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Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer"

Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes

and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Prison Privatization

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Prisons are Populated by the Wrong Offenders

(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

Overcrowding in Florida Prisons

properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...

Stanford Prison Experiment

people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...

Keeping the Lid On the Prison Population

todays correctional facilities are failing everyone: the inmates, the guards and staff, law enforcement and society in general. In...

Cabanatuan, a Textbook Operation

mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...

Possible Solutions for Overcrowded Prisons

Problem Exists In 2007, a survey showed that there were roughly 1,775 jails in U.S. towns with less than 100 beds, and this is do...

The Purpose of Prison is Punishment

This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...

Education for Prisoners Is of Vital Importance

locked up while the other half watches it. Prison populations all over the globe are exploding, with the United States as one of t...

Which Punishment is Best

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

Prison Demographics

Criminal justice in this country has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years. The costs associated with apprehen...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Social Institutions and Criminology

gangs, organized crime families, and crime in general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example cl...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

EFFICIENCIES IN THE CORRECTIONS SYSTEM

The authors also stress the need for training human capital - in other words, training personnel at corrections facilities as well...

Delinquency Topics

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

Nutrition At Auschwitz

camp (Anonymous, 2009). The kitchen, which was recognisable by the long row of 12 brick chimneys was painted white during the oper...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

A Case Study: The Restorative Justice Process

juveniles, Ed and David, breaking into and burglarizing the home of an elderly widow, Mildred. This account offers an insight into...

Prison Riots

people were injured (James, 2009). The suspected cause racial tensions between Blacks and Hispanic inmates. More than two decades...

Review of 2 Lectures

of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...

Correctional Institutiones go Hi-Tech

RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...