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Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC). A Special Report.
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Bumbarger, Brian, Ed. – 1996
As far back as the 1960s, research and statistics began to demonstrate what appeared to be an inequality in the criminal justice system in that minorities, particularly black males, were being arrested and confined in numbers far greater than their proportion to the general population. The Coalition for Juvenile Justice, in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Blacks, Correctional Institutions, Cultural Awareness, Delinquency
The "Puerto Rican Exception": Persistent Poverty and the Conservative Social Policy of Linda Chavez. IPR Policy Forums Proceedings (New York, New York, November 6, 1991).
Falcon, Angelo, Ed.; Santiago, John, Ed. – 1992
A policy forum featured a presentation by Linda Chavez on the public policy needs of the Puerto Rican community. The forum also included a panel of experts from the Puerto Rican community to provide critical feedback on Chavez's presentation. Chavez argued that Hispanic Americans can move into the mainstream of United States society, and that…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education
Urban America in the Eighties: Perspectives and Prospects. Report of the Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America.
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President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. Washington, DC. – 1980
This review of perspectives on the current status and policy issues of urban America is divided into nine chapters, each of which includes a bibliography. Chapter one presents an overview of the postindustrial demographic and economic changes in the United States and the Federal government's response to these changes. The ongoing transformation of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal State Relationship, Financial Problems