Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice

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For along time in the history of our country, the fight against crime has been cemented on some segmented of the society and the application of criminal justice has been always under fierce criticism from many people even the political class of this country…


Let us look at some of these theories in order to understand the issue of crime in association to race and ethnicity.
A theory can be defined as an explanation of a phenomena or a creation that tries to explain something that has to be proved through research. It is a set of interconnected statements or proposition which tries to explain how tow or more variables or factors relates to one another and the result of their interaction. Theories are logical and empirically testable. Theories help to expand our knowledge on subjects of our concern. Let us look at different paradigms with-n the criminological theory
The biology, race and crime theory was advanced in 1957 by Reid in Europe. This theory tried to postulate believe of a born criminal. Earlier postulation of the theory in the work by Lombroso in 1876 had made important relationship between crime and race. In his explanation, he mentioned that some tribes in India and Italy reported high rate of crimes due to the ethical issue. He argued that the frequency of homicide in Calabrian, Sicily and Sardina were due to the Asian and African elements in the area.
In his work, Lamboroso was mainly focused on ideas the inferior people in the society were polluting the same society. ...
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