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Ricardo Torres

Unversity of Texas at El Paso

RWS 1301 MWF

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to gather resources and to identify which of my

resources are credible to my research question. The basic meaning of my research is to find

information on my topic (criminal justice) and my subject (ageism) and how they co-relate to my

local community which is the UTEP environment. The problem is to confirm any known activity

or any current issues with ageism in the criminal justice program at UTEP or if there has not

been any issues with ageism. This research helped me because it provided insight on my topic

and taught me more about my community but more importantly the essence of the discourse

community at the University of Texas at El Paso

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I hope to discover if the criminal justice department has or had issues with age

discrimination with not only young scholars, but with professors and older scholars. I

hope to discover connections between my major criminal justice, and my topic

ageism. I have not yet to discover much information but I feel the more that I look

into it the more I seem to get the concepts of both ageism and my major criminal

justice. It is hard to find resources that relate to each other especially as specific as

criminal justice department at UTEP and ageism. I hope to also discover in the history

of ageism at UTEP and how it has changed over time and what age groups were

affected by this. I also hope to discover how it has made our community better and the

benefits from aborting age discrimination. I plan to get there by using more research

and better understanding of my community (UTEP) and my major to connect it with

ageism and how that discourse community was affected. I also plan to get there by

personally going to the criminal justice program and asking about ageism and the

issue it has had at UTEP.

Research questions

1. Is the Criminal justice program at UTEP researching ageism?

2. What kind of impact did ageism have on the criminal justice program?
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Ageism. (2017). Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, , 1p. 1. Retrieved from http://0-

search.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=funk&AN=AG037350&si

te=eds-live&scope=site

According to Funk and Walls New World Encyclopedia, people may face ageism if they

are believed to be too young or too old for a certain job, activity, or responsibility.

Ageism can isolate people from mainstream society and severely limit their opportunities

and social roles. Very little ageism occurs in the united states as of today but was mainly

controlled to the ageism act in the 1960s. according to the source, today, many

governments seek to protect people against age discrimination. In the United States, for

instance, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 seeks to eliminate ageism

in the workplace

Ageism an attitude from the middle ages. (2017, 09/29; 2018/1). The Sydney Morning Herald

(Sydney, Australia), pp. 9. Retrieved

from http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A506967167/SUIC?u=j071902012&xid=e643fc

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According to the source, a leading social welfare group will form a coalition to tackle

ageism in what is being described as Australia's biggest campaign to reframe attitudes

towards growing older. Benevolent Society executive director Kirsty Nowlan said the

research, The Drivers of Ageism, showed a mismatch between perceptions about ageing

and reality. The Benevolent Society announced its campaign every age counts on

Thursday, launching a report that revealed concerning findings about growing older. The

sources claim actually talks about how ageism affects the economy in a bad way because
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of the discrimination of older people and how the growing number of younger people

decline in the economy.

Age discrimination. (2006). In J. Wilson (Ed.), Gale encyclopedia of everyday law (2nd ed. ed.,

pp. 197-200). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved

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According to Wilson, age discrimination occurs when an older person is pressured in the

workplace to leave. Under the law a person's career cannot be jeopardized solely because

of age. Unfortunately, many employers resort to subtler but equally damaging tactics to

thin the ranks of older workers. The author talks about how the older class of workers are

affected by employment by the tangible effect and how it can not only affect and older

worker to keep a job but to even find a new job. This can cause major jeopardy to the

unemployed middle-aged worker to have a lot of stress on how they will provide income

for their families.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was passed by Congress in 1967. The

ADEA extends the law as spelled out in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits

discrimination based on race, sex, creed, color, religion, or ethnic origin.

Fagan, J. (2008). Juvenile crime and criminal justice: Resolving border disputes. The Future of

Children, 18(2), 81-118. Retrieved from http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/20179980

According to Fagan the proliferation of transfer regimes over the past several decades

calls into question the very rationale for a juvenile court. Many cases including ageism

with underage juveniles have been discriminated with court jurisdiction over the
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appropriate age for juveniles. According to Fagan over a century ago, juvenile court

judges were given the option to expel cases and transfer them to criminal court. Fagan

makes arguments for age discrimination for the younger age group about being tried in

court as an adult so the consequences are unfair. He stated that the juvenile court exposes

adolescents to harsh and unfair sentences.

Roberts, Betty. Middle-Ages Dropouts. (copyright 1980). Schenkman Publishing Company.

According to Betty Roberts, her book describes her findings of two years of research

among some of those “career dropouts”. During the end of her research she claims that

she has dozens of people of whom she still had not interviewed but felt the research she

had was more than enough to establish her argument. Roberts conducts a research to

provide evidence of ageism towards older people and how they are forced to drop out

from their job because they are simply “too old” and explains how it changes their lives.

As she interviews these people she explains how they dropout why they dropped out and

they dramatic changes that forced them to adapted to their new dropped-out lives.

Sutter, M., Perrin, P. B., Tabaac, A. R., Parsa, L., & Mickens, M. (2017). Do ableism and ageism

predict college students’ willingness to provide care for a family member with a chronic

health condition? Stigma and Health, 2(2), 110-120. 10.1037/sah0000045 Retrieved

from http://0-

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According to Megan Sutter, Future research and interventions to identify methods to

reduce ageism may lead to later willingness to provide care and improved quality of care
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toward older adults. U.S. population of older adults with chronic health conditions grows,

there will be an increasing number of college-age students who are introduced to

informal caregiving responsibilities. Despite the aging of the population, there is a dearth

of information regarding college-age caregivers, who are a demographic likely to provide

care for their family members. She explains that as older people with chronic health

condition grows their kids who are most likely in college will have to have the

responsibility to care for them and it just causes more stress on the students.

Themes of ageism at work. (2017, 06/06; 2018/1). The Newcastle Herald (Newcastle, Australia),

pp. 16. Retrieved

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According to the Newcastle, it’s true that unemployment is higher among younger than

older adults. But there's a trend among the latter that's especially disturbing. When

unemployed, they stay there much longer. A study led by the University of Melbourne, due

to be published, goes some way in explaining why that's the case, at least from the

perspective of those who feel employers are discriminating against them. In a series of

interviews based in Sydney, the Gold Coast and Melbourne, three ageism themes emerged.

According to new castle, the younger class of adults are being discriminated in occupation

situations compared to older adults because they are not getting the chance to work because

of their age.