Anomie Conflict Theory

Anomie can be brought about through external and internal thoughts, situations, etc. Anomie can be brought about by soaring aspirations. Blacks have aspirations, but the goals or means to these are blocked. These aspirations make people unhappy with the life they have. Blacks are unhappy with the life they have. They see around them violence, crime, and criminals. They also see those successful whites who have better lives and who are looking down at them. This conflict between the haves and have-nots (conflict theory) creates these aspirations. Everybody wants out of the ghetto, out of poverty, and to be free from discrimination. The road to get there is a lot harder when we dangle the prize in front of them, tell them they can get it if they

This resembles whites and blacks with their conflict between rights and status. Whites have everything, blacks do not. Blacks experience inequality because the system was created that way to enforce inequality. When capitalism came around, African Americans could obtain work, although this didn’t last long. Eventually jobs were outsourced and machines took over many people’s jobs, especially those with a low skill level. Without jobs, many became unemployed and even homeless. Capitalism is seen in the profiting off the war on drugs. Agencies receive funding and even more if they prove they have used that money and arrest so many people for drugs. These agencies are taking assets from people just on the premise of being involved in a crime, even if the owner is innocent. Many people in the CJS are bribed to be snitches. By doing so they can receive a lesser sentence plus money. This money could be used for communities, but instead agencies are hoarding it for themselves. They even are allowed to use military equipment leading to the militarization of the police. They are offered machine guns, grenades, planes, etc. These are things that they really do not need. If anything is causes fear in the community and many police abuse these rewards and laws to get and do what they want. It was a way to take everything from the poor to keep them lower than dirt and

The conflict is between the Whites vs the Blacks and the government vs the community. The media solidified to the public imagination who the target was in the War on Drugs. The image that was portrayed was the black drug criminal. Eventually the war became one of us (whites) against them (blacks), not even drug users or dealers. The media created a population which was capable of seeing a black perpetrator, even when one did not exist. Studies have even indicated that people become harsh when a black man kills a white man, but not vice versa. The media and politics constructed the idea that the war was targeted toward those who are black and brown, the enemy. The government jumped in to support and fully back the war and to back the whites into an area in which blacks could not attack back. They could try, but they would always fail. The government passed many laws and policies that stopped black from getting ahead at all costs and allowed more discretion for those in the criminal justice system to discriminate against those deemed as the enemy. Officials were literally getting away with everything because they could due to how the laws were written. The government said that jurors and prosecutors are shielded from scrutiny from any allegation. This meant that evidence of bias would almost always be unavailable. Those who did (the community) that wanted to prove racial bias and discrimination had to do so by offering in advance