The most recent crimes to sweep across America and generate controversy are known as "hate crimes". ... The dictionary defines a hate crime as "any of various crimes when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)" (Siasco "Defining"). ... An important factor in defining hate crimes is to recognize the underlying messages of these crimes. ... Racial hatred, resentment of ethnic minorities, religious discrimination, gender-base bias, ridicule for disabled people, and disdain of homosexuals are considered the most ...

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Studies on violence against Dalit women in India presents clear evidence of widespread exploitation and discrimination against these women subordinated in terms of power relations to men in a patriarchal society, as also against their communities based on caste.6 Cases of sexual violence and exploitation of Dalit women go underreported by the police. ... Crimes against Dalit women are often overlooked in the mainstream. ... Caste-based discrimination of women and children obstructs their meaningful participation in public and civil life. ... Dalit women face direct impediments right from the ...

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Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

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Aside from biased views, there are also many flaws that exist in our justice system, such as the appearance of racial inequality in court, problems of the public defender system such that it is based mostly on the socioeconomic concept, and the involvement of police abuse and misconduct. ... Minorities, specifically blacks, are charged with more serious crimes, have less opportunity to plea-bargain, are convicted more frequently, and receive harsher sentences when compared to whites in similar situations. ... A study by the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic B...

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Prejudice and discrimination came into play based on separation of these groups. ... However, discrimination is the unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice. ... The absence of prejudice and discrimination in this world would provoke worldwide peace, the end of ruthless wars, and many crimes. ... As an example, the Israelis and Arabs are still in conflict due to prejudice towards one other based on the lack of knowledge, from both sides, of the other culture. ... Finally, Society would benefit from the absence of Prejudice and discrimination because much of the human race&#...

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Until recently in Australia's history, consenting adults engaging in homosexual activity in private were considered to have been committing a crime. ... The Crimes Act 1900 states it is wrong to harm a person, damage or take their property without their consent and this includes harm, damage, and theft, motivated by prejudice. At the Commonwealth level: The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 says it is wrong to discriminate or harass a person based on reasons of sex, marital status, pregnancy, or potential pregnancy. ...

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The refusal to hire a person based on anything other than their qualifications is a poor decision on the management part. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1991 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin. ... Sexual harassment within the workplace is a very difficult subject to handle since it is a discreet crime; but through policies and educational classes, it can be prevented from continuing. ...

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While Paul Haggis created the film on an attempt to minimize racial prejudice, the film revealed how the world can be extremely judgmental based on the ethnicity of a person, although discrimination has been a problem for all of the United States. ... Acting on ones hatred can lead to a behavior known as "hate crime". ... This feeling prompts the owner to produce a negative attitude based on the assimilation and stereotypes within the Muslim race. ...

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Medical schools, military academies and even minority organizations have created "criteria" by which its employment, memberships and acceptance are based upon. ... Clearly affirmative action should be based on qualification first, which in no way represents or promotes racism and discrimination. One's achievement, when being compared to another is important, and should be based on the platform from which that person began. ... Throughout the life span of our young country there have been millions of unjust incidences of discrimination, wrong doings and even cases of murder, that were ba...

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Organizational variables are the characteristics of the police department, neighborhood variables such as racial composition of a neighborhood, socioeconomic status of an area, and the neighborhood crime rate and situational variables such as characteristics of the citizen and police, type of call for service or crime and visibility of the encounter. ... It says the police are basing the policy on the state Supreme Court's so called "balancing test" decision (Stein 1). ...

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The 13th Amendment states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" (US Constitution, Amendment 13, Section 1). ... AA laws are composed of federal and state statutes that are based upon the Constitution of the US. ... These laws and regulations are designed and implemented in an attempt to prevent and in some cases "correct past" inequities and discrimination based upon a person's race, sex, religion, creed, national origi...

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Opinions of other races and nationalities are based on stereotypes. ... Some inner city youths must also live their childhoods in high crime, drug infested areas. ... Affirmative action is designed to end discrimination and unfair treatment of employees/students based on color, but it in effect does the opposite. ... There are many factors which constitute a student's perspective, but affirmative action gives preferential treatment based exclusively on race, a purely external characteristic. ...

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In this essay, I will aim to evaluate some of the necessary skills, important to social work practice within my role as a day service assistant. (For reasons of confidentiality, identities of individuals have been changed). "A characteristic of social care practice is the ability to meet physical...

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They are not able to go to school or progress beyond elementary level therefore they lack of proper education and grow up to be immature adults who cause social problems and commit crimes. ... " (Pravit Rojanaphruk, 2014) Men remain majority in executive positions, as a result, decision makings on administrative issues are usually based on men's perspectives and considerations. ...

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People often refer to IQ tests to determine intelligence but according to the Atlantic, "[people who discriminate racially based off IQ tests] misunderstand the implications of what those tests indicate even when they are credible; and they fail to find the moral, analytic, and political response to the questions of race and intelligence.... Tim Wise, an anti-racism activist, puts it well: "If the 3.3% of blacks who will commit a crime in a given year somehow proves that blacks are dangerous and to be avoided, then why don't the other 97% prove that blacks are non-violent and pe...

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Xenophobia occurs when an individual exhibits attitudes, prejudices and/or behavior that rejects, excludes and even vilifies a group of people based on the perception that they are foreigners or outsiders in a given community. ... Genocide, the intentional destruction of a specific group, is an important subject for scholars of state crimes, yet it remains underexplored within the discipline. ...

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Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender and this remains to be a major barrier to human development. ... Moreover, punishments for committing illegal crimes are harsher for women than they are for men. ... Women face much harsher punishments for committing a crime than men do, as they are considered weak and they don't have the rights to voice their opinions. ...

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Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ... "By the time these minority students reach college-age, it is already too late for many of them; crime-ridden neighborhoods, poverty and failing K through 12 public schools are a brutal winnowing process"(Cose) Although these issues are very real, they must not be handled in a manner which places certain individuals above others. ...

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Kennedy officially introduced the concept of affirmative action to the United States in 1961 with Executive Order 10925, which forbade government contractors from discriminating in hiring based on race, creed, color, or national origin (Rubio 144). ... Moreover, the current members of the majority population rejected from colleges and/or not the recipients of particular jobs do not bear direct responsibility for discriminating against various minorities; and therefore ought not to be victims of a crime they themselves did not commit. ...

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Kennedy officially introduced the concept of affirmative action to the United States in 1961 with Executive Order 10925, which forbade government contractors from discriminating in hiring based on race, creed, color, or national origin (Rubio 144). ... Moreover, the current members of the majority population rejected from colleges and/or not the recipients of particular jobs do not bear direct responsibility for discriminating against various minorities; and therefore ought not to be victims of a crime they themselves did not commit. ...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... The only crime that they were guilty of was being white. ...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... The only crime that they were guilty of was being white. ...

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