Reading on Theoretical Perspectives on race and crime the book used a sample of White
and Native American high school students; the author shows a test of self-control, native
traditionalism as an explanation of Native American substance use. Self control significantly
influenced all forms of substance sue when controlling for race and race specifics. The test did
reveal that self control is a strong predictor of marijuana and serious drug use among Native
Americans. Smother point made is the stereo typing of blacks as criminals is as persuasive
throughout society that “criminal predator” is used as a euphemism for “young Black male”.
Focusing on policing in the part of the book, they have a study examining 135 federallevel racial profiling cases. Based on the review of all 135 cases, it shows that such cases are
declined. Most of the people allegation they were racial profiled were African American and
Hispanic. More than half of the people making the racial profiling allegations were caught
engaging in criminal activity during the incident that instigated that law suit. Lastly, most of the
incidents involve various male officers, who work for local police departments. In the 135
federal level cases reviews that less than 1/3 of the cases are won.
Although I’ve heard growing up and often seen throughout high publicized trials that
African Americans often get higher punishments then other races. For example, the Florida
woman who shot a “warning shot” at her estranged husband who used her receiving 20 years
versus the Treyvon Martin Case where as George Zimmerman received no punishment and
Michael Dunn case where he received no punishment for killing an innocent child.
In the book using a random sample of Texas felony drug offenders sentenced furing the
height of the US war on drugs results showed that race/ethnicity, gender and age affects the
sentencing severely. The probability of receiving prison time was greater and sentences were