Race and the Criminal Justice System in the United States: Part 1
Journal: Revistes Científiques de la University of Barcelona (University of Barcelona)
Year: 2020

Racial disparities can be found not only throughout the procedures, policies and institutions of the criminal justice system but also in the differences in social and economic standing in American society. Criminal justice and punishment, as it will be referred to, can be viewed as a vehicle of social control help to explain the disproportionately massive reach of its consequences in the lives of black Americans (majority male). This sociological perspective of social control theory frames both