Stages of Civil and Criminal Proceedings 1. List and briefly explain each of the major stages of a civil proceeding‚ including starting the case and pretrial‚ trial‚ and post-trial activities. A civil case starts out with pleadings. A lawyer files paperwork with the clerk of courts for his/ her client. This paperwork states that the client was injured in some way‚ either by the person or the unlawful act that was committed. After the pleadings the case then goes to the pretrial
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students of different ethnicities? Learning targets: Different ethnic groups appear to have differing levels of achievement in school. Overall‚ the ethnicities of attainment are White‚ Chinese and Indian heritage students. There has been concern about the achievement levels of certain Black minorities: in particular‚ African Caribbeans and Bangladeshi students under-attain in schools. Sociologists have difficulty in measuring the impact of ethnicity on achievement because
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What and why is Forensic Psychology Important in Legal Proceedings? Beth Velez Southern New Hampshire University Justice 101-Introduction to Criminal Justice Forensic psychology is an important part of the legal system‚ dating back to 1921. I plan to show in my paper just how forensic psychologists conduct their assessments‚ the implications on what the assessment and testing shows‚ and how it can benefit not only the defendant‚ but society as well. Forensic psychologist can show if a person is
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Ethnicity The impact that education makes on one’s life is greatly diverse‚ while there are several factors that shape this‚ ethnicity plays a huge role. An individual’s upbringing plays a major role in one’s student learning‚ not only how one was raised will affect their education‚ where one is raised also does. Ethnicity is the interrelationship between gender‚ and class‚ it is the state of belonging to a particular social group that follows a cultural tradition. Where one lives‚ grows up‚
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Aristotle‚ he was born in 384 BCE at Stagirus‚ a Greek colony that is now extinct near the seaport on the coast of Thrace. He was the son of Phaestis and Nichomachus‚ who was a court physician to the King Amyntas of Macedonia. Many people claim this is where Aristotle got influenced to become part of the Macedamian Court system‚ although is has not yet been proving plenty of experts agree this is where it all began. While he was around the age of 7 his father and mother died and he became under the
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that inhabit it. With that mobility comes the shared responsibility to negotiate with people who may initially seem unfamiliar and learn to express the experience. The word "ethnicity" is used to describe a specific population’s characteristics of fundamental aspects that all humans share. When applied loosely‚ ethnicity becomes a blanket term to define large populations‚ undermining the worth and the diversity within that group and emphasizing the differences between cultures. Yet those differences
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1. Ethnicity Ethnicity is not a clear-cut term. It usually describes someone’s racial or cultural background but has a whole host of other connotations connected with appearance‚ dress‚ food‚ lifestyle etc. The ethnic majority in a particular place are‚ not necessarily those with the largest numbers‚ but those with social and political power. It is also the case that often terms describing race are fairly meaningless. People from the ‘British race’ for example originate from many other cultures
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religious affiliations‚ and there are more ethnic groups than identified in the census data Modood and Berthoud (1997) analysed the 1991 Census data on ethnicity they suggest that ethnicity comprises: 1. Subjective identification: with which ethnicity do I and my group identify? 2. Religious identification; to what extent does it help construct ethnicity? A number of general points can be made about religious affiliation among ethnic minority groups; that is‚ those people comprising the 5.49% of
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Alyssa Krajewski 10/02/2012 Society and Global Diversity Race and Ethnicity The people of American are still fighting each day to get rid of the word prejudice. Prejudice is an unsupported generalization about a category of people. Being prejudice leads to stereotyping‚ this leads to racism. Why do people judge other people by the color of their skin? Why do they think their race is more superior? Black people are judged because they were once slaves; the fact that they were owned by white
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Graciela Nava Final Project 2 Over the course of the class‚ I learned and understood new terms associated with ethnicity and forms of discrimination. In week one table 1‚ my answers were inaccurate and at random because of the lack of knowledge. After retaking the survey my answers were mostly correct 9 out of ten were right. This is because all the projects and assignments
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