... 2.3 percent of prisoners serving jail time for rape were blacks convicted of raping whites (Marquart 58). The reason for this small percentage was because a black man who was convicted of raping a white woman was not sentenced to jail, rather to death in most cases. Marquart agrees: "Nationwide, the vast majority ... women- (Marquart 64). Juries sided with their neighbors rather than justice and the result was an absolute abuse of the judicial system and was a big reason for the Furman decision by the Supreme Court. In addition, Marquart notices a widespread trend of victim discrimination...

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... including 14% of sexual assaults, 30% of robberies, and 27% of aggravated assaults. (OJJDP, 2000). The rate at which juveniles committed serious violent crimes changed little between 1973 and 1989, peaked in 1993, then declined to the lowest level since 1986 (OJJDP, 2000). Prevention programs are a necessary part of the criminal justice ... bond to develop, but there is no guarantee that this will happen. Mentoring can best be described as a continuum. With a relationship such as those provided by Big Brothers/Big Sisters (a one-to-one match) at one end and a classroom volunteer with a ...

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... "you killed someone, so we'll kill you". Some call on religious authority- "an eye for an eye." (Opas, P.1996) There's a big problem with this logic. Proponents of the death penalty claim ownership of the moral high ground in their arguments regarding murder, rape and other crimes. They ... one prisoners under sentence of death were from the lower end of the socio-economic scale. They had grown up in violent neighbourhoods and had received little or no education. Four were illiterate, and twenty-one were semiliterate. Most were first offenders."(Amnesty International 1989, p29) In Ameri...

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... death are asked to answer. Death penalty is considered to be a very complicated issue since there seem to be a variety of opinions that concern it. This institution has caused a rather big gap as many people believe that the best thing would be to do away with it whereas others support that its existence is very important for a number of different reasons ... and let's not ignore the possibility that the accused person proves to be innocent. For example, the "Governor Clinton refused to stay the[ ] May 7 execution of a 25-year-old white man who was involved when he was 18 in the shootin...

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