Racism And Mass Incarceration
This piece of work is mainly about the social analysts position to the issue of racism and mass incarceration and also how the various principles of distributive justice can be applied to different positions in our issue of focus. It is quite evident that the main work of the social policy analysts is to identify current problems, evaluating them and coming up with solutions regarding to it. Once they discover the problem they try to check for the causes that may leading to that problem and also other problems that may be related to it. However, different social policy analysis’s have differing views regarding a certain problem and also
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It‘s an issue that is difficult to isolate and its effects have an impact on the whole population at hand. Different analysis hold different views to it and thus we seek to comprehensively analyze it. In the text by Gilbert and Terrell they have tried to define how liberals and conservative have differing views in regard to policy formation CITATION Nei12 \l 1033 (Gilbert & Terrell, 2012).
The socialist opinion to the problem of mass incarceration would be that prisons are not a good place to keep people that may be having small crimes locked up , that the justice system has not come up with a way of dealing with the issues of crime rather than incarceration which already is not a working as expected and also that the government incarcerates way too much people at the expense of the society. They are of the view that incarcerating more people and building more prisons is not a very efficient …show more content…
One is able to get the basis of their statement to be equally truthful. The government has the task of ensuring the security of all citizens and ensuring that all the social ills are eliminated. However, as much as their justification is true one also has to consider the overall impact of the issue. Imprisoning people is a way of eliminating criminals from the society but one has to also consider the impact translating to future generations and to the economy. Research shows that children brought up in families with a single parent are more likely to engage in crime than those from complete families. Considering the government increased spending on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant (TANF) we also see the economic impact of mass
It‘s an issue that is difficult to isolate and its effects have an impact on the whole population at hand. Different analysis hold different views to it and thus we seek to comprehensively analyze it. In the text by Gilbert and Terrell they have tried to define how liberals and conservative have differing views in regard to policy formation CITATION Nei12 \l 1033 (Gilbert & Terrell, 2012).
The socialist opinion to the problem of mass incarceration would be that prisons are not a good place to keep people that may be having small crimes locked up , that the justice system has not come up with a way of dealing with the issues of crime rather than incarceration which already is not a working as expected and also that the government incarcerates way too much people at the expense of the society. They are of the view that incarcerating more people and building more prisons is not a very efficient …show more content…
One is able to get the basis of their statement to be equally truthful. The government has the task of ensuring the security of all citizens and ensuring that all the social ills are eliminated. However, as much as their justification is true one also has to consider the overall impact of the issue. Imprisoning people is a way of eliminating criminals from the society but one has to also consider the impact translating to future generations and to the economy. Research shows that children brought up in families with a single parent are more likely to engage in crime than those from complete families. Considering the government increased spending on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant (TANF) we also see the economic impact of mass