Politics
An organization of individuals with broad, common interests who organize to win elections, to operate the government, and to thereby influence government policy.
Where a bill can be introduced.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
What are high stakes testing, overly punitive discipline, police in schools, and zero tolerance policies?
Number of GOP candidates running in Georgia. Name two.
What is 8? Who are Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R), Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), State Sen. Hunter Hill, Businessman Clay Tippins (R), State Sen. Michael Williams (R), Former House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D), State Rep. Stacey Evans (D), and Libertarian Doug Craig (L).
True or False. The U.S. Constitution, Treaties, and laws made in pursuant of the U.S. Constitution are the Supreme Law of the Land.
Recipients of Special Education services or Free and Reduced Lunch share this.
What are characteristics that make a student more likely to receive harsh discipline practices?
True or False. Juvenile Justice is only concerned with the Juvenile justice System not the Adult Justice system.
Contributing factors to the mass rates of African-American incarceration.
What is Inner city crime, “war on drugs”, “get tough on crime” policies, school-to-prison pipeline, “three strikes policies”, mandatory minimum sentencing, etc?
Four qualifications for voting.
What is citizenship, residency, 18, and register.
This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin and the withholding federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race.
What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The state of Georgia categorizes and assesses them the same as the Fernbank science program.
What are disciplinary alternative programs?
A United States federal law providing funds to states that follow a series of federal protections, known as the "core protections," on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system.
What is Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974?
A state that has a contract to house prisoners in a private facility.
What is Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming?
They type of criminal conviction that can exclude you from voting.
What is a felony conviction?
The use of school-based police, metal detectors and security cameras in school are all examples of the ____________________ of youth.
Amendment that gives an accused person "the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury [jury of their peers] of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed."
What is "A" the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November?
The two most recent candidates to lose the Electoral College but win the Popular vote.
Who is Al Gore (2000) and Hilary Clinton (2016)?
This historic bill ushered in • $10.5 billion for new prison construction over five years and $2 million to build more boot camp programs; • youth as young as 13 can be tried as adults; • "three strikes" throughout the U.S; • and provided for an offender with one prior "violent" or "serious" felony, and if convicted again, then current sentence is to be twice the term normally sentenced for each felony.
What is the 1994 “Crime Bill”?
The popularity of private prisons can be traced back to the abolishment of this in America.
What is a fair and diverse economy, effective and engaged government, and The Bold Action for a Brighter Future Plan?