users (Paltrow). The program offered women $200 dollars to undergo sterilization. An overwhelming percentage of the population targeted were African American. Children were stigmatized as a result of the panic. From birth hordes of children‚ a disproportionate number being African American and Hispanic were predicted to struggle in school and face insurmountable obstacles in life. Some teachers believed that children who were exposed to crack would “hurt”
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disproportionality test. The Supreme Court of Canada held that allowing prostitutes to operate from a designated place would permit them to create safer working conditions without fear of criminalization. Section 210 prohibition on bawdy-house is grossly disproportionate to its objective to prevent public disruption. The intended positive impacts of this provision does not outweigh the immense negative effects on safety of prostitutes. Section 212 prohibition on living on the avails of prostitution is overbroad
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mass incarceration are unreasonably endured by minorities‚ deprived communities‚ and groups with mental health issues (Western & Pettit‚ 2010). To state it clearly‚ the studies show that Latino and black men (as well as young boys of either race) are treated disproportionately different by the law. This type of disproportionate treatment includes being detained‚ questioned‚ charged‚ and arrested (Traum‚ 2013). One of the most apparent disproportionate treatments under the law is being sentenced for
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of health care coverage also results in an increased rate of morbidity and mortality‚ loss of productivity‚ and shortened lifespans among the American people (Schoen‚ Doty‚ Robertson‚ & Collins‚ 2010). Healthcare coverage is disproportionate with mainly the poor and minority groups bearing the burden of lack of coverage (DPE‚ 2016). Thesis Statement: The US spends more on healthcare than many other countries yet its citizens
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Affirmative Action Has Outlived Its Usefulness The goal of affirmative action is to compensate for past injuries which minorities endured. Affirmative action gives special privileges to minorities based solely on the color of their skin‚ not on their abilities or their financial situation. The goal of affirmative action is to remedy the injuries caused by discrimination. Yet after analyzing affirmative action one could determine that it seeks to cure discrimination with more discrimination.
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Study Guide CEP Midterm Important Vocabulary Eugenics- the efforts to improve the race through selective breeding especially negative means Culture- changing collection of norms‚ language‚ artifacts etc of a group of people Macro culture- overarching cultural aspects of a society Micro culture- subgroups having distinguishing characteristic within a society Race – socially constructed categories of people based on physical features or ancestral origin Ableism- system of devaluation of people
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and politicians including big investors gaining record high profits within Wall Street. Through such lobbying this movement has been baptized as the Prison Industrial Complex where the main goal is making money by sending individual bodies to the confinements of the prison system. With the U.S. prisons housing approximately more than 2 million inmates through the federal‚ state and private prison systems‚ we must ask ourselves; What is the true purpose behind the creation of the private prison industry
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overcrowding in our prisons and jails. There needs to be alternatives to drug sentences such as more community based sentencing like mandatory in house treatment facilities for arrestees. These facilities should be clinic or hospital based with confinement and security. Arrestees should also be tested for drugs upon booking and if tested positive‚ they should be placed in mandatory treatment while detained on their crimes. Violence against women is another social issue that plagues the Criminal
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HIGHER MODERN STUDIES Electoral Systems First-Past-The-Post (Simple Majority) How the System works: The current system of electing MPs to the House of Commons is called First-Past-The-Post. There are 646 separate constituencies across the UK each electing one single Member of Parliament. In order to vote you simply put an ‘X’ next to the name of the candidate you support. The candidate who gets the
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Groups who are disenfranchised have little ability to affect who represents them or to influence their behavior in office. Certain laws affect poor‚ young and minority Americans’ (such as African Americans) rights to vote and also affects their descriptive and policy representation. These laws mainly affect minorities’ Formalistic representation‚ which means that they cannot have an input on a politician’s means by which the representative obtains his/her status. That effectively gives them no rights
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