CRJU 2165 Final Chapter 7

Title 7 civil rights act of 1964

Prohibits job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

define adverse impact

A form of de facto discrimination resulting from a testing element that discriminates against a particular group, essentially keeping members of that group out of the applicant pool.

The concepts that employees must take active steps to insure equal employment opportunities and to redress pass discrimination is called

Affirmative action

Define what is affirmative action

An active effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for minorities that includes ensuring equal opportunity as well as redressing past discrimination.

Now the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 (EEOA)

Extended the 1964 Civil Rights Act and made it applicable to state and local governments.

The Supreme court case that established the concept that hiring requirements must be job related

Griggs v. Duke power company

define Quotas

Numbers put into place as part of goals and objectives in affirmative action plans.

What act was enacted with the goal of assisting local government in reducing the incidence of crime by including the effectiveness of fairness and coordination of lawfulness in the criminal justice system

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

The National Advisory commission on civil disorder is also known as

The Kerner commission

The de facto discrimination was

The indirect result of policies or practices that are not intended to discriminate, but which do, in fact, discriminate.

What is reverse discrimination

The label used by those who believe quotas discriminate against whites and males to describe the preferential treatment received by minority groups and women under affirmative action.

What does he fourteenth Amendment guarantee

The primary instrument governing employment equality, as well equal protection under the Constitution to all citizens of the United States. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1868 that guarantees "equal protection of the law" to all citizens of the United States; frequently used to govern employment equality in the United States.

Define what is double marginality

The simultaneous expectation by white officers that African American officers will give members of their own race better treatment and hostility from members of the African American community who consider black officers to be traitors to their race.

What is the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

Was enacted with the goal of assisting local governments in reducing the incidence of crime by increasing the effectiveness, fairness, and coordination of law enforcement and the criminal justice system.This act encouraged the recruitment of minority personnel to better represent and improve relations with minority communities.

A substantially different rate of selection resulting from hiring, promotion and other employment decisions that work to the disadvantages of members of a particular race, gender or ethnic group is called

adverse impact

The most controversial act was

affirmative action

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 did what

allows for the awarding of punitive damages regarding civil rights violations under certain conditions based on the number of employees in a company.

What is the Civil Rights act of 1964

barred discrimination on the basis of sex. The change also can be attributed to the women's rights movement and efforts by female officers themselves to gain the right to perform patrol duty and to achieve equality with male officers. Was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.23 Title VII of this law was designed to prohibit all job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

The most prevalent form of discrimination has been

de facto discrimination

The type of discrimination that is the indirect results of policies and practices that are not intended to result in discriminate but actually do, what would that be

de facto discrimination

The book black and blue, found that black officers suffered from

double marginailty

The Equal Employment opportunity act of 1972

expanded the jurisdiction and strengthened the powers of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), allowed employees of state and local governments to file employment discrimination suits with the EEOC, and extended the 1964 Civil Rights Act and made its provisions, including Title VII, appli- cable to state and local governments.

The primary instrument governing employment equality as well as all equality in the United states is called

fourteenth amendment

Until the 1970's it was assumed that women were not capable of performing the same type of petrol duties as men because of

gender and size

The Kerner Commission made

many recommendations, including the increased recruiting of African American officers as a way to minimize or avoid the civil disturbances that occurred in the 1960s.