Criminal Justice Policy and Practice

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Based on literature surveyed, this research paper compares and contrasts disparity and discrimination as they relate to the criminal justice system. The paper concludes that racial disparity in the criminal justice system is one of the most challenging problems facing American societies today because the existence of that disparity challenges the basic values upon which the criminal justice system rests.

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"Although overt race discrimination in criminal justice processing appears to be a problem restricted to specific spatial and temporal contexts, the fact remains that racial disparities in serious crimes have reached a critical stage in the United States. Homicide currently is the leading cause of death among young black males and females, and the majority of persons in state and federal prisons are black (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1995). With such enormous disproportional in sanctioning, it should be of little comfort that most of the disparity is a result of differential involvement in non drug criminal offending."

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