YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons
Essays 541 - 570
nature. Many of my friends inflict a common punishment on their young children of not allowing them to watch television for a cer...
luxury, not a right. Television and Internet access are another issue. Why should a prisoner be given...
of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...
can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...
to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...
run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...
(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...
give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...
one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...
held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...
three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...
Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...
controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...
punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...
treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...
p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...
is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...
There appear to be many attempts to alleviate the problems of overcrowding, each implemented by individual states and communities,...
Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...
Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...
of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...
and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...
(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...
fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...