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This 9 page paper discusses the ramifications of integrating diversity training and cultural education into the criminal justice system. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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their fellow man. In a recent study this year, formerly held beliefs about the benefits of hiring police officers so as to ensure a racially diverse police department were challenged
and evaluated. The researchers determined to discover if racial diversity training was mere window dressing or if it really made a difference in the overall productivity of the departments as
a whole. While the results were mixed, what becomes clear from an examination of the study is that having some knowledge about various cultures aids in the understanding and application
of justice in a diverse and multicultural nation. Many studies have been conducted on the issue, but few have studied the phenomenon as it applies to a police department.
However, the studies that have been conducted have all come to similar conclusions and implementations. According to Ellis Cashmores report "Behind the window dressing: ethnic minority police
perspectives on cultural diversity" as published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, diversity can really be said to take on many different roles. For the chief of
police, this diversity can be an advantage if examined closely. Many when they think diversity, think of the term race, but diversity is really so much more than the color
of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches problem solving. This, then,
is where the astute manager can create a team of very knowledgeable and effective crime solving units and squads. According to the study, the student should add, the most effective
precincts shared some of the same characteristics. Namely, the chief had taken the time to assess his departments by individuals and by section. This gave him/her a more complete idea
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