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Report on Attitudes towards Crime and Criminal Justice

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Report on Attitudes towards Crime and Criminal Justice

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION / LITERATURE REVIEW...............................................................................3DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.........................................................................................................5HYPOTHESIS TEST......................................................................................................................8INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS.............................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION / LITERATURE REVIEW In the current times, people feel highly safe from the criminal justice system that prevailsin UK. People pertaining to all races, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation believe that policeand judiciary parties will take suitable as well as best decision according to the concernedsituation. However, it has found that there are some communities which believe that biasnessexists in the existing criminal justice system. Hence, black people has assessed need in relationto making changes in the justice system by considering events like Michael Brown shooting,death of Eric Garner in New York etc. All such incidents highlighted the level of frustration andmistrust which takes place among the people of black community. In this, for analyzing the attitude of people towards the crime and criminal justice systemdata has been gathered from 469 individuals. Hence, in this, report will shed light on the extentto which views of respondents are affected from attitude pertaining to the crime and criminaljustice system. For presenting the fair view of study, mainly two hypotheses will be developedand analyzed. On the basis of such aspect, focus will be placed on analyzing the level to whichrace forms opinion of individuals towards the crime and criminal justice system. Further, todiscover highly relevant information from the issue comparison of the current data set orinvestigation will be done with the prior evaluation. Hence, similarities and differences betweenthe current & past investigation will be made in this report. Cole, Smith and DeJong (2018) assessed in their study that situation of poor socialcohesion takes place within neighbourhood increases unfavourable perception. Hence, suchperception creates mistrust and thereby places negative impact on the level of cooperationbetween police and community. Due to the racial tension, minority groups usually consider
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police as a tool of cruelty. However, Pound (2018) analyzed in their study that whiteneighbourhood considers the belief of protect and serve. On the other side, in minorityneighbourhood initiatives regarding law and order are highly undertaken. Hence, such type offeelings creates mistrust in relation to the criminal justice system. Loeliger and et.al., (2017)depicted in their study that large number of people, in terms of race, believe that police usuallytarget their communities over others (Kappeler and Potter, 2017). Further, it has assessed fromthe evaluation that poor and black people assume highly disadvantaged to themselves. Hence,people of such racial group believes that police arrests them more frequently over others(Schmalleger, 2017). It has found from the evaluation that criminal justice system failed to givepunishment to whites for the illegal activities performed by them as compared to Latinos andAfricans-Americans. In the category of drug-offender, African-American accounts for 13-20%respectively. However, they are 3 to 5 times more likely to be arrested as compared to whiteillegal importer. By doing investigation, it has asserted that during the period of 1980 to 2013 rate ofimprisonment was increased significantly by 3.5 times. Further, adult population around 3%, inUS, was under the supervision of criminal justice (Trainor, 2017). Along with this, USincarcerate account for the 25% of the world’s prisoners. However, US population is only 5% ofthe world which shows that level of imprisonment is higher in such country. In this regard, ratioof non –Hispanic African Americans are higher as compared to others. Apart from this,unemployment level among blacks is quite higher, such as twice, over white peoples orindividuals (Bell, 2017). Moreover, unemployment rate of whites account for 4.7%, whereas inthe context of blacks it implied for 10.1% significantly. Apart from this, history pertaining toimprisonment places direct and negative impact on the health as well as employment level.
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