RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Written Exercise 2
CRJ 530 Written Exercise 2
Your assignment is to write a response, on your belief, if racial discrimination truly exists within the criminal justice system. Your response must be specific and you must include facts to support your position. In addition, you are to provide examples supporting your position.
Your paper should go beyond the obvious, be written at a graduate level, and must be no less than 1200 words. You must use no less than three additional resources (other than your required text) that support your position. All resources used must be properly cited using the APA style.
For credit, in your response, you must include at least three journal articles that support your information. The journal articles to be used must come from the Saint Leo University Online Library. Instructions for locating journal articles are found in the Resources section. Remember, all resources including, but not limited to, journals, magazines, and/or books must be properly cited using the APA style. Make sure that you follow the exact way to cite your references.
Answer previewAmericans have become used to the term racism due to its frequent use. Racial discrimination and racial minority status have largely drawn scholarly interest for the better part of the 20th century and to date. Racial disparity in our justice system is still a hotly debated issue, and researchers have done a lot in trying to analyze the criminal justice contact rates of various groups. Regarding our criminal justice system, there have been many instances where allegations have been made on the racial biases of the system; that the system racially discriminates the minority groups. Many researchers have collected enough data that continuously showed racial discrimination of the minorities where blacks were prone for arrests than whites (Rocque, 2011)…(1200 words)