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Essays 331 - 360
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...
offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...
them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...
available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...
2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...
sector in the form of assets and labor which provides the revenue which supports the consumption of households (Scott and Derrick,...
sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...
after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...
13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...
under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...
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...
sex taking place-inclusive of rape-- and so, there is a greater chance of transmission. Its prevalence in prison has been supporte...
Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...
arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...
Sasse, 2007). Type of system/Management: One of the most important differences between the two countries, and once which has a di...
no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents - all these situations contribute to the lack of a childs moral an...
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...
Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...
each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...
(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...
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...
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...
Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...