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Criminal Justice Reform or Simply Equity?

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Criminal Justice Reform or Simply Equity? Imagine being born in the Unites States, commonly referred to as the land of the free, and being advised that the color of your skin increases the probability that you will spend the rest of your life in prison? This is an unfortunate conversation that occurs in many minority family households across the United States. Minority cultures, specifically Black or African American men, within the United States are nationally incarcerated at a significantly higher rate than any other race (Prison Policy Initiative, 2023). Representing a need for criminal justice reform at a national level within the United States.  Criminal Justice Inequities as a Sociological, Ethical, Economic, and Political Science Issue Racial disparities within the federal criminal justice system may be viewed as a sociological, ethical, economic, and political science issue. Race, specifically within the criminal justice system is a social construct (University of Minn...
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Exploring Economics and Political Science

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Economics and Political Science             Economics and political science are both social sciences that aim to explain the actions and behaviors that occur within societal functioning. The discipline of economics as a social science describes the way society determines how to utilize and allocate resources, particularly when there is an insufficiency in available resources ( Flynn, 2018 ). The discipline of political science as a social science describes societal actions as they pertain to politics including political organizations and their functions, as well as societies political involvement and the process of political decision making (University of California, 2021). Both the study of economics and political sciences are applied to aid in determining where the future is directed in relation to public thoughts and actions. Several theories of both economics and political science have been developed to assist in defining s...
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