The Impact of Culture and Diversity on the Criminal Justice System

This report delves into the intricate relationship between culture and the criminal justice system. It explores how cultural relativism and societal norms influence the system, examining the impacts of prejudice and cultural biases, including unconscious racial biases and stereotyping. The report highlights the correlation between ethics and equality, and the methods used by leaders to address ethical issues related to cultural diversity. It also discusses the influence of cultural diversity on reform, such as promoting multiculturalism and enhancing intercultural competency. The report draws upon the works of Ferrell (2014) and Schmalleger et al. (2014) to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Culture- Diversity and
Criminal Justice System
THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND DIVERSITY ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM

Introduction
 The impact of culture and diversity on the criminal justice system
includes:
 Biased decision
 Stereotyping
 Cognition system
 Racial profiling
 lack of cultural diversity (Schmalleger et al., 2014).

Impact Of Cultural Relativism
And Societal Norms
 The impacts of cultural relativism and societal norms include:
 There is a close relationship between social norms and law because it
determines and influences the behavior of individuals
 The principles of morality are either absolute or relativist and that
determines the behavior of parts of the criminal justice system
 Morality in case of policing is relativistic (Ferrell, 2014).

Effects Of Prejudice And Cultural
Biases
 Some of the effects of prejudices and cultural biases on the criminal
justice system includes-
 Unconscious racial biases exist in the criminal justice system
 Existence of cultural stereotype
 Shooting unarmed black officers (Ferrell, 2014).

Correlation Between Ethics And
Equality
 The correlation between ethics and equality includes:
 Both of them includes an aspect of morality into them.
 Both these aspects guide the behavioral aspects of the individuals.
 Provides an uniformity in the behavior (Schmalleger et al., 2014).

Methods Used By Leaders For
Dealing With Ethical Issues Related
To Cultural Diversity
 Some of the methods used by the leaders for dealing with ethical issues
related to cultural diversity includes:
 Individual Consultation
 Formation of policies or other regulatory guidelines
 Increment in the awareness among the general citizens among the policies
(Ferrell, 2014).

Influence Of The Cultural
Diversity On Reform
 Influence of the cultural diversity on reform includes:
 Promotion of multi-culturism.
 Promoting equal justice irrespective of cultural orientation
 Enhancing the intercultural competency (Schmalleger et al., 2014).

References:
 Ferrell, J. (2014). Cultural criminology. In Controversies in critical
criminology (pp. 89-102). Routledge.
 Schmalleger, F., Donaldson, S., Kashiwahara, K., Koppal, T., Chase, S.,
Brown, A., ... & Marash, D. (2014). Criminal justice today. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall.