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Civil Rights - Psychology
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Definition of 'Civil Rights'Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003) Common names: Civil Rights; Civil Right; Right, Civil; Rights, Civil; Voting Rights; Right, Voting; Rights, Voting; Voting Right; Legal Rights; Legal Right; Right, Legal; Rights, Legal; Due Process; Equal Protection; Protection, Equal |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study.
30 Jul 2009 
OBJECTIVE: There may be ethical issues associated with allowing certain inpatients to vote as some may be cognitively impaired. During the 2007 elections in France, we conducted a prospective observational study on voting among hospitalized ... Read more...
Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants.
30 Dec 2008 With its landmark Jackson v. Indiana (406 U.S. 715 (1972)) decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that states may not indefinitely confine criminal defendants solely on the basis of incompetence to stand trial. While this decision led to ... Read more...
Unstable networks among women in academe: the legal case of Shyamala Rajender.
30 Dec 2008 Scientific networks are often credited with bringing about institutional change and professional advancement, but less attention has been paid to their instability and occasional failures. In the 1970s optimism among academic women was high as ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Civil Rights - Psychology'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
- Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008).
29 Apr 2009 - Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
- Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants. 30 Dec 2008
- Unstable networks among women in academe: the legal case of Shyamala Rajender. 30 Dec 2008
- Ancient law and Indian Rights: an historical perspective from the Argentine Chaco. 29 Nov 2008
- A trend analysis of sexual harassment claims: 1992-2006. 29 Nov 2008
- Differentiating between substantiated, suspected, and unsubstantiated maltreatment in Canada. 16 Aug 2008
- [Ways of physical and symbolic isolation: leprosy, its isolation spaces and the medical-legal discourse in Argentina.] 29 Jun 2008
- Parenting, family life, and well-being among sexual minorities: nursing policy and practice implications. 30 May 2008
- When disagreement gets ugly: perceptions of bias and the escalation of conflict. 30 May 2008
- Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents' reasoning about freedom of speech and minority rights. 29 Apr 2008
- Voting by older adults with cognitive impairments. 30 Jan 2008
- Developments in the law: the law of mental illness. 30 Jan 2008
- Archives and sources: the papers of Foster Gunnison, Jr, and the politics of queer preservation. 30 Dec 2007
- The rites of "Artgenossen": contesting homosexual political culture in Weimar Germany. 30 Dec 2007
- Person-centered forensic nursing. 30 Dec 2007
- Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters.
30 Oct 2007 - Intergroup contact and attitudes toward the principle and practice of racial equality. 29 Sep 2007
- Israeli psychiatric inpatients go to the polls. 30 Jul 2007
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Technical information about 'Civil Rights'
Definition: Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)
Descriptor UI: D002961
Alternative terms: Civil Rights; Civil Right; Right, Civil; Rights, Civil; Voting Rights; Right, Voting; Rights, Voting; Voting Right; Legal Rights; Legal Right; Right, Legal; Rights, Legal; Due Process; Equal Protection; Protection, Equal;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: I01.880.604.473.352; N03.706.437.352;
History Note: 68
Technical Notes: Specify geog; consider also HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE; PRIVACY ACT see PRIVACY is also available