Minority Report

1. What are the major guidelines (ABC’s) of Report Writing in Criminal Justice and what three core requirements were discussed in our course text? There are three major guidelines of Report Writing in Criminal Justice. The guidelines are known by the acronym ABC’s, which standards for accuracy, brevity, and completeness. First, accuracy refers to the precision of word usage. It is important not to use vague words that can have multiple means. As pointed out by Miller and Whitehead (2015), value…

to her she’s over it. It’s described in the poem why the student tries so hard in school, and what she gets out of it. The poem takes place in 1947 at an elementary school called the Alamo, I’m assuming it’s mixed with Mexicans and Whites. The minority thinks they have to act a certain way and there is one student who stands up for herself and tries really hard in school. The rest of them don’t like that and they bully her in the bathroom until she stands up…

unable to influence others. The social cost of holding a view that is different from that of the majority is relatively high, this means minorities often hold their views more strongly. Sometimes this is unavoidable, this can mean that minorities stay with their opinions which makes their viewpoint seem stronger. This can become a problem because if minorities never take the chance to change the majority 's thinking there would be no social change. When society adopts a new belief or way of…

Psychological Association (APA) declares the need for “increasing the number of racial and ethnic minority mental/behavioral health professionals and creating a culturally competent workforce to meet the needs of the expanding minority population of the United States” (American Psychological Association (APA)). Not only does the current healthcare workforce not reflect the diversity of our country, but also minority groups lack comprehensive and easy access to the same, quality mental health…

and ugliness is the analogous counterpart to ability and beauty respectively. These categories however can illicit strong responses towards them. It is how society perceives abnormality, disability, and ugliness that create marginalization of these minority…

Inclusion is defined by five features, which if applied correctly in the communities of racial minorities would properly include them in political and legal representation. Racial minorities should mobilize themselves through the institutions such as the church, vote for representatives similar to themselves in descriptive form which they can hold accountable, and assess the factors necessary to achieve the highest levels of democratic inclusion. Inclusion is defined by a “full access to…

feeling of impending death. Yet even with these egregious conditions, minority soldiers dealt with far worse conditions than white, straight servicemen ever faced. Black soldiers experienced segregation and savage physical assault, while Japanese and gay soldiers often faced isolation and psychological harassment. Each minority serviceman had a unique experience in the military because of their race or sexuality. Further, each minority serviceman endured their conditions for different reasons.…

argument. This movie uses the analogy of animals of different species to represent people of different races and cultures within a given society. The different species are divided into the categories of predators and prey, with predators being the minority at 10% and prey being the majority population. Throughout the movie we see many examples of real life issues dealing with race, class, bias, stereotypes, social justice and other topics. The characters in this movie become subtle metaphors for…

discrimination laws which were set in place to protect minorities in the work place, most if not all discrimination occurring in the work force is veiled or covert. Covert discrimination is often times extremely hard to prove due to it 's veiled nature, victims of such discrimination are left helpless without any means of rectifying the situation. Some acts of workplace discrimination are but no limited to; Limiting the upward mobility of a minority, continuous discreet jabs at ones race,…

I am from a small town in Georgia called Albany where the population is majority African-American, as I grew up I became very used to being in the minority. At the time, I had no idea of the differences between people in regards to races. I had no understanding of the fact that only one out of every ten people in Albany were even Caucasian like myself. I saw everyone around me as the same, because I had not been taught a difference. Unlike with race, I did understand the differences in gender…