Racial Disparity in the Correctional Population

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Social Issues

 

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Melanie N

 

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September 8, 2015

 

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University

 

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"The American Correctional Association acknowledges that racial disparity exists within adult and juvenile detention and correctional systems. This contributes to the perception of unfairness and injustice in the justice system ("ACA Policies and," 2004)." "Blacks comprise 13% of the national population, but 30% of people arrested, 41% of people in jail, and 49% of those in prison...
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Nationwide, blacks are incarcerated at 8.2 times the rate of whites (Human Rights Watch, 2000)." This difference in proportionality does not necessarily involve direct discrimination; it can be explained by a number of combined factors. Correctional agencies do not control the number of minorities who enter their facilities...
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