Brayan Barreto

FIQWS 10115

DB#4

11/11/19

                      Criminology

 My community needs a reconstruction and improvement in the environment because there’s a bunch of awful activities and domination that causes unsecured ness and oppression.  By oppression I mean people who take advantage of another person lives. Unsecured ness come from the lack of protection and who to trust in the community. This all lead to a poverty environment. Therefore, ethnicity and socioeconomic highlight the humiliation, incarcerarion and the discrimination certain people have to face from white supremacy.

My community is similar to the idea of ‘’The Broken Window Theory”. I compared “ The Broken Window Theory “ to my community, because not many people care about the projects, especially since the area is seen so poorly, so small issues starts to become a big deal later on. Once my community became uncontrollable, the cops, violence, and crimes rise making the community be tough. Going back to the concept of “ The Broken Window Theory, “ it’s about cracking down on petty crimes in the most dangerous areas that police feel suspicious about which  make positive or negative changes to the community. For instance, Eric Klinenberg state, “ Motivation for “zero tolerance” policing, wherein officers monitor petty crimes, such as graffiti, loitering, public intoxication, and even panhandling, and courts severely punish those convicted of committing them.” This means that more report from police will be targeting  minorities, especially black men. This lead to communities to have less confidence to trust and unfair social justice since officers are arresting those who they believe are doing something unpleasant.  

Furthermore, this connects to the ‘’ Letter from a Birmingham Jail “ from Martin Luther King Jr. because unfair justice tend to happen when people of different ethnicity are belittled by those who have more power in the society. Ethnicity mean The ‘’ Letter from a Birmingham Jail “  is about the issue of injustice occurring in the justice system. For example, Luther write down “ We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. “ This quote dispute the idea that people of color ( different ethnicity ) are mainly target due to segregation occurring in the south during 1929. This is significant because problem from the 1929 still happening today due to the fact that there’s not many confrontment toward the issue or advocating the problem of unfair treatment to those individuals of different ethnicity. This connects to the idea of socioeconomic status and ethnicity because people of color have limited power that cause them to not take a direct action. 

People of different ethnicity tend to be the main prey for incarcerated in the justice system from the unprotected and uncertified  laws and repercussions from the jail system. In the article of ‘’Mass incarceration and the ‘new Jim Crow’: An interview with Michelle Alexander, “ the authors elaborated on the idea that law enforcement cause families from people of color to be split which make the young children to see life difficult and are impacted by not having a role model. For example, “ [P]sychological impact, the emotional impact, the level of grief and suffering, it’s beyond description. “ This reveals that  children are the ones mostly impacted from having to deal with tragic at an early age which cause them to thrive with anything to make their families be in good condition. This led to the cycle of being involved in the bad activity and incarcerated. As this keep happening the percentage of people of color increase in the jail system which result in the unavailability of doing something later ion in their life. This connects to the idea that incarceration, socioeconomic status and ethnicity because those who were felons aren’t valuable and life in poverty areas. 

Overall, corruption, unjustice and discrimination makes socioeconomic status for people of color to be bad and supremacy often tend to destroy life of other people. Today there has been cases where the cops over did their decision which cause some of these targets lose their lives. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources Cited 

Klinenberg Eric ( August 28, 2018), “ The Other Side Of Broken Windows. “ Used in November 8, 2019, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-other-side-of-broken-windows

Martin Luther King JR. ( August 1963 ), “ Letter from Birmingham Jail. “ Used in November 8, 2019, The Atlantic Monthly Volume 212. No 2: pages 78-88 

Stopford, Annie and Smith, Llewellyn ( Dec. 2014), “ Mass incarceration and the ‘new Jim Crow’: An interview with Michelle Alexander.” 

Volume 19 issue 4, p379-391,  Redeem from https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf