Hate that is based on race, religion, and sexual orientation can exist within any cultural rich society. ... People have discriminated against others based upon these attributes from the beginning of time. Prejudice has become a complex problem in society today and much of the world's history is based upon such hatred. ... Society is riddled with such hatred based upon peoples" benefits and origins and it seems millions are fighting each other for no relevant reason at all. ... Many people try to fight these hate crimes. ...

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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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Often people think that a prejudice is based solely on an individual's skin color, but that is not always true. ... People have discriminated against other people based on these attributes since the beginning of time. Prejudice has become a complex problem in our society today and much of our world's history is based upon hatred. ... What is a hate crime? ... However, a hate crime is not really about hate, but it's about biases or prejudices; essentially hate crime refers to criminal conduct motivated by prejudice. ...

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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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Discrimination is defined as different treatment of others based solely on their membership in a socially distinct group or category, such as race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. ... Recently, a new race has been the victim of increased hate crimes. Since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers, statistics from an FBI report of hate crimes in American showed that the number of crimes against Muslim or Arab Americans jumped from 28 in 2000 to 481 after September 11th. It is shocking to believe that over 17 times the crimes in 2000 occurred in only three and a hal...

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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 term racism can be identified as a doctrine that accepts biological differences among various races should determine cultural or individual issues and because of some natural causes one race is superior to others and has the right of ruling over them.Racism exists since people confronted with other communities that makes it as old as human history.Racist actions went down in history as a shame such as Holocaust and Srebrenica massacre.Unfortunately, although there are significant developments for human rights racism continues even in most developed counturies.It can be only said discrimina...

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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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Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. ... History has had their share of hate crimes, dating back to the start of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a group of whites that hate and terrorize blacks. ... The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. ... The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). ...

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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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The amount of reported rapes in the early 1970's nearly doubled according to Paglia, becoming twice the rate of other violent crimes and four times the number of overall crimes in the United States. ... Where as Faludi provides many more facts, Paglia provides many "factual" statements based on her observation. ...

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This includes maintaining the Affirmative Action law that protects people from discrimination based on race or gender. It supports action taken to eliminate racial profiling, reducing hate crimes, and increase education in race issues. ... Social justice is based on the concept that society or government should be based on just and equitable treatment for all people (Laureate Education, Inc. 2008). ...

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A person's caste is based on more than one's type of work, and in modern times, vit does not always indicate the type of work a person does (Molloy, 2013). ... This thought is based off of old traditions that are no longer legal. ... Every hour, two Dalits are assaulted, three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits murdered, and two Dalits houses burned, according to the Human Rights Education Movement of India, yet only one percent of those who commit crimes against Dalits are ever convicted. These acts are still happening even though caste-based discrimination has been outlawed for over...

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Discrimination is stated in the dictionary as being "unfavourable treatment based on racial, sexual, etc. prejudice." ... Tom Robinson is assumed guilty just because a white person accused him of a crime. ...

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The boy's inability to name the movie made his alibi of going to a movie during the time of the crime less plausible. ... Based on this, the jurors concluded the boy had to use this knife to kill his father. ...

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Hate crimes, anti-feminism, racism and even genocide can take place anywhere and possibly these things happen everyday. ... This theory or concept can help us understand why issues of racism, anti-feminism, hate crimes and genocide even take place. ... A woman may feel that the cause of her lack of success is solely based on the fact that she is female. ...

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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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Thus, the University of Maryland follows suit with the University of California and Northwestern University in establishing policies that include state and federal laws to explicitly state the crimes that exist in the college environment in a way that leaves room for interpretation when concerning the gender of the parties involved in sexual misconduct incidents. ... In fact, the "Women's Center, the Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program, and the University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office give particular attention to educating the campus community to the destructive conseq...

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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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