longer for Africans, African American males ages 22-30. The likelihood of going to prison was
also high for Hispanic male’s ages 31-40 but no differences were shown in sentence length. In
the book it also showed that In the book it also showed that young minority males will pay a
penalty cost as sentencing on drug sentences.
Although, I feel as if more African American may be committing certain crimes I don’t
think that the African American population commits more crimes I’ve seen while sitting in court
rooms for several classes that a lot of Caucasians’ are arrest for drugs a lot dealing with pills,
prostitution and burglaries. In the book official records show that blacks exhibit higher levels of
involvement in criminal offending than whites do. It also shows lower levels of African
Americans overrepresentation in criminal offending activity appears to be considerable evidence
that blacks are disproportionately involved in serious crimes.