Social Crime And Crime

In the beginning of this chapter it provides us the actual definition of social structure. Social structure is "a general term for any collective social circumstance that is unalterable and given for the individual. In this chapter it tries to explore the very complex relationships among social and economic inequality, race and ethnicity, and participation in crime. Raymond Towler spent almost twenty nine years in prison for crime he did not commit. He was charged with rape,assault and kidnapping. After The Innocence Project secured his exoneration and released through DNA evidence. His eyewitness testimony were kids under fifteen years old victims. No physical evidence were found that tied him to the crime. Sixty percent of the 260 convicted people exonerated by the Innocence Project through the use of DNA evidence have come to be African Americans. Another eight percent of people have been Hispanic. They serve an average of thirteen years in prison for the crime they did not committed. In short, being African American makes you more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime and

Human behaviors is shaped by norms that are instilled through socialization and embodied in the criminal law. This theory helps explain some of the differential rates of involvement heterogeneous, characterized by many different races, ethnic groups, religious and cultural lifestyles.
Conflict Theory:- This theory holds that administration of criminal justice reflects the unequal distributions of power in society. The most obvious example of conflict theory was segregation era in the south (1980s-1960s ) when white supremacists institute jure segregation in public schools and other public accommodations. The criminal justice system was used to maintain the subordinate status of African