas and the challenges acts as impediments in economic opportunity.  Minorities are underprivileged in terms of education and standards of living and this increases the rate of violent victimization since they are viewed as people who depend on illegal activities on order to sustain their lives. Minorities engage themselves in unlawful activities such as illegal drug trade thereby increasing the risk of being incarcerated.  In addition, social factors contributes to  the disproportionate numbers of illegal behavior  in that  racially segregated communities has a high a  level of  poverty,  lack of employment, social isolation and family disruption  and all these factors  lead to strong effect toward minorities (Dammer & Albanese, 2014).  A large number of minorities come from low social status as a result of race and ethnicity. Minorities live a poor life since they are poorly paid and they end up living a life-long poverty. They are also disadvantaged in terms of education and when they enter in the workforce they lack ‘job readiness’ and this contributes to job termination (Dammer & Albanese, 2014). Unemployment increases the rate of criminal activities to minorities as they become vulnerable to illegal acts why trying to satisfy their lives.

Law enforcement will not be able to racially profile since this is not the effective approach to fight crime. Despite the fact that this approaches targets the minorities, the approach does not focus on native citizens who possess contrabands (Glover, 2009).  Given the terrorism act in last decades, the approach will not work since it measures the actions in terms of race or religion done rather that the offender of illegal behaviors whether it is White or Black. Knowing that U.S is vulnerable to terrorist, a certain groups may commit an illegal act and instead of having a deep investigation, the crime may be overlooked only because it is not associated with the target group. It is important to note that this will increases crime rate since the profiling does not record the races behavior but it notices  the individual actions (Glover, 2009)..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

 

Dammer, H. R., & Albanese, J. S. (2014). Comparative criminal justice systems.

Glover, K. S. (2009). Racial profiling: Research, racism, and resistance. Lanham, Md: Rowman &

Littlefield.