YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Behind a Convicts Eyes Prison Life
Essays 511 - 540
Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...
to be the case in areas that are extremely populated. In certain venues, this is not the case but rather, there is greater attenti...
positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...
of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....
the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...
in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...
it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....
the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...
is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...
that the majority of women in prison are there for less violent crimes and that the majority may well be minorities. Interestingly...
television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...
1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...
is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...
care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...
Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...
be addressing morality, with little mention of religion, for morality must be accepted and embraced in society regardless of relig...
of psychological maladaptions. The "guards" took on sadistic tendencies and the "prisoners" showed extreme signs of stress and dep...
or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...
in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...
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...
each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...
Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...
(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...
of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...