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Racial Profiling African Americans
1,330 wordsNEW JERSEY STATE POLICE RACIAL PROFILING Racial profiling is a law enforcement strategy that encourages police officers to stop and question African Americans simply because of their race. Although not raised as a major issue in the courtroom during the trial of the four police officers who shot Amadou Diallo (who were acquitted in February), racial profiling is often employed by police, officially and unofficially, and was likely a factor in the police shooting of Diallo. Racial profiling took ...
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Close Proximity Mortality Rates
2,724 wordsThe disease known as Asiatic cholera first infiltrated Great Britain in 1831, with its arrival in Sunderland 1. From there, it broke out in epidemic proportions through 1832. Three more epidemics would follow the 1832 outbreak, 1848, 1854, and 1866. Cholera is defined as an acute infectious disease, originated in India, characterized by profuse vomiting, cramps, etc. 2 These epidemics killed numerous Brits and effected many more. Several reasons can be seen for the continued importation and spre...
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Hours Per Week People Who Live
1,242 wordsPoverty means a lot more than how much money you have, but most available poverty statistics are based on income. Poverty statistics in Canada are usually based on the low-income lines published by Statistics Canada. These poverty lines (or income levels) vary with the size of your family and community. For example, for a large city, in 1997, the poverty lines were set at $ 17, 409 for an individual and $ 32, 759 for a family of four. People with incomes below these poverty lines have to spend a...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse Bureau Of Justice Statistics
767 wordsDrug Abuse: Cracking Down On Those Who Use An estimated 14. 8 million Americans were current users of illegal drugs in 1999, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (Highlights) Drugs have been a problem in America for many years. There have been many proposals on how to reduce the problem, none of which have had much success. Drugs are easily available to almost anyone who wants them. Obviously it is very hard to stop drugs from getting into the U. S. , or to stop the production. That wo...
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Alcohol Related Problems Age Of 21
2,041 wordsCause and Effect of College Binge Drinking As young people enter the culture of the college campus, they are confronted with many challenges and opportunities: the opportunity to be independent of parental control; the need to conform; and the insecurity of a new social setting. While national surveys have documented a significant decline in the use of other drugs by high school seniors and college-age youths, there have been only modest declines in the numbers reporting binge drinking. Teenager...
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U S Census Bureau Depo Provera
1,438 words... outraging for both mother and child. Pregnant teenagers are more likely than women who delay childbearing to experience maternal illness, miscarriage, stillbirth, and Teen mothers are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely than their peers who delay childbearing to live in poverty and to rely on welfare (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 1998). The children of teenage mothers are often born at low birth weight, experience health and developmental problems, and are frequently poor,...
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Life Or Death Capital Punishment In The Spotlight
1,368 wordsSince the execution of James Kendall in 1608, capital punishment has been an accepted form of justice in what is now the United States (Smith 2). Capital punishment can be defined as the penalty of death for the commission of a crime (Dictionary. com 1). In colonial America, both violent and non-violent crimes could merit the death penalty. Murder was not the only crime punishable by death. Criminals responsible for committing any crime against God would be executed. While our society does not e...
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Crime And Deviance Moral Panic
1,060 words... ue to its ability to fall within two categories, either robbery or assault with the intent to rob. Over a period of four years the British government released a statistic claiming that muggings were on the increase of one hundred and twenty nine percent per year, Hall argued that this figure could not be completely relied upon. After comparing various statistics Hall discovered the real annual increase of muggings was only fourteen percent. From these findings Hall suggested that the source ...
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Death Row Inmates Death Penalty Information
736 wordsAs of January 31, 2003, Governor George Ryan modified the sentences of 167 death row inmates in Illinois. He stated that he felt the death penalty process was "arbitrary and capricious and therefore immoral. " Considering the role of crime and punishment in both contemporary as well as historical America, what do you think of this action? If we dig down deep into human nature; the axiom An eye for an eye suits us right. Justice at its most primitive satisfies the inner beast and the fear of puni...
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Abuse Or Neglect Child Abuse
2,439 wordsThe glory of the nation? It is known for sure that the future of any nation depends on its future generations. For a long time each nation has shown happy faces of its children in films and media. And only recently the abuse of children has been regarded as a great problem and shame of a nation. But, unfortunately, only in some countries and for some cultures. The problem has been regarded as a major social and personal problem. It goes without saying that the nation is as strong and great as it...
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U S Department Correlation Coefficient
1,358 wordsRegression Analysis -- Does Dropping out of School Impact the Rate of Violent Crimes The rate of school dropouts and the rate of violent crimes in U. S. were being suspected to have correlation since long time ago. Yet, up until recently, only the psychological methodology was being used to establish a link between these two social problems. Applying mathematical research to deal with the issue, was being thought of as too complicated, since computer technology wasnt commonly available. In the l...
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Welfare To Work Labour Market
1,023 wordsSocial Policy SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL EXCLUSION This essay is written in order to evaluate and assess the ideology surrounding the term Social Exclusion The aim is to summarise strategies that have been introduced by the government in order to effectively combat Social Exclusion. Firstly this essay will discuss the meaning of Social Exclusion. Social Exclusion is a term used for people or areas, which have in common a numerous amount of social problems such as unemployment, poverty, poor housing, b...
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Violent Offenders
1,343 wordsHello everyone, I am here to speak to you today about the Two Hundred Years of the Penitentiary project to increase public involvement in the discussion of correctional issues. More importantly, why we as citizens should be concerned about prison and jail overcrowding and the best approaches for remedying the crowding problem. One of America s biggest problems today is the overcrowding of our prisons. This is a problem we all should be concerned about. One reason why is because it is our tax dol...
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Death Do Us Part Closed Doors
804 wordsI have read a lot of statistics and personal testimonies about Domestic Violence situations. Most of us know the patterns. Most of us are familiar with the statistics. Oftentimes statistics are only numbers unless you or someone you know have become one and have lived that hell personally. Many of us have, including myself. While we can, and should, do our part as individuals, and as groups, to lobby for protection, for support, and for awareness, we also need to realize that, as difficult as it...
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Petri Dishes Flowering Plants
3,855 wordsIs there an effect on Rhizobium bacteria by changing its pH? Steve Lincoln Period 3 12 / 7 / 98 Question What are the effects of varying pH levels on Rhizobium bacteria, and can a pH resistant Rhizobium culture be grown? Hypothesis Alterations of the balanced habitat such as the change of pH levels can drastically alter the life of bacteria and can directly affect chemical reactions of enzymes released by the bacteria. Using this information the change in pH will have an effect on the Rhizobium ...
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U S Census Bureau Depo Provera
3,001 wordsGriswold v. Connecticut On June 7, 1965, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down state laws that had made the use of birth control by married couples illegal. The courts landmark decision coming five years after oral contraceptives became available to American women and 49 years after Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. legalized the use of birth control and paved the way for the nearly unanimous acceptance of contraception that now exists ...
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Gun Control Laws Saves Lives
811 wordsGun Gun Control Gun Control Gun control is an issue that many are faced with daily. Parents are concerned about the safety of their children more now than before. Some want gun control and some do not. I am against gun control because I believe if properly educated about a gun, anyone can use it to a certain extent. I know gun control laws would help cut back on the store robberies, bank robberies, gang shootings, etc. Gun laws that restrict the sale of handguns would help keep handguns out of c...
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Law Abiding Citizens Los Angeles Times
2,223 wordsIn some cases, gun control may be favored even if the price is more death. Consider, for example, H. Laurence Ross review of Gary Kleck's book Point Blank in the American Journal of Sociology. Kleck's book was awarded the Hindelang Prize, as the most significant contribution to criminology in the last three years; Ross praises Kleck's meticulous research and analysis, and Kleck's debunking of many of the myths surrounding the gun issue. And Ross does not deny Kleck's conclusion that, because han...
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Members Of Society Order To Achieve
2,143 wordsIs Sociology a Science? To decide whether or not sociology is a science we must first understand the terminology of the word science. Science literally means knowledge. Systematically observing and analyzing a theory made. The information gathered must then be validated over a period of time and the final data then correlated. This whole process giving facts that people feel to be reliable. These methods are applied to the natural sciences such as biology and chemistry. Chemists for example carr...
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Air Traffic Controllers Afl Cio
3,085 wordsRunning head: POST-PATCO ERA VS. UPS AND THE TEAMSTER Post-PATCO era vs. UPS and The Teamsters? Labor Movement Tonya D. Moore University of Sarasota Abstract Professional Air Traffic Controller Organization (PATCO) captivated Americans in its unsuccessful struggle to win the labor movement. The exposure during that period left a decline in any type of union struggle. In 1997, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) went on a similar movement that took a different turn for American laborers. The result...
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