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    Warrant to Search and Arrest Someone Under most circumstances‚ a police officer must obtain a warrant to search an offender’s private residence or car. There are some exceptions to this which include: Exigent (emergency) circumstances Stop and frisk Searches incident to lawful arrest Automobile searches Consent searches Searches based on plain view Crimes committed in an officer’s presence One of the exigent circumstances is that if the police are in a “hot-pursuit” of an offender(s).

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    System(CJS). Below is the diagrammatic representation of the sequence of events that follow in the CJS. As the scope of our project has been restricted to the Arrest and Pretrial process the focus of our research was these two phases and the decision points that fall in these phases. To start off it was essential to understand what is Arrest and Pretrial process and what these processes entails. Figure 1: Sequence of Events in Criminal

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    heart disease deaths are caused by sudden cardiac arrest. Occurring mainly in adults in their mid-thirties to mid-forties‚ SCD affects only one or two children each year. Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack‚ or myocardial infarction‚ but it is possible to occur during a heart attack. A heart attack is a blockage of arteries to the heart‚ therefore stopping the heart from getting enough blood with sufficient oxygen in it. Sudden cardiac arrest happens when the electrical system to the heart

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    Racial discrimination in employment between Malays and non-Malays Previous History of Discrimination Bahasa‚ raja dan agama (language‚ ruler and religion) are what people call the three pillars of Malayness in an attempt to preserve and classify who are the real “people” in a country like Malaysia where generations of other ethnicities have been living. Opportunities for employment and living are amass at Malaysia as it is one of the rising nations in Southeast Asia‚ however‚ the country

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    Program Material Discrimination Worksheet Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of predjudice or for other arbitrary reasons. Discrimination is different from predjudice and stereotyping because discrimination are actual negative

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    the way to where they grow up. In this story‚ the team wears the colors of white and black‚ two of the most opposite colors‚ representing the diversity that is between the white and non-white people of Odessa. They struggled bitterly with racial discrimination‚ so much so that in 1982 it was placed under a federal court order to effectuate the desegregation both promised and denied nearly thirty years earlier. Although these troubling issues at the intersection of race‚ law‚ and sport dominated the

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    House Arrest: Timothy’s Love Timothy’s loving actions for Levi benefit his family‚ but lead Timothy to trouble in K.A Holt’s House Arrest. Ever since Levi was born‚ Timothy’s family has been considered different‚ but Timothy is unlike most kids in a special way. What sets him apart is his loving passion throughout the book for his brother. What is loving? It is one person’s willingness to put someone else’s needs in front of their own. He even differs from his best friend José in this way‚ because

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    Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance Citation Alesina‚ Alberto‚ and Eliana La Ferrara. 2005. Ethnic diversity and economic performance. Journal of Economic Literature 43(3): 762-800. doi:10.1257/002205105774431243 October 7‚ 2012 10:32:49 PM EDT http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4553005 This article was downloaded from Harvard University ’s DASH repository‚ and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material‚ as set forth at http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL

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    Chi Hoang Mr. Varbel English 1B 15 January 2008 The issue of racial discrimination has become societal norm in America. Poets like Sherman Alexie show that the injustice still exists. Born in 1966 to the tribe of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene‚ he suffered a great deal of discrimination against him throughout his childhood because of his Native American culture and an illness of hydrocephalus. He has seen the ugly face of racism and often speaks about it through his works about the prejudice that is

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    Connolly‚ P. C. (2009). Children and ethnicity.The Open University.Queen’s University Belfast and also director of the NFER at Queen’s Centre for Educational Research. Cotter‚ A. M. C. (2011). Culture Clash: An International Legal Perspective on Ethnic Discrimination. Ashgate Publishing‚ Ltd..p. 13. Harper‚ T. L. (2011). Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning..Taylor and Francis Kohlberg‚ J Lilienfeld‚ S. O.; Lynn‚ S. J.; Namy‚ L. L.; Woolf‚ N. J. (2010)‚ "11"‚Psychology: A Framework For Everyday Thinking

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