Response to "The Vicious Cycle"

   This article is very interesting. I think it's disturbing that the majority of those in jail are minorities. I mean, 99.2% is a large amount of people and there is no way that Caucasian don't commit close to the same amount of crimes as minorities (as much as the general population would like to believe so). It makes me think that our officers are somewhat stereotypical or racist when searching for or accusing others of committing crimes. I also found it interesting that people as young as age 15 have been caught selling drugs.
   Most of these acts of deviance are probably acts of secondary deviance where they commit a crime and continue to commit it after being caught once. I think that because many of these people likely to commit the crimes again, society should focus on helping them not want to act deviantly again, rather than putting them in jail for a while or impounding their cars. Prisons are only good to keep a dangerous person out of society, but are clearly not successful in preventing other crimes after prisoners are released..Recidivism is too common!