In the society‚ we live in today; juvenile justice is nationwide concern of law enforcement. However to what the extent the laws and penalties used towards the youth today has been a major focus of many criminologists and organizations around the nation. Many people feel that all the laws should be prosecuted to the fullest extent‚ however there are just as many who feel the minor offenses should be dismissed so that the juvenile’s future and record will not be tarnished for a nonviolent law. The
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treatment by police or susceptibility to poverty‚ one’s skin color can determine a whole range of variables in life. Particularly‚ blacks in America face a disproportionate number of social and economic barriers — but the racial problem is not binary. It extends way beyond a white-black disparity‚ affecting Hispanics‚ Arabs and a miscellany of other minorities. Many statistics reveal contrasting dimensions of racism as it exists in the United States today and are a reminder of how far the country needs to
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Mini Ethnography at Colors of Inequality Conference I chose to do my ethnographic study at the Intergenerational Spring Seminar sponsored by the Unitarian Universalists United Nations Office (UU-UNO). The theme for this year’s conference was The Colors of Inequality: Costs and Consequences Conference. This conference took place at three locations throughout New York City. The three locations it took place at were All Souls Church (NYC)‚ the Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission
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However‚ these figures should be treated with caution. It may be simply that more members of minority groups live in urban areas where such stops are likely to take place. Phillips and bowling quote home office research which used CCTV cameras in five urban areas and compared the number of black‚ white and Asian people on the streets with the numbers
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major advances in the fields of medicine and healthcare services over the past years‚ a significant health gap between rich and poor remains. As populations grow‚ so apparently do health disparities. The poor continue to shoulder a particularly disproportionate social burden in terms of inequitable access to decent healthcare‚ rising costs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality. People of color are receiving special attention in medical‚ social‚ and political literature due to disparities in health
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University of Phoenix Online Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CJA 420 Kevin Moore April 12‚ 2005 Racial Disparity in the Correctional Population Racial disparity in the correctional population refers to the difference in the number of minorities versus whites represented inside institutions. "The American Correctional Association acknowledges that racial disparity exists within adult and juvenile detention and correctional systems. This contributes to the perception of unfairness and
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changing accordingly with the women involvement in society feminist movements. 2. Minorities are clearly over-represented among those arrested for a wide variety of crimes: is this a result of their greater involvement in criminal activity or the result of disproportionate arrest policies by law enforcement? This is only my opinion‚ but I think there is a disproportionate number of arrests among the minorities‚ the book doesn’t talk really much about the statistics for Hispanic population‚ but
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According to Alexander‚ the problem here is not just that most of the prison populations are black or of other minorities‚ but rather according to studies‚ people from all races use and sell illegal drugs at almost the same rate. If this is the case‚ it does not make sense why prisons are for most part filled with black and other minority populations. This‚ according to Alexander. is a form of discrimination with the war on drugs being largely directed towards African Americans
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Assess the view that ethnic differences in crime are the result of the way in which the criminal justice system operates In the early phase of post-war immigration‚ there was an assumption that members of ethnic minority groups were no more likely to be offenders or victims than the majority white population. It was also assumed that the criminal justice system treated all ethnic groups fairly. According to a major investigation into police and immigrant relations in 1972 ‘black people were more
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because Buddhists has more power over the minorities group and their action control over the minorities. And usually‚ the powerful group gained a permission or immune from their own government law in chasing minorities. “But Burma’s democratization has also allowed extremist voices to proliferate and unleashed something akin to ethnic cleansing. The trouble began last year in the far west‚ where clashes between local Buddhists and Muslims claimed a disproportionate number of Muslim lives.” (Paragraph:10)
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