• Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System

     

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Published: 10.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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  • Essays 'Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System', 1.
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Numerous study have found widespread racial bias in US criminal justice system. A new report issued by a coalition of civil rights organizations calls the "massively and pervasively biased" treatment on blacks and Hispanics by the US police and courts the major civil rights problem of the twenty-first century entitled "Justice on Trial : Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System." The study finds that minorities in the US face discriminatory treatment at every stage of the judicial process, from arrest to incarceration. …

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