Every police officer has a great deal of discretion concerning when to use their authority‚ power‚ persuasion‚ or force. Depending on how an officer sees their duty to society will determine an officer’s discretion. Discretion leads to selective enforcement practices and may result in discrimination against certain groups of people or select individuals (Young‚ 2011). Most police officer discretion is exercised in situational situations with individuals (Sherman‚ 1984). Discrimination can lead
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	Society in the 1959 was full of racial discrimination. White and blacks were still living in their own "areas"‚ the public as a whole was very slow to accept the concept of mixed neighborhoods blacks and white living together. This book‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry‚ tells the story of a lower-class black family’s struggle to gain middle class acceptance in the Southside of Chicago. The Younger family of five‚ four adults and one child live in a cramped apartment
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Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century‚ most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings-driven news market‚ media-enhanced isolationism as a result of narrowcasting‚ and other sources. This
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Should Racial Profiling be a Legitimate Law-Enforcement Policy? Racial profiling is an act where all people of a certain race are treated as criminal suspects by those of law enforcement. This occurs when police investigate‚ stop‚ frisk search or use force against a person based on race instead of a person’s criminal behavior. It often involves the stopping and searching of people of color for traffic violations. One controversial issue in the discussion of racial profiling has been how to prove
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Disparities in Wealth and Development The eight Millennium Development Goals are: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: MDG is trying to cut the number of people living off $1 in half. Overall poverty rates fell from 46% in 1990 to 27% in 2005 in developing regions‚ and progress in many developing countries is being sustained. 2. Achieve universal primary education: MDG is trying to increase the number of educated people in the world. They state that they think this goal will
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post-colonialism‚ but the concept of race and phenotypical differences remained embedded in society and in the minds of people throughout different countries. The racial classification and racial hierarchization of the world was a deeply established sociohistorical fact (Winant 135). The post-world war II break brought to light the long gestation of racial tensions that had accumulated in the modern world over centuries‚ and made it clear that a social and political change must occur. The process of slow institutional
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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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into the transformational leadership styles of senior police women” Jacqueline Whittred 24080 M.Sc. in Police Leadership and Management Department of Criminology University of Leicester September 2008 Acknowledgments The author would like to express her thanks to Dr Tammi Walker for her invaluable advice and guidance throughout the research process. The author is also grateful to Liz Owsley of British Association for Women in Policing‚ Bedfordshire Police Networking Organisation for
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Running Head: Gender Disparities Towards Female Workers in El Paso Gender Disparities Towards Female Workers in El Paso Abstract Women have struggled to have their voice heard and recognized for many century’s. All though we have come a long way from 200 years ago women in the work force still have obstacles of gender inequality that may need to be attended to at this time. Our research proposal aims to study the disparities‚ between several quantitative factors of the working
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Gender Disparity in Nursing Males were originally the first caregivers; during the black plague in the third century‚ they would walk around looking for sick patients on the streets (Genua‚ 2005). There are two known groups of men who cared for the sick during this time‚ the Alexian Brothers and “Fathers of a good death” (Genua‚ 2005). There were many other religious orders that came about that turned into nursing orders; however‚ when the monasteries fell‚ men’s role in nursing care changed (Genua
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