Minority Groups And The Court System Paper

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*****Please note that the College of Security and Criminal Justice has placed a signature/benchmark assignment in this course, CJS/221.  The title of this assignment is one of the following:  Minority Groups and the Court System Paper.  This means I will be grading your work on this assignment as part of your course grade as well as evaluating it for attainment of Program Student Learning Outcomes.  The university will collect these data across many assignments in many courses, which helps provide information about student learning.

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****Paper must also, include:

Minority Groups and the Courts Article Discussion

Locate an article or video–using the University Library or CJSearch–related to discrimination and disparity issues in the court system. Summarize the article or video and provide a link to it for your collaborative group. Discuss the article or video with your collaborative group. Include at least one of the articles or videos discussed by your collaborative group in your Minority Groups and the Court System Paper, due this week. I will try to find an article, if you cannot locate article.

Minority Groups and the Court System Paper

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you include the following:

• Explain the difference between implicit biases and stereotypes and explicit stereotyping and attitudes.
• How biases might affect courtroom proceedings
• How racial disparity in sentencing affects the judicial system
• A summary of one of the articles discussed in your collaborative group this week. What are your personal thoughts on the issue covered by the article?

Format your paper in accordance with APA guidelines.