Racial profiling is a wide spread term in the American justice system today, but what does it really mean? Is racial profiling just a term cooked up by criminals looking for a way to get out of trouble and have a scapegoat for their crimes? Is it really occurring in our justice system, and if so is it done intentionally? Most importantly, if racial profiling exists what steps do we take to correct it? The answer to these questions are almost impossible to find, racial profiling is one of many things
school is an uneducated child”. Very often we hear that youth or educated youth is the future of any giving society. A country where discrimination against a participation population and self-superiority of another reign could bring a different outcome. An outcome where a particular group of people are marginalized because of their skin color. In such case even the education system is contributing to devalorize or marginalize such populations. Youth education should not be done only on school institutions
according to youthinfo.gov more than 700,000 youth were treated in the ER for gang related incidents. While many actions have been taken against gang related, not all seem effective. While very interesting on how people are drawn into gangs, our government must implement more strict measurements against the clans of hooligans. The mafia first developed in the 1600s, when these citizens did not want to cooperate with authorities. (Hoover) Hispanic and African American gangs started increasing in California
regardless of how poverty is measured. Poverty rate is high amongst minority groups, children and female-headed households (Iceland, 2003). According to professor Iceland’s research, rates of extreme poverty are higher among children and African-Americans and lower for whites, Asians and the elderly. Among families with children, married couples were less likely to be poor (6.9 %) than single parent male (17.5%) and single parent female (35.3%). There are many things that can cause one to be
frequency of youth obesity has doubled among children “ages two to five, nearly tripled among youth ages six to eleven, and has more than tripled among adolescents ages twelve to nineteen.” Further, the most recent statistics continue to advise that obesity has a more rapid influence on minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics. A complicated relationship of social, economic and environmental factors contribute to higher overweight and obesity rates among African American and Latino children
stability for their biological offspring also know as the nuclear family. However, the term of a true family has ultimately changed over the last 50 years especially for African Americans. The research question is which family structure impacts and influences the most for African Americans. James Stewart illustrates the African-American family structure as “an institution that interacts with other institution forming a social network” (Stewart, 1990). In his research, Ruggles mentioned that the modern
When one thinks about Hispanics, all too often the image of a field full of migrant workers picking fruit or vegetables in the hot sun comes to mind. This has become the stereotypical picture of a people whose determination and character are as strong or stronger than that of the Polish, Jewish, Greek, or Italian who arrived in the United States in the early 1900's. Then, the center of the new beginning for each immigrant family was an education. An education was the "ladder by which the children
During the civil rights movement, individuals including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, American youth and women along with civil rights organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. African Americans during the 1960s, most communities around America segregated blacks and whites in public transportation, restaurants, and school. Discrimination prevented
The past quarter century of American history has been profoundly impacted by the “war on drugs.” Ever since the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 was passed by President Richard Nixon, the number of yearly incarcerations for drug violations has grown exponentially. America’s drug policies have cost billions of dollars and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Americans, yet rates of drug, property, and violent crime have failed to decrease. Yassaman Saadatmand summates the
reporting periods of FFY 2011. A mean receipt of 1.79 services characterized this group; these youth, on average, received between 3.39 and 6.65 fewer services than youth in the Moderate and High services clusters, respectively. The Low Service cluster was recipients of independent living assessment (45%), academic supports services (35%), career (22 %) and special education services (23%). These youth were least likely to be recipients of postsecondary support (7%), employment (8%), health education