African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans
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1. Define: a. Law i. Codes of conduct created and enforced by the government to ensure social order‚ domestic tranquility‚ and protect the public welfare b. Politics i. The art and science of determining who gets what‚ when‚ where‚ and how c. Judicial review i. The power of the judicial branch to determine whether or not laws or actions are contrary to the constitution and deem them invalid and unconstitutional d. Common law i. Laws created by judges
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Plea Bargaining Lidia Nasukowicz‚ Angela Peeler‚ Sean Schaffer‚ Robin Webb‚ Miranda Williams CJA/224 February 24‚ 2014 Plea-Bargaining originally started in the early part of the nineteenth century with the violation of liquor laws. It is one of many issues viewed in the criminal justice system. It may or may not be beneficial to the accused person allowing them a lighter sentence. This paper will discuss definition of plea bargaining‚ distinguish between charge bargaining and sentence
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Phase 5 Task 2 IP Kimberly Karg CJUS141-1301A-09 Introduction to Criminal Justice CTU Online February 12‚ 2013 Professor Lisa G. RatliffVillarreal Case Scenario Around 2:30 p.m. on the afternoon of September 18‚ the victim‚ a prominent citizen in the community‚ was assaulted and robbed of his wallet by the defendant while walking home from work. He was assaulted‚ pushed up against a car‚ and threatened with a knife. Because of the victim’s prominence in the community‚ this crime generated
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Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION Tinekhu Khola Small Hydropower Project (TKSHP) with an Installed Capacity of 990 kW utilizes flow from Tinekhu Khola which is located at Suri and Jhyaku VDC’s of Dolakha District‚ Janakpur zone in Eastern Development Region of Nepal. Tinekhu Khola Small Hydropower Project (The Project) is Run off River (RoR) type with its headworks located in Tinekhu River at some 3 km upstream from the confluence of Tamakoshi River and Tinekhu River. The distance
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health care in the United States has surpass the overall growth of the economy. Even though now days with the economy supposing to be in recession‚ more and more Americans are trying to make good on health care spending than using it toward other diversions that they could have spent it on. Why? First‚ healthcare expenditure is on a different level than it was years ago. Second‚ the economy may or may not be paying enough and finally the economic needs of healthcare needs may or may not be met‚ which
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Latham and Watkins LLP‚ established in 1934‚ is the world’s most noteworthy netting law office‚ with US$2.6 billion in yearly income‚ and is generally thought to be a standout amongst the most prestigious and beneficial law offices on the planet. Latham at present utilizes roughly 2‚000 lawyers in the United States‚ Europe‚ the Middle East and Asia. The firm was established in Los Angeles and has broad Californian roots‚ with Latham’s biggest office now in New York City. The firm cases it is the
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Ariane Lea Tiani HSMG 477 Research Paper Patient’s Dumping: Abandonment Federal Violation Law Raised since 1985 and even more to generate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) by Congress in remedy to its torts‚ patient dumping still appear to be an issue in our society today. In fact‚ patient dumping occurs when hospitals deny treatment to emergency patients -- often because those patients can’t pay. As Patient dumping is the practice of refusing to treat patients
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Impassioned responses to music include the cerebrum’s limbic projection‚ which consolidates structures‚ for example‚ the amygdala‚ hypothalamus‚ thalamus and cingulate gyrus that procedure enthusiastic responses sub-cortically. Which suggest that music can unconsciously affect the listener Schroder explains the engagement between negative emotion and positive reaction in the Semantic pointer theory of emotions‚ which shows a clear correlation between sad music and satisfaction level. Similar physiological
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Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Audience and Representation Analysis My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a programme broadcasted on channel 4. At it’s peak Big Fat Gypsy Wedding drew in an audience viewing of up to 8.7 million people‚ making it Channel 4’s eighth highest viewed programme. There are many different opinions as to what makes the programme so popular‚ that it is able to draw in audiences of half a dozen million and more week in week out. One theory as to why the programme is so popular could be due
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