The Sentencing Disparity Among Incarcerated Minorities blacks and whites in the United States does not support the fact that there are more minorities than whites in American prisons. The composition of judges, juries and law enforcement officials in the justice system is a factor. The stark disparity among minorities in prison is due to societal issues such as racial discrimination, racial inequality of lawmakers in the justice system, and presumptive sentencing guidelines. Racism in American society plays a role in the functioning of the justice system. The U.S. prison population is larger than at any time in the history of the global penal system. » Nearly half of the more than two million Americans behind bars are African-American. These statistics are well known and frequently cited by white and black Americans; for many, they define black humanity.” (Ryan D. King, 2010) Since the end of slavery, African Americans were considered crime-prone and, in general, a threat to American society and were responsible for this disparity. Although this minority population has broken the law and deserves retaliation, they are ultimately a product of their environment. In a study carried out at the end of the 1920s on minority crime. the research of Thorsten Sellin in “The Negro Criminal”; a statistical note (Sellin, 1928) puts it into perspective. “Stigmatizing the crime as “black” and masking the crime among whites as an isolated failure was a practice of discriminatory views on the part of a majority white population. "The practice of linking crime to blacks, as a racial group, but not to whites," he concludes...middle of article......the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press. Edelman, British Columbia (2006). Racial bias, jury empathy, and sentencing in death penalty cases. New York, New York: LFB Scholarary Publishing LLC.Mohammed, kg (07/2010). Condemnation of darkness. Cambridge, Mass USA: Harvard University Press. Rodriguez, N. (2003). Persistent Offender Law: Racial Disparity, Structured Offenses, and Unintended Effects. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. Ryan D. King, K.R. (2010). Demographics of the legal profession and racial disparities in sentencing. Law and Society Review Vol. 44 No. 1, 1-32. Tonry, M. H. (1997). Sentencing reform in times of overcrowding. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press. Wu, J. (2011). Citizenship status, race, ethnicity and their effect on sentencing. El, Paso Texas: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.

Essay / The Sentencing Disparity Among Incarcerated Minorities blacks and whites in the United States does not support the fact that there are more minorities than whites in American prisons. The composition of judges, juries and law enforcement officials in the justice system is a factor. The stark disparity among minorities in prison is due to societal issues such as racial discrimination, racial inequality of lawmakers in the justice system, and presumptive sentencing guidelines. Racism in American society plays a role in the functioning of the justice system. The U.S. prison population is larger than at any time in the history of the global penal system. » Nearly half of the more than two million Americans behind bars are African-American. These statistics are well known and frequently cited by white and black Americans; for many, they define black humanity.” (Ryan D. King, 2010) Since the end of slavery, African Americans were considered crime-prone and, in general, a threat to American society and were responsible for this disparity. Although this minority population has broken the law and deserves retaliation, they are ultimately a product of their environment. In a study carried out at the end of the 1920s on minority crime. the research of Thorsten Sellin in “The Negro Criminal”; a statistical note (Sellin, 1928) puts it into perspective. “Stigmatizing the crime as “black” and masking the crime among whites as an isolated failure was a practice of discriminatory views on the part of a majority white population. "The practice of linking crime to blacks, as a racial group, but not to whites," he concludes...middle of article......the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press. Edelman, British Columbia (2006). Racial bias, jury empathy, and sentencing in death penalty cases. New York, New York: LFB Scholarary Publishing LLC.Mohammed, kg (07/2010). Condemnation of darkness. Cambridge, Mass USA: Harvard University Press. Rodriguez, N. (2003). Persistent Offender Law: Racial Disparity, Structured Offenses, and Unintended Effects. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. Ryan D. King, K.R. (2010). Demographics of the legal profession and racial disparities in sentencing. Law and Society Review Vol. 44 No. 1, 1-32. Tonry, M. H. (1997). Sentencing reform in times of overcrowding. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press. Wu, J. (2011). Citizenship status, race, ethnicity and their effect on sentencing. El, Paso Texas: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.

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