Criminology Theory

Criminology Theory
Answer A:
The documentary showed how the criminal justice system is biased towards the whites while having a huge number of African-American imprisoned. This documentary revolves around the racial injustice that happens within the criminal justice system, incarcerating many African-Americans on petty crimes, filling most of the prisons with them. This is shown as just an extension of slavery, which was abolished in the 13th amendment. However, this amendment has a loophole as no Americans can be slaved except for criminals, which was excessively exploited by the whites to get them to labor on small crimes. The perspective that Blacks are criminals was ingrained within the society through movies, which gave birth to public lynching and hanging of African-Americans based on the idea of them being criminals. From the start, this was just about enslaving the blacks through exploiting the amendment and portraying them as animals.
Answer B:
The new culture of control has one of the indices; ‘The decline of the rehabilitative ideal.’ This index is shown in the 13th documentary as kalief Browder hanged himself after getting released from the prison due to harsher prison conditions and no rehabilitative programs. This bad conditions of jail cause desensitization within the imprisoned, as shown, making them mentally unhealthy
Also, the re-emergence of punitive sanctions and expressive Justice is shown within the documentary through police brutality that is shown, which gave birth to several riots like Rodney King, Detroit riot (1967), and many other significant riots. But all the brutality was justified exploiting the 13h amendment, in the name of law and order. The expanding infrastructure for crime prevention and community safety is seen when the mass incarceration is carried out, locking down many African Americans on minor offenses. The transformation of criminology thought is seen when the prisoners, after being freed, are deprived off of all the citizenship rights, like a job, education, voting rights, etc. as they are seen dead by the state. The politicization and the new populism is seen as APEC joined itself with the private owners, nearly privatizing several laws that pass, declining the expert opinion and making it a profit-making system. America’s president always had this thing for maintaining the law and order for which they ordered mass incarceration, showing changes in the emotional tone of crime policy.
Answer C:
US courts are more judicially independent than Canada’s, as the US has a very complex structure of the judicial and appeal system. This can be seen in the documentary where not all the cases come to trial, many are settled through a plea bargain, so people accept the plea bargain for the crime they haven’t even committed only to be released early. If the plea bargain is not taken, the courts punish with a harsher verdict, which makes it inevitable for minorities like African Americans, who are exploited the most through the use of the system, to accept it and be labeled as ‘criminal.’ In Canada, the court system is quite simple, which doesn’t allow for complexities and exploitation as all the major cases are dealt with in the supreme court of Canada and not the provincial governments, with lesser autonomy and independence.
Answer D:
Incarcerating a family member means incarcerating the entire family, and how the minorities are treated within the criminal justice system is very inhumane and should be altered to develop equality within the criminal justice system. The entire system’s focus is profit maximization and not providing Justice. There should be equality for all the ethnic and racial groups, treating the criminals based on their crimes equally. The new managing style and working practice should incorporate humane ways with dealing with the criminals with giving every criminal a chance to trial against the plea bargain that they receive currently for the crime they never committed.