... 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 sentencing much more important. Today, sentences are ... has the potential to jeopardize an ongoing or future investigation. In some contexts, it is possible to identify a pool of cases that are eligible for a particular charge, and ...

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... be necessary for whites to give up any privileges granted them by the exercising of white supremacy, as well as necessary for the racially oppressed to "show the way" and "affirm or help in that endeavor" (Hooks, 1995). Hooks states: There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are ... struggle to change a system, a structure For our efforts to be truly effective, individual struggle to change consciousness must be fundamentally linked to collective effort to transform those structures that reinfo...

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... 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 opportunities for students to have positive interpersonal relations with individuals of various ethnic groups. There is evidence, which indicates that, beyond special programs, the existence of diverse populations of students on ... college campuses has positive educational effects on both majority and minority students. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, campus diversity initi...

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... used in physical anthropologies to study human remains, and aid in detection of crimes. Apart from assisting in locating and recovering human remains, Forensic Anthropologist's work on determining the age, sex , ancestry , stature, and unique features of a dead from the skeleton. The also cooperatively work with other pathologists, odontologists, and homicide investigators to identify the decedent, document trauma ... of an individual, looks at trauma evident on the bones to further detect the pathway of a bullet or the number of stabs, also works with an odontologists to match dental rec...

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... an obstacle to multiracial coalition building is essential. The author identifies two types of racism-biological racism and cultural racism. He states that hardly anyone today would endorse biological racism, that is, a categorical belief in the biological inferiority of African-Americans. Old, rejected theories of biological inferiority have been replaced, in many instances, by a form of ... cultural racism within American institutions. This exists when implicit racist assumptions, particularly cultural ones, infect the conduct, practices and arrangements of institutions. This type of i...

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