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Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

The Superiority of Missouri's Prison and Parole System

to be the case in areas that are extremely populated. In certain venues, this is not the case but rather, there is greater attenti...

Prearrest and Program of Diversion

solve the problem of offenders like Jack, saying the country is still in the throes of determining the best methods for "dealing w...

America's Living Wills

terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...

North America's Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement

protection, and both of the nations are on an even keel as it respects economic considerations. Mexico fares much worse in that de...

Society, Crime, and the Assistance Offered by Prerelease Programs

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

Creation of America's Constitution

called upon each state to appoint a representative and attend a meeting he called the Continental Congress" (U.S. Constitution: Ba...

Orientia of the Middle East and Entry of America's General Enterprises

happens, companies and their subsidiaries can definitely suffer from the fallout. The purpose of this paper is to examine ...

Palestine and Israel Camp David II Summit and America's Role

Authority leader Yassir Arafat to broker a peace deal in the Mid-East. The two parties came close to finalizing a deal, and then t...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Latin America's Military Uses and Democratization

example, leadership style is important (14). Thus, that is a changeable factor as leadership can often be a surprise. In fact, l...

An Overview and History of the Penitentiary at Alcatraz

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

Workers' Compensation and America's Federal Law

and 1995 the service providing sector underwent a tremendous growth and the percent of U.S. employment attributed to the manufactu...

America's Latino Gang History

gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Stress Management and Prison Jobs

What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...

Economic Impact of Prisons

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

Barbara Ann Stolz's Still Struggling America's Low Income Working Women Confronting the 1980's

issues Stolz raises is the issue of the working mother. Firstly, if a woman became pregnant she was urged to quit and stay home wi...

Prison System and Privatization

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

Swedish and American Prison Systems

them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...

The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...

Prison Privatization

run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...

Immigrants and America's Borders

and cons must be heavily weighed before any legislation is passed. The arguments against opening borders to immigrants have been ...

Review of America's Progressive Era

as progressive as it may have seemed at the time, in hind sight, it may have only served to make matters worse. Immigration wa...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...