Crime in the United States

There is no reason for the United States to return to internment camps and segregation with the progress for equality ongoing, but with the rise of terrorism and racial targeting, Muslims are scapegoats in a country that is constantly undergoing change. Islamophobia, or the fear of Islam, is not the reason to justify hate crimes against millions of people attempting to live their lives. Muslims do not have the opportunity to seek justice like the Civil Rights movement groups did as Muslims are…

root of crime in the United States, in a 1997 report 80% of State inmates reported past drug use reported by Chris Mumola (1999). If the criminal justice system could reduce the number of people abusing drugs, it would reduce not only drug related crimes, but would reduce the amount of all crimes. A reduction in crime would result in a safer and more productive society. Without changing how the criminal justice system views drug addiction we will never see a significant decrease in the crime…

few decades. Since 2013, all the states within the United States have permitted the adults to carry concealed weapons by fulfilling the few requirements enforced by law. The ones who are in favor of this law think that this law is the protection of those mature adults who can use these concealed weapons on several occasions for their protection. However, those in the opposition, believe, that this law has opened gates to rapid growth in the crimes in the United States. National Rifle…

Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States over the past forty years. The number of people getting put in prison in the United States started to increase since the beginning of War on Drugs in 1982. “US is home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world's prisoners”, states the documentary 13th. There are currently more people in jail for a drug offense than the number of people in jail in 1980. The number of…

diminution of rights and privileges of citizenship and legal residency in the United States (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002). Mass incarceration provides one of the largest and most influential examples of institutionalized racism in the contemporary U.S. because of the way that african americans are systematically singled out to be searched, tried, and convicted of drug crimes and other felony offenses. In the United States there are a disproportionate number of minorities in prison when compared…

(Cruel and Unusual Punishment). The number of prisoners in the United States has climbed in 2016 to a staggering 2.2 million, up from 200,000 in 1972. A full 36 percent of those incarcerated are behind bars for nonviolent offenses. Such numbers alone should shock the moral sense, but to fully understand the nature of cruel and unusual punishment for nonviolent crimes, we must define such crimes, consider the sentences for such crimes and the injustices faced by the prisoner…

symbol of this dream to this day. The end of the nineteenth century saw a strong Sicilian emigration to the United States, including members of the mafia. They have a unique relationships with American criminals even to this day. The prohibition (1919-1933) allowed the mafia to acquire great power in the world of organized crime in the United States. In all the big cities of the United States, there were many poor districts and in all poor districts the criminal activity increased. Many…

The Merida Initiative is a partnership between the United States of America and Mexico, created to fight organized crime and violence. Based on both countries cooperation and trust we are slowly eliminating drugs and violence between the US and Mexico. The Merida Initiative is a very effective and a helpful bond that our country shares with Mexico that offers many benefits. Both the United States and Mexico are doing as much as they can to help eliminate these issues that have been going on for…

more likely to be sentenced to adult prison” (p. 3). Based on statistical data from the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, black youths by large commits more violent crimes than their white counterparts (Hanser & Gomila, 2015). As a matter of fact, “Even black civil rights advocates such as Van Jones, President Barack Obama’s former green jobs czar, confirmed the aforementioned…

suicides). The biggest argument for guns are for self-defense. People use this argument to justify why gun control would be bad when in reality guns are rarely used for self defense. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between 2007 and 2011, 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of a firearm, the least-employed protective behavior. Guns that are purchased and registered legally are often stolen and used by…