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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Racial disparity"”.
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Racial Disparity of African American Women in Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
… likely to die from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group. Diagnosis of breast cancer in African American women is less likely related to early screening mammograms (Peek, 2008). African American women are diagnosed at a later stage and grade (Lantz, 2006) which is also related to a …
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In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Politics and Consequences of Racial Disparity Reform in the U.S. Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
Overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities is a troubling fact in the U.S. criminal and juvenile justice systems. The scope and racial character of American criminal processing is critically shaped by politics. Scholarship has focused on the politics that helped to forge a large and …
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Broken Windows and Shattered Trust: Analyzing the Geospatial Disparities in Law Enforcement Interactions
… whether the policy reforms have mitigated the racial disparity in the enforcement of the NYPD stop-and frisk policy at the micro-spatial level, this transdisciplinary study contributes to the literature by using diverse methodologies from the fields of public policy, political science, …
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Effective School Discipline Policy and Practice: Supporting Student Learning Through Restorative Practices and Social Emotional Learning Skills
… projected to reduce suspensions and address the racial disparity existing in disciplinary practices at the school. Combining SEL and restorative justice practices will change the culture of the school through staff training, family involvement, and the creation of a new restorative justice …
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Urban Agriculture And Resiliency Of At-Risk Communities: Evaluation And Implementation At The University Of Minnesota Golf Course
… the COVID-19 pandemic and civil uprising against racial disparity has shown signs of a nationwide paradigm shift in more than just politics. Cities, and more specifically, Minneapolis, grew out of a created dichotomy between material infrastructure and the sociocultural realm (Bishop et al., 121). …
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Stature and Criminal Behavior
… to determine possible causes for such a disparity. Few of these studies, however, have examined small stature as a potential contributor to criminal behavior. This study examines the relationship between criminal behavior and stature among American males. The heights, weights, stature …
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Relating Racial Disparities to Financial Concerns and Shared Decision Making in Opioid Prescriptions
… metrics, those factors do not account for the racial disparity between Black patients and other races with respect to opioid prescriptions. That is, even when controlling for financial hardship and likeliness to complain, Black patients are still shown to have statistically fewer chances of …
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Exploring Racial Disparities of Victimization in Three Core Dimensions of Stand Your Ground Law: The Case of Florida
… research on SYG laws have mostly focused on racial disparities in the outcomes of cases and deterrence effects of the law, but this research should contribute to the study of SYG laws by focusing on demographic disparities among victims of self-defense acts since after the law’s enactment in …
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Confronting the Obstacles: African Americans' Quest for Higher Education
… Islanders (82%) and Whites (72%). However, the racial disparity that existed for African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics compared to Asians and Whites was relatively close ranging from 11% to 2% difference. These results mirrored those of current national trends showing a similar gap …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… system, there is a significant and widespread disparity in the incarceration rate between that of minority youth and their white counterparts in the juvenile system. Finally, a substantial and growing body of medical and behavioral research concludes that trauma associated with juvenile …
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The responsibility of race in community-based practice
… practitioner is likely working across racial, class and educational lines. In U.S. metropolitan areas, for example, a community-based worker can not escape the effects of racial segregation, discrimination and conflict that have left historical and lasting imprints on this country's …
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Intercultural conflict styles in the criminal justice system and the implications for intercultural interventions
… professionals and African Americans because the racial disparity in the incarceration rate was greatest for African Americans. This research project began from the premise that the racial incarceration rate disparity was caused in part by differences in cultural conflict and communication styles, …
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The impact of crime on birth weight: exploring the definition of residential environment
… problems. Furthermore, there is a significant racial disparity for this health outcome, such that Black women are nearly twice as likely as White women to deliver a low birth weight baby. Fear of crime has each been hypothesized to induce maternal stress, which has been shown to impact the …
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Measuring Academic Outcomes of Equity and Racial Equity Policies in Public Schools
The achievement gaps among different racial and socioeconomic groups have been a dilemma for K-12 educators for decades. Although complex and insolvable the issues seemed, the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) gave a momentum to creating equity and racial equity policies that addressed academic …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… guide their actions, I also argue that using a racial disparity framework to understand how both open admissions and the imposition of tuition came to be implemented obscures the class politics and power dynamics that influence individuals, groups, and policy outcomes<strong>. …
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Stigma and Workplace Relationships: An Exploration across Individual and Structural Levels
… 3 used semi-structured interviews to explore how racial and ethnic minority employees perceived and experienced racism, focusing primarily on how they understand structural racism and how racism influences their professional relationships. The results show that racial and ethnic minorities …
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Race, class and gender in engineering education: A quantitative investigation of first year enrollment
<p>Research explanations for the disparity across both race and gender in engineering education has typically relied on a deficit model, whereby women and people of color lack the requisite knowledge or psychological characteristics that Whites and men have to become engineers in sufficient …
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The impact of combined maternal alcohol and tobacco use on low birth weight in singleton pregnancies : a population based study in the US, 2003
Background: The Black-White disparity in birth outcomes in the United States remains embedded. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines low birth weight (LBW) as birthweight less than 2500 grams/5.5 pounds or below the 10th percentile for gestational age. LBW is a frequent marker of poor …
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Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development
… with yards dominated by turfgrass lawns and racial disparity driven by racist policies promoting white homeownership. In this dissertation, analyses of soils sampled from residential areas (urban, suburban, and exurban) and native ecosystem soils in six U.S. cities (Baltimore, Maryland; …
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THE DISPROPORTIONALITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
<p>African American communities have been subject to institutional and societal inequalities for much of our nation’s history. A review of the literature has shown that these families have unequal access to resources and opportunities, especially in the comparison to the rest of the population. …
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