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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 ...

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...

CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

Prison Overcrowding

is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...

Incarceration and Morality

be addressing morality, with little mention of religion, for morality must be accepted and embraced in society regardless of relig...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Notorious Psychological Experiment at Stanford Prison

of psychological maladaptions. The "guards" took on sadistic tendencies and the "prisoners" showed extreme signs of stress and dep...

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...

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...

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...

California Correctional Peace Officers Association

terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

Overview of Behind a Convict's Eyes

of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...

Prison and Cell Phones

or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...

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...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...

Criminal Justice Issues

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

Justice and Ethics V

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

Overview of Prison Violence

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

Profiles of Female Prison Inmates

In ten pages this paper discusses incarcerated women in this overview of female prison inmate characteristics. Five sources are c...

Eighteenth Century Social Reformer John Howard

In nine pages this research paper discusses John Howard's 18th century prison reform efforts. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

John Coggeshall's 'Ladies Behind Bars'

of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

Protecting Prisons from HIV and AIDS

becomes the victim. By restricting the options and freedoms of the individual, control is thought to be maintained. The student ...

Prison Labor Hazards

In seven pages this paper assesses the commercial labor uses of prison inmates in terms of the hazards they may pose. Eight sourc...

All Male Prisons and Preventing Female Guards from Working There

the level of violence in mens prisons. The limited empirical research available suggested otherwise and the rules were changed to ...