Racial bias in the criminal justice system

Numerous study have found widespread racial bias in US criminal justice system. A new report issued by a coalition of civil rights organizations calls the "massively and pervasively biased" treatment on blacks and Hispanics by the US police and courts the major civil rights problem of the twenty-first century entitled "Justice on Trial : Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System." The study finds that minorities in the US face discriminatory treatment at every stage …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…African American, Hispanic, or Native American depending on the nature of the crime or the section of the country.These prejudicial images provide a social-psychological under girding upon which many of the discriminatory aspects of the criminal justice system are constructed.Racial Discrimination is defined as including any distinction or impairing the exercise of a person's human rights. The discriminatory treatment of people of color in the criminal justice system fits squarely under this standard.