Gender disparities between boys and girls pursuing STEM related courses is evident starting in primary school and are due to an array of factors‚ including societal‚ familial‚ and cultural influences. Although‚ access to education for women and girls have improved globally‚ disparities in the access to a basic education still persist‚ thereby influencing the gender gap in STEM education. To demonstrate‚ a study conducted in the United Kingdom‚ found at ages ten to eleven both boys and girls equally
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The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism‚ where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began
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that federal and state prisons and county jails are being bombarded with crisis levels of overcrowding (Alcohol Monitoring Systems‚ Inc.‚ 2013). Researchers have also predicted that the situation will continue to get worse because operating budgets are severely being cut‚ and funding to build new facilities are null. Current projections revealed in 2011‚ that the United States prison population has increased a 13 percent‚ which is triple the growth of the entire population as a whole and the cost
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For other uses‚ see Prison (disambiguation). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2012) The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2012) Criminology and penology Theory[show] Types of crime[show] Penology[hide] Deterrence Prison Prison reform Prisoner abuse
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sociology have determined that scholars develop their work around certain aspects that they personally believe and analytically researched would not only had an affect the society during their time‚ but would also positively improve the aspects of ones’ social system in modern society. One major aspect that has been continuously worked with throughout all of sociology is the idea of how to improve the prison system… especially the modern social aspect of the private prison system. With this‚ a new theory
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strategies designed to reduce disparities. Over the years‚ many developed nations have been trying to help those less developed countries to get out of poverty. This has happened through ways of giving them aid or money mostly. Along the way‚ countries have also developed goals like the 8 MDGs to be solved by 2015. But with many developing countries still suffering under poverty‚ has this aid been enough? Over time‚ new strategies have been developed in order to resolve this issue. Some of these strategies
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REGIONAL GROWTH AND DISPARITY IN INDIA: A COMPARISON OF PRE AND POST-REFORM DECADES Abstract Has the regional disparity widened in the post-reform period? This study attempts to probe into this by analysing growth rates of aggregate and sectoral domestic product of major states in the pre (1980s) and post-reform (1990s) decades. Our results indicate that while the growth rate of gross domestic product has improved only marginally in the post-reform decade‚ the regional disparity in state domestic
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overcrowding of prisons. To have prisons overcrowded it takes more tax payers dollars to support each inmate‚ and with the economic crisis were in today we need some change. The average prisoner takes thirty thousand dollars a year to be imprisoned‚ and it’s even more for inmates on death row. A death row inmate takes an average of one hundred thousand dollars a year of tax payer’s money‚ and could be on death row for many years. The prisons are so overcrowded that the budget of the prisons has grown
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Past literature regarding the portrayal of minorities in television commercials indicate that both psychological and interpersonal communication contribute to the main objective of finding how minorities are portrayed differently than their non-minority counterparts‚ and also what effects this has on individuals’ perception of minorities. There have been two studies done that have included either social influence or media influence in their study regarding the effects of media on individuals. The
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housing mentally ill citizens. However‚ as a response to the deinstitutionalization movement – this is‚ a national campaign that urged the federal government to shut down mental health facilities and thus “deinstitutionalize” the mentally ill – prisons and jails became the new de facto mental health asylums. In 2015‚ according to the Treatment Advocacy Center‚ in 44 of the 50 states‚ “the largest prison or jail held more people with serious mental illness than the largest psychiatrist hospital.” Therefore
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