Discuss the impact of race on prosecution of rape in the United States
What will be an ideal response?
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Historically, the rape of African American women by White men has scarcely been treated as a crime, but many African American men were lynched because they were accused of raping white women. Between 1945 and 1965, the death sentence was more likely for this combination (African American perpetrator, white victim) than with any other combination.
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a. Rapport building b. Stabilization c. Ensuring physical well-being d. Averting harm to self or others
A supervisor tells her manager that she is getting negative feedback from clinicians
about recent policy changes. While she does not express her own concerns, she encourages the staff to air their grievances. How has the supervisor failed to set boundaries? A. She has used the staff to raise concerns she should be raising directly with her superiors. B. She has not made any attempt to balance negative criticism with more positive views. C. She has neglected to teach clinicians to consider decisions within the context of the whole agency. D. She has insulated her clinicians from administrators' thinking on the policy her staff is criticizing.
A family preservation program director helps design a study that evaluates the effectiveness of her program to keep children living with their abusive parents by providing the families with daily home visits by social workers. She expects the evaluation to show a dramatic reduction in reported child abuse incidents. Instead, the results show an increase in reported child abuse incidents. The
director then concludes that the program was undoubtedly effective, reasoning that there really could not possibly have been an increase in actual abuse due to her program, just an increase in reportage of abuse due to closer monitoring in the daily home visits. The director is committing the error of
a. illogical reasoning. b. ex post facto hypothesizing. c. premature closure of inquiry. d. selective observation. e. mystification.
Medicaid is:
A) funded by payroll taxes? B) ?funded by the states C) ?funded by the federal government and the states D) ?funded by corporations