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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Running Head: HISPANIC GROUPS AND DISCRIMINATION Hispanic Groups and Discrimination Abstract This paper discusses the immigration of Hispanics to the United States in which they faced prejudice‚ segregation and racism. We will discuss such topics as dual labor market‚ affirmative actions‚ quotas‚ instructional discrimination‚ reverse discrimination‚ glass ceilings‚ glass walls and glass escalators. “Hispanic workers are among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. labor force‚” said Jesse
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Matt Djos wrote to this point that‚“In presenting Solomon… Ginsberg tries to acknowledge the full discordance of modern life‚ the deterioration of self‚ and the ambiguity and complexity of feeling.” The confinement that was affecting Solomon was leading to his deterioration as a man‚ much like Ginsberg saw as the deterioration of society
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served to represent the two opposing viewpoints of the american people‚ concerning the future of their new country. However‚ with the progression of time‚ political parties grew to become large all encompassing enterprises‚ representative only of a minority. Few americans fall solely Democratic or Republican due to the vast array of beliefs held by each party. With the obvious disregard to people’s representation‚ one is left to wonder: What purpose do parties serve today? Why do political parties play
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Wilbanks say about the presence of racism in the criminal justice system and what do most researchers believe is the reason for the disproportionate number of minorities under correctional supervision? William Wilbanks states that the "perception of the criminal justice system as racist is a myth". Most researchers believe that disproportion results from the fact that minorities are disproportionately involved in crime as both the perpetrators and victims. 4. How has the age of offenders changed?.
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Our society fuels a cycle of poverty and incarceration. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ incarcerated people had a median income (prior to their incarceration) of $19‚185 which is 41% less than non-incarcerated people. A large number of people enter prison in poverty and are released with a slim chance to escape poverty due to employment discrimination for prisoners. Poverty is a huge factor in the reason why America’s recidivism and re-incarceration rates are so high. Released prisoners
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