Thursday, November 18, 2010

The vicious circle

After reading this article it said that 99.2 percent of young people transferred to an adult facilities in Cook County were minorities. i do think that it is disturbing that there is more minorities in jail than Caucasian. even though there is more minority in jail that does not mean that they should be treated any differently. I think that most prisoners while they are in jail they go through primary deviance because when it's their first time at the jail they do not like the fact of staying in a small jail cell their entire life. So the thoughts that go through their head is they don't ever want to be put in jail and they say they want to learn from their mistakes and they don't want to make it a habit to be deviant. I think that once prisoners are locked up for a long time and they get use to their regular routine and when they are finally free they fall into temptation and are put back in jail. it starts becoming a regular routine for them and they repeat the same behaviors that led them to jail in the first place. I honestly think that our society labels deviants as being bad and not human because of some of the bad choices they make. As a society we label them as prisoners and nothing else we want the jails and officers to deal with them and we push them out of our way. 

1 comment:

  1. But looking at the statistics, does this mean that there are no Caucasian criminals? Obviously not...what accounts for the difference in who is getting locked up?

    ReplyDelete