YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Historical Development of Prisons
Essays 331 - 360
The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...
Prisons are the way most of the world chooses to punish criminals for their crimes. The specifics of a prison, however, can...
deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...
properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...
all areas of society. Not only does the incidence of crime detract from the quality of life of all citizens, but citizens must als...
The effective apprehension, trial, and incarceration of criminals are predicated on integrity at all levels of the criminal justic...
treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...
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...
1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...
television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...
Problem Exists In 2007, a survey showed that there were roughly 1,775 jails in U.S. towns with less than 100 beds, and this is do...
This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...
mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...
people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...
to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...
terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...
Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...
solve the problem of offenders like Jack, saying the country is still in the throes of determining the best methods for "dealing w...
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...
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...
controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...
p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...
in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...
one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...
(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...
because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...