Abstract: The paper looks at the issue of incarceration with the focus being on the amount of African Americans both male and female that are now incarcerated in the United States. The paper takes an analytical perspective in reviewing the fact that the majority of African Americans in the prison population are not there for violent crimes, but yet, African Americans contribute to the mass color of incarceration. The paper also includes discussion on how the so-called justice system has treated African Americans unfairly when charged with the same criminal offenses as those of the majority population. The paper also addresses the issue of whether or not mass incarceration of African American males is an institutional means of decreasing the African American population in the United States.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-10-23
Language: en
Type: article
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