For example, while race relations and inequality have been a dividing issue in our country for a majority of our country's existence, the recent issues of police brutality and Black Lives Matter has been brought to the forefront. ...

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The strain theory assumes that individuals are pushed toward committing crimes due to the social structures that are in place; the class system, for example. These strains take two forms – structural, which occur at the societal level and affect individual perceptions, or individual, which is the ...

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There will always be a power struggle, tension, and antipathy between prisoners and guards but police brutality and the violation of basic human rights on a daily basis is no longer the norm but a deviance. ...

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