Discussion 2

The text offers several explanations to justify the racial difference in criminal characters as exhibited by individuals. It gives the reader several possible influencers that help to determine the behavior(S) that one exhibits. The United States criminal justice department has well documented the rates at which African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans perform violent crimes. According to the text, they perform these violent crimes due to the behavior that they have adopted from their neighborhoods; considering the colored people associations and their communities, it justifies this implication. These groups are as well vulnerable in terms of social structures whereby children are raised by either single or without parental guidance, which affects their moral behavior (Barkan & Rocque, 2018). Some of them do not attain the required education; therefore, low cognitive skills that affect their judgment social wise. They as well come from poor backgrounds and face prejudice in employment opportunities. This explanation captures almost all factors that explain the relationship between people of color and crime.

African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are mostly victims of circumstance or wrongly perceived criminals. There is always a general notion that people of color are criminals, according to history. The police service suspects two out of three as criminals. Given the fact that they are mostly found or tend to know about crimes, it implicates them as criminals or well connected to the criminals. Due to this information, the people of color are victimized due to perception and not evidence that implicates them (Quigley, 2011). They are wronged judged because not everyone can be that bad.

The law enforcement agencies should include in their curriculum while in training so that they prepare law officers to gather the evidence before prosecuting and individual entirely and should not be biased in terms of color and race. The agencies should as well treat all races equally and act in strict conformity with set regulations of their profession.

References

Barkan, S. E., & Rocque, M. (2018). Socioeconomic status and racism as fundamental causes of street criminality. Critical criminology, 26(2), 211-231.Quigley, W. (2011). Racism: the crime in criminal justice. Loy. J. Pub. Int. L., 13, 417.