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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Civil Rights and Discrimination"”.
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
<p>A wave of indignation and shock swept over the North following Stephen A. Douglas' introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in the United States Senate in January, 1854. The South conceded Nebraska to the North, because of the Territory's geographic proximity to Northern transportation routes …
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Deconstructing China's family law for LGBTQ non-traditional families through a comparative lens of sexuality
… legal environment regarding LGBT people’s rights in the family and to predict the future of LGBT non-traditional families by deconstructing China’s family law and exploring family regulations in China. Due to the ambiguity of China’s law regarding LGBT non-traditional families, the …
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Racial Adultification and the American Criminal Justice System
… overrepresented in the criminal justice system and known to experience disadvantages in society because of their race, ethnicity and sometimes gender. With determination to understand the barriers that hinder African Americans from equal opportunities; this thesis explores the disparities …
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Acting Black: An Analysis of Blackness and Criminality in Film
… attempt to answer how films deal with blackness and crime, specifically when intersecting with the concepts of exploitation, appropriation, whiteness and the criminality of the black body. While not entirely the root of the negative perceptions of African-Americans in the United States, the …
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Affirmative action within the fire service: The background on the law and its effect on the fire service and how fire department policies reflect the affirmative action legislation.
… make-up of the fire department rosters and the citizens in which they serve. Affirmative action has been a polarizing issue since the day the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. Many thoughts and feelings had been researched but no quantitative studies could be found. This study asked …
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Physical Ability Testing: A Review of Court Cases 1992-2014
<p>Selecting employees for hire and promotion is one of the most essential functions of an organization. Many companies that have positions which contain a physical component rely on physical ability testing as part of their selection procedure. The establishment of both the Civil Rights Act and …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… the research uses critical race theory and social disorganization theory to show the relationship between court appointed representation and wrongful convictions. A new theory is also established that is referred to as the partial load reduction theory. This theory establishes the …
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BELIEFS ABOUT SOCIAL WORKERS AMONG BLACK MALES
… Despite increased awareness, research and relevant studies indicate that African American / Black men continue to underutilize mental health treatment while still having the highest all-cause mortality rates of any racial/ ethnic group in the United States. When reading this statement, …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
<p>This study assesses the origins of Arizona’s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact …
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Process and Outcome Disparities in NICUs: A Grounded-Theory Study
… NICUs are one of healthcare’s most demanding environments. Persistent neonatal outcome disparities exist in birthweight, mortality, and care quality. Recent studies highlight internal factors—staffing, workflows, policies—and external factors—social determinants of health, prenatal …
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The Legacy of British Rule On LGBT Rights In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
… relationship between British colonial influence and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights in the Caribbean. Comparing the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and Jamaica, an independent former colony of the United Kingdom, the situation for LGBT people is evaluated. …
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Understanding the History of Institutionalization: Making connections to De-institutionalization and the Olmstead Act for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the State of Illinois
… connection between deinstitutionalization and the Olmstead decision? The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze policy within a historical perspective the connections between institutional care, deinstitutionalization, the Olmstead decision, and the effect on persons with …
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Restraints in Massachusetts Public Schools
… this research study was to investigate the moral and legal issues around physically restraining students in Massachusetts public schools. As Massachusetts law is written, the use of restraints on a student should be the last possible resort. However, this thesis used data on restraint use from the …
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
… disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations profit from and lobby for an overly aggressive and ineffective criminal justice system, makes these statistics even more horrendous. …
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