Although some studies reveal that African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American youths are treated more harshly than Caucasian youths at several stages of the juvenile justice process (even after the seriousness of the offense and the offender’s prior juvenile record are taken into consideration), the studies do not discuss why these disparities occur.

Thanks for your main discussion post answer on the IC organization. There are many different ways to group or categorize the agencies within the IC and I would now like to point out that one way to do that is to ask what is the primary focus of those agencies or what functions were they created to perform. For example, one of the many differences between organizations in […]

Your student portfolio is essentially a synthesis, summary of, or selection of key points drawn from the practice assignments. However, you will focus on a topic that is of interest to you, not necessarily the topic you wrote about in the practice assignments. Most likely this will be some variation of policy analysis (P3), that addresses stakeholders (P1) and explains why this is important to […]

“Broken Windows Theory” has been criticized for encouraging discriminatory police practices such as unequal enforcement based on racial profiling. In support of the theory, New York’s crime statistics conducted between 2001 and 2017 suggested that enforcement policies based on the broken windows theory were effective in reducing rates of both minor and serious crimes. Based on your research does “Broken Windows Policing” work. 

Choose one US Senator or US Representative from your local state and write a report on a political position he or she supports. Your thesis will agree or disagree with his political stance. Proper grammar and spelling are required.  Papers must include a cover page, at least two-four full pages of content, and a bibliography.  All sources must be legit, academic, or peer reviewed sources. This […]

For this topic, we are going to have a conversation on the different forms of voter suppression/intimidation. There are many different forms, some of which of depend state by state, some maybe argued or debated over of the legitimacy, but many of the forms listed have plenty of documented record and public consensus of their legitimacy. In the past we have seen such forms as […]

1. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was the most highly publicized and debated constitutional amendment before the United States for most of the 1970s and early 1980s. First submitted by Congress to the states for ratification on March 22, 1972, it failed to be ratified by its final deadline of June 30, 1982. If ratified, the ERA would have become the twenty-seventh amendment to the […]

Locate a current event from the past two years. The event should be related to politics or government policy in the United States. The source must be credible. The paper must include: Summary of the events in your own word. Connection of the event to one or more of the concepts in the box below taken from the chapters. Formatting: One-page single space Times New […]

Locate a current event from the past two years. The event should be related to politics or government policy in the United States. The source must be credible. The paper must include: Summary of the events in your own word. Connection of the event to one or more of the concepts in the box below taken from the chapters. Formatting: One-page single space Times New […]

The programs (Medicaid and Medicare) of the Federal Government in the 1960s increased the accessibility to health care by the poor, both to private and the government hospitals. The Federal government also increased financial support to institutions that were primarily involved with the treatment of the poor, children and maternal care for the pregnant woman, the mental care and care of the drug dependents thus […]