There is a modern transformation of the world
especially in the United States where public expectations, demographics, economies, and cultures are rapidly evolving. The vibrant driver of change is the interconnection of the world through the migration of people and technology. Multi-cultural competitiveness is created by religious and intellectual, cultural and ethnic mixture due to modern immigration. There is a contribution of immigrants economically, stabilization of rural and urban economies, and minimize crime whether they transfer lawfully or unlawfully into new societies. Over the past years, there has been experienced a sheer reduction in crime in immigrant populated towns. Unpredictably, there has been also a dramatic change in increased bias, vitriol and fear, and inequality. Immigrants' involvement in crime has seen an increased stereotype and inappropriate demonization. Political disagreements continue to be caused by immigration. Prevention of crime and disorder should be the aim of law enforcement and not simply responding after the fact.
Broken Justice System
A broad collection of processes and interactions should be involved in the criminal justice systems, which include probation and parole, court fines and fees, arrest and policing, incarceration, legal representation, and sentencing. There are injustices and inefficiencies accumulating from one step to the next in these aspects and all these system aspects can be improved. Lack of responsiveness to research evidence in practice and policy-making is one subject linking all of the challenges in the criminal justice system. Many practitioners do not regard evaluation as a priority for their daily work irrespective of working diligently with limited resources, and others mind of negative results which can make them look bad and opt not to evaluate their programs (Forman, 47).
Mass Incarceration of African Americans
The African Americans and poor increased levels of incarceration are believed to be caused by the war on drugs. The aggressive street-level enforcement of the drug legislation and punitive sentencing of drug culprits mainly effects both the increased prison population and its racial disparity. Irrespective of declines in crime, the prison population remains high due to the progressively large ratio of new admissions for drugs related offenses and extensive mandatory sentences. The fight on drugs has turned its own prisoner-producing apparatus creating imprisonments rates that defy gravity and end up growing even as crime rates decrease. In recent years, racial inequalities in traffic checks have reduced on a national basis but persevere in numerous jurisdictions (Forman, 133). For inspective reasons, police officers are probable to stop black drivers and once they pull over the black people are more likely than whites to be searched and more likely to be arrested.
Effect of Incarceration
There is a benefit for every community when culprits are removed from economically and socially challenged African American society. Not only is an individual who would abuse others not being in a position to do so, but a high level of crime are wicked for the collective good of society. Neighborhoods can be destabilized by crime. An environment can be viewed as a scary and threatening place when individuals live in fear of individual or property victimization. In such space for healthy and productive social engagement cannot be attained because there is a lack of cohesion and closeness among neighbors. So, the probability of more crime is actually increased by too much crime (Fortner, 202).
Solution to Incarceration
In the case of non-violent culprits serving the mandatory sentence as a nation, we need to minimize mass imprisonment. I have come up with steps which can be taken to minimize mass imprisonment among African Americans. Increasing drug courts which serve as an alternative to imprisonment are a federal expanded program. With the goal of minimizing incarceration drugs courts offer substance abuse treatment in a court setting and respond to increasing number of drug cases crowding prisons. In addition, increasing mental health courts which assist crime culprits with a mental sickness that leads to their criminal offense. Instead of prison, they offer court-mandated treatment programs. Lastly, increasing incentives for employers to hire ex-prisoners, which is a great program to offer former convicts employment. Minimizing re-offense can be achieved through employment. In guiding released people the re-entry service can be important.
Works Cited
Fortner, Michael J. Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. Print.
Forman, James. Locking Up Our Own. , 2018. Print.
