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Essay Questions: The Criminal Justice System
The purpose of this essay is to answer the following questions, which mainly focus upon the criminal areas together with bearing the feminist criminology in the mind.
Discuss how negative stereotypes of race/ethnicity, class, and gender are reflected in the criminal justice system. How can racism in the system be reduced or at least combated? As per some of the philosophical systems, the close and to a certain degree established relationship of crime with race/ethnicity (Hispanic, White, Black, Asian, and other ethnicities), gender (men and women), and class (lower, upper, urban, Age factor, immigrants and so on) is a prime …show more content…
Use a feminist argument to explain this increase. As far as the criminology is concerned, it is mostly androcentric. Nonetheless, as opposed to this matter, the subject of feminist criminology grows stronger slowly but surely, especially after 1960 (Morash, 2006). It is worthy to note that the feminist criminology deals with numerous issues, such as crimes and females, woman prisoners’ needs, explanation for felonious acts by females and so on. Hence, it is important to find out the reasons to study this change of surge in the rate of female participation in the criminal activities. In view of the rate of female participation in the wrongdoings, it has been shown that female’s responsibilities are increased because of the more liberated atmosphere of the equality after 1960. This leads them to fulfill all the domestic and professional commitments, which in turn, makes them burglars or thieves (white collar crimes). In this manner, inequality, gender based discrimination, frequent woman abuse in the patriarchal society, economic independence, narrow employment scope for ladies and so on factors give rise to the female sharing’s amplification in the criminal space. Some of the sources have also found that, single moms, unemployed husband, poverty, poor (troubled) family background, more muscular attitudes, victimization of women and so on dynamics play a key role in increasing women’s participation in felonious acts (Reiman,