Khou Yang

Khou Yang, 493 words

Soc 111 

MW:1PM

In the first article, it talks about whether money should be spent more on crime. The article starts off by talking about how there are new changes that pertain to the criminal justice system such as the number of police, drug offenses getting sentence and a long term in prison. The amount of money spent on enforcing crime has increased from 1970 to today. In the article, it talks about how whites are more likely to spend more money on crime and they tend to when there is different race who moves into their neighborhood. Some may want more money spent on crime, but there are also problems that are created as well and makes under races be the one to take the hit such as African Americans having to be supervised or those who are being released are having a hard time adapting back to their communities. These are some of the problems that occur when trying to spend so much money on fixing crime. These opinions are heard from the public and it doesn't really change much because it is mostly white people who want to spend more money on crime. The methods and findings of this article is from the general social survey (GSS). It asks whether more money should be spent on crime. In neighborhoods. Whites tend to be fear more of crime when they live near blacks and they are most likely to spend more on crime. The results show that in the first table whites thinks that "blacks are more prone to violence." The second table show that the percentage of the public saying violence is done by blacks is 20% and the public is willing to spend more money to reduce crime. Overall, it shows that whites who had prejudicial views on African American tend to favor spending more money on crime. 

The next article talks about public support on deportation. It is one of the most conflicted and arguable topic and how the public want to enforce immigration laws and the control of the borders. It is an ongoing debate because some feel that immigrants shouldn't be able to stay because they are illegal. Many families are being torn apart because ICE is finding undocumented immigrants and sending them back to their own countries such as Hispanics. Some are undocumented immigrants who are staying here on a visa and when they are forced to return back to their homeland, it rips the hearts of their families because they are not able to be with their loved ones due to their citizenship. The methods and findings of the article is SCSHI which is a national public opinion survey. The responses are about the public attitudes and beliefs on deportation. It is also weighed with the 2008 census. The results of this shows that 27% thinks that Hispanics and Latinos should be deported and 32% say that they should be able to stay on a work permit. 

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