Black Male Incarceration

In my essay I talk about how theres been an increase rate of black males being incarcerated and hows theres been so many reason why thats been happening. And how the imprisonment of the black males has effected the life of children, families and so much other. In my essay I will talk about the statistical facts about black males being incarcerated, and I will show the percentage of different types of races who have been incarcerated over time. I will also show why I believe why black males been arrested more than any other races. I will also explain the identity of the African American male. I will also talk about discrimination ,and how that took part in the black culture.

The Increasing Rate Of Black Men In Jail Are Leading

To A Change In The Black Culture

The increasing rate of black men in jail are leading to a change in the black culture. In the past couple of years they have been an increase growth of imprisonment within the african american community. In an article talks about how they may be more black men in college. Since there’s a lot of black men going to jail its affecting the black culture in the future.

In the prison system, white people make up 66 percent of the U.S. Population and 34 percent in prison or jail. Hispanics make up 15 percent of the U.S. Population and 20 percent are in prison or jail. 1 in 3 African American men will become incarcerated in their lifetime. During the past decades black men were six times as likely as white man to be incarcerated in federal or state prisons, and local jails. What crazy is that there was research on this that a black male born in 1991 has a 29 percent chance of spending time in prison in some point of his life. One of every nine african american men will become incarcerated between the ages of 20 to 40. Through all the statistical research you can tell that African American have the highest incarceration rate between all of the races.

The family structure is very important in the black culture, the family structure is considered a family support system involving two married individuals and children. Thats usually the norm when it comes to the common definition of a family. One of the reason why I believe this thesis is true is because a lot of black if men have been getting increasingly incarcerated for the last decade. Whats happening is that theres black males weakens the family structure in the black community. I personally believe that black males do receive higher sentences than white males. Racism does effect the justice system and society destroys the identity of the black male. There has to be an increasing rate of black men in jail are leading a change in black family structure.
Because of all this unstable family structure It has led to single parent households.

In 2007, 52 percent of prisoners were parents in the United States which is a big number. A lot of people like to call the black men that have been incarcerated the missing fathers. Incarceration can lead to extreme financial distress for the entire family with harsh implications for children. So children with imprisoned parents also do worse in school an important indicator of economic mobility. I believe that it has become a cycle where if the children who become fatherless because they have no one too look up too. And most of the time the other parent is working alot to keep up with the finances. So usually the children have no one to look up too so must of the time children end up doing things that they know thats not safe. And sometimes the children end up going in to crime and going to jail. Sometimes when theres not a strong family home the children don't know what to do

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Its very interesting to see how having a father who was incarcerated could change the children future status. That shows the importance of a family culture or a male presence in the african american culture.

A lot of men that have been incarcerated have joined gangs when they are in prison. Most men when they get to prison they are forced to join gangs from themselves. Most children in low poverty places with father incarcerated often choose to joining gangs if their friends belong. Since children may feel a sense of purpose in life and seek gang activities to reinforce themselves. Which is interesting because you would you would be thinking social learning that since children dont have that have higher figure, they would pick up from society. So they do what around them.

The inevitable incarceration of black males is leading to a disintegration of African American culture.

The identity of african american has changed over decades. Definitely when you see a black male you ask a lot of people of what you think of a black male is that you would think dangerous, angry,unsafe and a bunch of other things. Mass Media has portrayed african american male to be very dangerous, which has effected everyone to believe it to be true. Where now you see more african american male getting arrested and killed more because of the stereotypes and the prejudice. They Identity for the african american male has been destroyed because of one of the reason is years of men being incarcerated. I feel like in the african american culture the black male identity is being lost with all the stereotyping and the presumed assumption of the

media.

A good theory that would be great with my thesis statement would be the Labeling theory can be described as any label given by society to any individual, race, or social group based upon the behavior of that individual, race, or social groupIn the case of black male juvenile delinquents, the label that society has assigned to black male juveniles influences the way the rest of society views and interacts with black males. Many times, this label causes people to judge unfairly black males. People see the color, sex, and age group of the black male and they automatically assume that he must be up to no good. Some people also fear a black male because of the label society has placed upon them. Society has labeled black male juveniles as being delinquent and deviant because statistics show that black males have a higher rate of delinquency and deviant behavior than that of white males of the same age group.
It is seen everyday in the inner cities of urban America that the police and the people in society treat and interact with black males differently than they do white males. This is directly related to the label that society has placed upon the black male. Its interesting because that would be White Privilege, where whites would be treated differently by the cops then black people.