The Importance Of The Broken Criminal Justice System

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After reading the articles and consulting Reiman’s book, all of the authors discuss the importance of altering our criminal justice system to enhance the morally functioning aspects and to abolish the qualities of the system that are the problem.
In order to ‘fix’ our broken criminal justice system, as seen through Reiman’s eyes, the necessity of our focus should be on implementing policies that will make our system not criminal in itself.

In both Human Rights Watch articles and the opinion, which references the Attorney General Holder’s 851 enhancements, racial discrimination and proper punishment are the central aspects that support our system being criminal. The statistics given prove that the perception of color is taken into account when sentencing criminals, which is wrong. Plus, the punishments for drug possession, as an individualistic act, have absurd sentences. As well as, Holder’s memo where the 851 enhancements can double a criminal’s sentence and even lengthen the given maximum time for second time drug offenders. In order for our system to be just, one first has to remove all discrimination and bias, then provide proper punishment based on the harmfulness of the act.

One viable policy proposal that could help to correct our system is by protecting society, realizing that poverty and …show more content…

The main negative side effect for the policy proposals is the risk that the changes are slight and have no real weight for producing a successful turn around in our system. Furthermore, if the public doesn’t support the policies or get on board, then the success will be

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