suspect classification

(noun)

When the government classifies individuals along racial lines and treats minority populations differently than the majority population.

Related Terms

Examples of suspect classification in the following topics:

  • Strict Scrutiny

    • When the court uses the strict scrutiny standard to evaluate affirmative action cases, the court is employing the standard because the court must do so in every case of suspect classification.
    • For the classification to be constitutional, the class must have experienced a history of discrimination, must be definable as a group, must have limited political powers, and its characteristic must have little relationship to the government's policy aims or the ability of the group's members to contribute to society.
    • The Supreme Court has consistently found that classification based on race, national origin, and alienage require strict scrutiny review.

  • Classification of Sentences

  • Legal Definition of Race

    • In an attempt to provide general descriptions that may facilitate the job of law enforcement officers seeking to apprehend suspects, the FBI employs the term "race" to summarize the general appearance (skin color, hair texture, eye shape, and other such easily noticed characteristics) of individuals whom they are attempting to apprehend.
    • British Police use a classification based on the ethnic background of British society, for example W1 (White-British), M1 (White and black Caribbean), and A1 (Asian-Indian).

  • Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases

    • The basic tests performed when an immunodeficiency is suspected should include a full blood count ( including accurate lymphocyte and granulocyte counts) and immunoglobulin levels.
    • A number of syndromes, including the following, escape formal classification but are otherwise recognisable by particular clinical or immunological features:

  • The Baltimore Virus Classification

    • The Baltimore classification groups viruses into families depending on their type of genome.
    • Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system.
    • Much like the classification systems used for cellular organisms, virus classification is the subject of ongoing debate and proposals.
    • As such, they do not fit neatly into the established biological classification system in place for cellular organisms.
    • List the characteristics of viruses that are useful for Baltimore classification

  • Race

    • Race has been used as a classification system to categorize humans in a variety of ways: as large and distinct populations, as groups distinguished by phenotype (observable traits and behaviors), and as groups of differing geographic ancestry and ethnicity.
    • Law enforcement officers often utilize race to profile suspects, a term commonly referred to as "racial profiling".

  • The Taxonomic Scheme

    • Bacterial taxonomy is the rank-based classification of bacteria.
    • In the scientific classification established by Carl von LinnĂ©, each distinct species is assigned to a genus using a two-part binary name (for example, Homo sapiens).
    • Despite there being little agreement on the major subgroups of the Bacteria, gram staining results were commonly used as a classification tool.
    • Until the advent of molecular phylogeny the Kingdom Prokaryotae was divided into four divisions, a classification scheme still formally followed by Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology.The various species differ amongst each other based on several characteristics determined by gram staining, which allowed their identification and classification.
    • Outline the factors that play a role in the classification of bacterial taxonomy

  • Functional Classification of Joints

    • Functional classification of joints is based on the type and degree of movement permitted.
    • The primary classifications are structural and functional.
    • Functional classification is based on the type and degree of movement permitted.

  • Virus Classification

    • To understand the features shared among different groups of viruses, a classification scheme is necessary.
    • Biologists have used several classification systems in the past, based on the morphology and genetics of the different viruses.
    • However, these earlier classification methods grouped viruses based on which features of the virus they were using to classify them.
    • The most commonly-used classification method today is called the Baltimore classification scheme which is based on how messenger RNA (mRNA) is generated in each particular type of virus.
    • The most commonly-used system of virus classification was developed by Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore in the early 1970s.

  • Other Infectious Eye Diseases

    • The following classification of herpes simplex keratitis is important for understanding this disease:
    • Laboratory tests are indicated in complicated cases when the clinical diagnosis is uncertain and in all cases of suspected neonatal herpes infection.