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    racial Discrimination

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    Abisai Garcia Mrs. King English 12 May 28th‚ 2014 Racial Discrimination For as long as history can remember‚ there has been racial discrimination between one or more kinds of people. But how far back does this history go? Racism exists when one ethnic group or historical collectivity dominates‚ excludes‚ or seeks to eliminate another on the basis of differences that it believes are hereditary and cannot be changed. The reasoning behind this thought came to a unique conclusion in the West during

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison Overcrowding: Using Proposals from Nevada and California to Recommend an Alternative Answer” By: Casey Apao For: Dr. Sarri CSN Fall 2010 Dedication: “I‚ the undersigned‚ Casey Apao hereby certify that without the assistance of Henry Apao this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper wouldn’t be done.” Signed ‚ Casey Apao Disclaimer: “I‚ Casey Apao hereby certify that this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper is the result of my sole intellectual

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    Vulnerable Populations

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    erable population Vulnerable Populations Karl Brennan Health Assessment and Promotion of Vulnerable Populations NUR 440 Vulnerable Population My definition of a vulnerable population would be a group of individuals or peoples regardless of race and ethnicity‚ that have become a concern to the healthcare community and people at large due to health disparities or the lack of equality between a peoples and appropriate medical care‚ treatment and education‚ of which most of us take for granted

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    Vulnerable Population Homeless Persons University of Phoenix By: Diana Thornton August 24‚ 2009 What does the word population and Vulnerable mean? Population means the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. Vulnerable population is defined as individuals made vulnerable by: Financial circumstances or place of residence Health age Functional or developmental status Ability to communicate effectively Presence of chronic or terminal illness or disability

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    Racial Profiling

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    hitting Diallo 19 times. All four were members of the New York City Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit‚ which‚ under the slogan‚ "We Own the Night‚" used aggressive "stop and frisk" tactics against African- Americans at a rate double that group’s population percentage. A report on the unit by the state attorney general found that blacks were stopped at a rate 10 times that of whites‚ and that 35 percent of those stops lacked reasonable suspicion to detain or had reports insufficiently filled out to

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    Racial Reparations

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    Brandi Holbrook Sociology 210 23 April 2012 Racial Reparations “Logically‚ if someone deserves reparation then necessarily someone has acted wrongly and harmed or injured him as a result (Boxill).” Without any question‚ African Americans are a group that over many years has been acted wrongly against. Thomas Jefferson was one of the first people to come up with the idea of giving reparations to black slaves‚ and the idea was soon ended by Thaddeus Stevens who said that blacks deserve these reparations

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    Racial Hierarchy

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    Final Exam Question Racial Hierarchy In reading and examining the arguments made by Blauner‚ Ture and Hamilton and Steinberg‚ I have come to realize or maybe just acknowledge more so‚ the many aspects of race‚ racism and its role within our nation. Not to say that I was oblivious to it (race) before this class‚ but I had not taken the opportunity before to examine it as closely as we have this semester. Primarily‚ I had associated race only to the color of one ’s skin rather than what it

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    Prisons and Jails

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    For other uses‚ see Prison (disambiguation). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2012) The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2012) Criminology and penology Theory[show] Types of crime[show] Penology[hide] Deterrence Prison Prison reform Prisoner abuse

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    Racial Prejudice

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    there is still resistance to accept those who appear different amongst us. Racial Prejudice is an insidious moral and social disease affecting populations all over the world. It can be diagnosed by its various symptoms and manifestations which include fear‚ intolerance‚ separation‚ segregation‚ discrimination and hatred. While all of these symptoms of racial prejudice may be evident‚ the single underlying cause of Racial Prejudice is ignorance. While all humans belong to the same species‚ races are

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    Alternatives to Prison

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    Prisons‚ facilities maintained for confining people convicted of committing crimes‚ were used to rehabilitate offenders while keeping them isolated from the community. The Quakers built the first prison in 1790 in order to seclude criminal offenders from society to think about their wrongdoing and to seek forgiveness in a kind‚ and spiritual environment. (Inciardi 497) Currently‚ there are three types of prisons within the Federal‚ State‚ and County governments. These are categorized by the

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