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The Psychological Aspects of Prison

brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

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...

Prison Demographics

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

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...

Social Institutions and Criminology

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

Cost Effectiveness, Recidivism, and Standard Prison Settings v. Shock Incarceration Prison Camps

In twelve pages this paper assesses these two alternatives on the basis of recidivism and cost effectiveness with trends apparentl...

Troponin and Changes in Muscular Fitness During Deep Space Flight.

This 7 page paper discusses the involvement of troponin with regard to the effects of zero gravity on muscle mass. There has been ...

Racism & Adolescent Development

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Reiman's "The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison" - Drugs

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...

Life in Prison and Redemption Found There

first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...

Prison Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

to the criminal justice system (SCP, 2003). The program addresses the roots of recidivism, which are drug addiction and lack of jo...

Keeping Parolees Out of Prison

The number of prisoners that are currently incarcerated in our nations jails and prisons is growing more unmanageable by the day....

Wacquant's Prisons of Poverty

not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...

Milgram’s Shock Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

Stanford Prison Experiment

This is a controversial research study because of the trauma the participants experienced. On day 1, one participant had to leave,...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

Prison Facility Known as the Women Hope House

public proprietary facilities have been utilized as a means by which to house the additional inmates. Six of these facilities are...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

A Review of the Article Armies, Prisons and Schools

were obscene, food was atrocious, inmates wore what they wanted and they were unkempt; the cells were a mess and there were consta...

Prison and the Problems Confronting Women Who Are Incarcerated

the same degree of health care as is the rest of the community. The article focuses on a prison medical care study that was done b...

Twelve Step Prison Program in California

In five pages California's state addiction treatment program is examined with the overall plan included but concentrates on the tw...

You Got Nothing Coming Notes From a Prison Fish by Jimmy A. Lerner

page and refuses to let go even after the final word has been digested. His writing talent far surpasses what one might readily e...

Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey Reiman

laws would make people "criminals" for activities that they consider to be normal, while simultaneously increasing the need for se...

Minorities in Prison and Problems Experienced After Their Release

is in prison or jail" (The Human Rights Watch, 2000). Other minorities comprise a significant...