Does the color of one’s skin have an effect on police stops
Respond to the following in a minimum of 100 words:
Issues of race and ethnicity when creating policies to facilitate inmate readjustment to society upon release should be considered in ways of formulating and implementing post prison programs. The programs will majorly help post prisoners from re-offending and recidivism. I also feel race shouldn’t lay a role in the reintegration programs because an offender is an offender, no matter which race the offender belongs to. These programs are aimed at making the offenders a better person so they won’t end back up in prison within the next year. I would say given the sharp negative effects that incarceration has on individuals they have been locked up for years and that’s all they know mentally they will have trouble adapting to today’s society. Some prisoners have been in prison for years don’t know how to properly work a cell phone or have great social skills. Sixty to 75 percent of recently incarcerated individuals were unemployed one year after release, and when they do find employment, former inmates can expect to earn 40 percent less, on average, than they did before going to jail. Seventy to 90 percent of the 10 million people released from jail or prison each year are uninsured, yet this group experiences mental illness, substance use disorders, infectious disease, and chronic health conditions at a rate that is seven times higher than the general population.
2)Class, does the color of one’s skin have an effect on police stops? Does skin tone matter in police decisions? Are people who are very dark-skinned more likely to be stopped, arrested, or even shot than light-skinned African American?
In a pioneering study, Karletta M. White investigated the impact of skin tone on the likelihood of being stopped by the police. Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (generally referred to as ADD Health) had the investigators conducting in-home surveys to record respondents’ skin tone on a five-point scale (black, dark brown, medium brown, light brown, white). Respondents reported their own race and identity and also their experience in being stopped by the police.*
White found that “skin tone is related to the likelihood of being stopped or arrested by the police” for African Americans. “As skin tone darkens,” she found, “the odds of being stopped or arrested increase significantly.” The findings with regard to Hispanics were ambiguous, however, because of the small number of dark-skinned Hispanics.
More research on the issue of skin tone is needed. If skin tone affects police decisions to stop people, does it also have an effect on police shootings or use of physical force? Skin Tone
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