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African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Cost Effectiveness, Recidivism, and Standard Prison Settings v. Shock Incarceration Prison Camps

In twelve pages this paper assesses these two alternatives on the basis of recidivism and cost effectiveness with trends apparentl...

Programs To Reduce Recidivism

Law enforcement makes it very clear what will happen if the person is arrested again.7 After the panel sessions, a case worker is ...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

Overview of Recidivism

continue to rise" (Hanke, 1993, pp. 22). Baltimore set an unenviable record for the number of homicides in 1992 of 331, which...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Swedish and American Prison Systems

them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...

African American Generals

anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Marva Collins Model for Discipline

She also advocates the use of proverbs and poetry, as students to copy and memorize them, as these inspirational tools deliver "cu...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Economic Growth And Inflation

of 2.0 percent but quarterly rates of, respectively from Q1 to Q4: 1.1 percent 4.8 percent, 4.8 percent and -.02 percent (About.co...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

African American Student Retention: Strategies for Improvement

of 800 four-year public, four-year private, and community colleges conducted by Noel-Levitz revealed that "African American studen...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...