YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery
Essays 421 - 450
prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...
available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...
brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...
health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...
Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...
racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...
the prison is not supposed to be a box for the miscreants to fester, but a real place for them to learn to become better people. H...
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 ...
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 ...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...
fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...
(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...
Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...
of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...
and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...
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 ...
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...
care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...
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 ...
(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...
Criminal justice in this country has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years. The costs associated with apprehen...
locked up while the other half watches it. Prison populations all over the globe are exploding, with the United States as one of t...