Pros And Cons Of Criminals

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Stereotyping Within the Criminal World
All people have some sort of opinion on how criminals become the way they are. Criminals becoming the way they are can be a result of stereotyping within the prison world or a variety of things from the outside world such as drugs, people, and media.
Murders, rapists, and nonviolent drug offenders stay in prisons all around the world. There are two types of people who are in prison. Those who hurt people and those who are nonviolent drug offenders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In order for prisons to stay operational they have a state budget and government money, which is provided by the taxpayers. Among the 40 states that participated a survey, the cost of prisons was $39 billion in
Such a loss can likely have a significant impact on the emotional, psychological, developmental, and financial well-being of the child (Travis 2). Take a second and think about your family. When you think about them, do you think of bad things such as absent parents or abuse within the home? No? Well you are already doing better than half of the world. In an article done by the Institute of Justice, being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 59 percent, as an adult by 28 percent, and for a violent crime by 30 percent according to one study that looked at more than 1,500 cases over time (the researchers matched 900 cases of substantiated child abuse with more than 650 cases of children who had not been abused) (Impact of Child Abuse and Maltreatment on Delinquency, Arrest and
So is it possible that because we have this mind set of how criminals look that police automatically seek to find someone who fits this profile. In the documentary, The House I Live In, Marshall Larry Clearly for Magdalena New Mexico says “If you don’t profile vehicles, you’re not in law enforcement. Same thing with profiling people” [sic] (The House I Live In).Hunting them down to find anything to bring them in and get credit. David Kennedy from John Jay College of Criminal Justice says, “The problem is a real tendency on the part of law enforcement to think geographically to go and throw resources at an area . . . anytime you need to make an arrest, troll through there (The House I Live

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