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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...

Prison Programs - The Challenge of Political Interference

all areas of society. Not only does the incidence of crime detract from the quality of life of all citizens, but citizens must als...

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

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...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Assessment of HIV Prison Population Plan for Nursing Management

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Corrections System of Germany

In five pages this paper examines 2 principles regarding the prison systems of the United States and Germany with similarities and...

Opposing Capital Punishment

In six pages this report presents a moral argument in opposition of the death penalty and also considers how a greater crime deter...

Marijuana and the Advantages of Legalization

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses how legalizing marijuana would carry with it the advantages of crime reduction, pri...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts featured in Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

Children of Parents Who Are Incarcerated

In four pages this essay considers the more than 1.5 million children whose parents are presently incarcerated and examines statis...

Argentinian Junta Survival and Alicia Partnoy's The Little School Tales of Disappearance and Survival

In five pages this paper examines prison camp survival and defying the odds as considered in this text by Alicia Partnoy on the Ar...

Literature Review on Inmates and Families Programs

In fifteen pages this research paper presents a literature review regarding programs for long term prison inmates and their famili...

Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

Female Sex Offenders and the Prison Environment

the number of suspected incidents of child abuse and neglect topped 1.9 million cases; by 1994, over 3.1 million children were rep...

HIV Prison Inmates and the Problems They Face

In six pages this research paper discusses the problem of HIV and AIDS infections among prison inmate in a consideration of the pr...

Reform Movements of the 19th Century

In five pages this paper examines antislavery, women's rights, prison, education, and temperance movements of the 19th century and...

The Use of Female Corrections Officers in Male Prisons

to fight to get into this male-dominated territory (Johnson 119). Johnson (1997) suggests that the reason women were discri...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

21st Century Corrections Changes and the Criminal Justice System

confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Article Review of 'Luxuries in Prison' by Lenz

television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...