Ethics: Racial Discrimination in Criminal Justice
Disparity in the treatment of people accused of crimes in the United States is statistically undeniable.
Chapter 3 in your text discusses the concept of institutionalized racism and the video Black Death in Dixie: Racism and the Death Penalty in the United States (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.explores the premise that the death penalty targets minorities (Nelson & King, 2007).
In this discussion:
1. Examine the moral implications for the criminal justice system if disparities in searches, arrests, and incarceration sentences continue to be skewed due to race.
2. Provide at least two moral strategies to help combat this current event issue.