... imprisonment), mandatory minimum sentences (statutes specifying that offenders serve at least a minimum numbers of years for a given crime, habitual offender laws (which require enhanced punishments for offenders with specified numbers and types of prior convictions), and sentencing guidelines-all of which limit and sometimes altogether eliminate the judge's ability to choose a sentence-have made the prosecutor's role in ... or the credibility of witnesses, all of which are legally relevant factors about which prosecutors must make judgments when deciding whether to file charges and what...

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... the application of science of application in a legal setting-most often physical anthropology human biology are used in criminal cases (FBI, CIA and military)where the victim's remains are in the advanced stages of decomposition. Basically it is the analysis of decomposed, or otherwise human remains that ... mind when we think about Forensic Anthropology is that what do the Forensic Anthropologists Do? They are commonly portrayed in the media as scientists, and/or scene technicians, but it is not accurate. While most are trained on Forensic Anthropology are also trained in collecting evid...

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... the term "white supremacy" as opposed to "racist" when describing the institutionalized oppression based on "race," stating, "-white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the ... Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of history, established by enslaved Africans, free Africans, and Native Americans, helped to combat the Eurocentric ste...

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... to live fully in the world-both the world of their student days and the one they will inhabit as adults. We are convinced that only a community, which reflects to a meaningful degree the diversity of our society, can prepare students for today's diverse world and-more importantly-for the increasingly diverse world in which they will live. University of Wisconsin ... ethnic identities that they are valued members of the school community. Students are likely to learn more from classroom instruction when they feel accepted and valued by their teachers and peers. Secondly, provide opportunit...

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... its particular situation more as a corollary to those economic factors which affect the entire class as opposed to a particular problem contained wholly within and specific to the particular group within the class. The question for Wilson is how can this be accomplished. He believes the answer to lie in the formation of a national multiracial coalition. The first half ... educational institution he writes: "To what extent are the contemporary social deprivation theories merely substitution notions of environmental immutability fatalism for earlier notions of biologically determined edu...

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