SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literature on Inmate Reform

Essays 61 - 90

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Autistic Children Interventions

autistic children (Sallows and Graupner, 2005). In Sallows and Graupner (2005), 48 percent of the group were enrolled and perfor...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

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...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Did Bradwyn Intend to Escape?

he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...

Prisoners: Lower Moral Development

criminology, Lombroso recognized similarities between humans and rodents that led him to believe how people can, indeed, exhibit c...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...

A Typical Day In Prison

after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...

Concepts of Jail Overcrowding

to 75 percent of inmates presently serving drug related sentences (What Causes Overcrowding in Jails and Prisons). Next, mandator...

Canada's Federal Penitentiaries and Searching Visitors, Cells, and Inmates

Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drug...

Study Sample and an Application of Statistical Analysis

30 of the respondents or 32.6% had no history of abuse. 24 respondents equating to 26.08% of the sample had a history of abuse as ...

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...

A Personal Statement of the Meaning of Literature

I can find myself truly empathizing with the individual. If the story is written from the third person perspective then it is like...

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...

'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...

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

Overview of Criminal Rehabilitation

In nine pages criminal rehabilitation is examined in terms of the crime deterrence of the death penalty and statistics regarding i...

Corrections, Control, and Privileges of Prison Recreation

In twenty five pages this paper examines the control issues associated with prison inmate recreation and considers whether or not ...

Rights of Inmates

In seven pages the rights of inmates are assessed from security and safety perspectives. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Frivolous Lawsuit Filing by Prison Inmates

In ten pages this paper discusses prison inmate filing of frivolous lawsuits in the U.S. in a consideration of statistical data an...

Inmate Luxuries and U.S. Prison System Problems

nature. Many of my friends inflict a common punishment on their young children of not allowing them to watch television for a cer...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

Asylums and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages this paper considers the practice of institutionalizing people who are mentally ill but still capable of functioning...

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....

Prison Suicide Prevention

In eighteen pages this paper discusses a proposed program and financial plan for the prevention of inmate suicides in prison. Eig...

Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking

In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...

'Characteristics of Total Institutions' by Erving Goffman

This paper consists of four pages and considers Goffman's article in a micro and macro comparison of cultural themes, adaptation a...