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State and Federal Prisons

largely attributable the "War on Drugs," which has tripled the number of inmates held since the 1980s (Foster, 2006). However, sin...

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Overcrowding, A Principal Prison System Challenge

This research paper offers an overview of literature relating to overcrowding in the US prison system. The topics covered include ...

'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

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...

An Overview and History of the Penitentiary at Alcatraz

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

Corrections Officer's Job Description

In ten pages this paper presents an overview of a corrections officer position in a discussion of the prison system, use of firear...

Overview of R.E.T.

In eleven pages Rational Emotive Therapy is presented in an overview that considers its prison system applicability. Seven source...

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,...

Family Violence and Counseling

patriarchal norms" are both contribute to the prevalence of wise abuse.5 An interesting social factor is the statistical fact that...

Prison Privatization

For and Against Public Correctional Administrator Prisons, jails, detention facilities and all other entities that comprise...

Total Quality In The Prison Setting

goals. This fit, as Austin notes, "becomes the critical task for culminating the connection...Finding the right fit is a process ...

Witnessing Violence

repeatedly when she thinks the girl is being insolent or "disrespecting" her (Cruz). We do know, however, that Jose beat Carmen, s...

Effects Of Violence In Media

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

An Analysis of Media Violence and its Impact on Children and Teens

There is no doubting the fact that the media sometimes incites violence (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006). The media is in fac...

Causes and Effects of Violence in Schools

to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

Increase in Domestic Violence

In fifteen pages domestic violence is examined in terms of abuse types, statistical data, myths surrounding it, cycle of violence ...

Violence in Children and Psychosocial Theory

In six pages this paper examines violence and its subculture in a consideration of real life cases and discussion of various socio...

Impact of Media Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how violence is incited by the media and also considers the health impact of violence. Four so...

Scholastic Performance and Violence in Schools

In five pages this paper examines how schools are addressing problems of violence and also considers if such violence has an impac...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

Tiger or Trigger Abu Nidal

this call was rejected, the pan-Arabists were able to influence the final text of Faths internal regulations, approved at the thir...

Symbolic Violence and Reporting

habits the listening to the news and the reading of papers with reports may be seen as an influencing factor, propagating the mass...

Children, Violence, and TV

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Domestic Violence History

In five pages this paper examines domestic violence in a historical consideration that considers the infamous O.J. Simpson case wh...