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Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Newgate Prison

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

Gobbet Analyses in the UK

treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

'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...

Assessment of HIV Prison Population Plan for Nursing Management

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...

Article Review of 'Luxuries in Prison' by Lenz

television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

Women and Incarceration Conditions

that the majority of women in prison are there for less violent crimes and that the majority may well be minorities. Interestingly...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

'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...

Prisons Should be Privatized

controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...

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...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Economic Impact of Prisons

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

Prison System and Privatization

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

Stress Management and Prison Jobs

What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Economic and Social Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Notorious Psychological Experiment at Stanford Prison

of psychological maladaptions. The "guards" took on sadistic tendencies and the "prisoners" showed extreme signs of stress and dep...

Incarceration and Morality

be addressing morality, with little mention of religion, for morality must be accepted and embraced in society regardless of relig...