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Leadership Styles of Nelson Mandela

arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

The Psychological Aspects of Prison

brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Race and the Prison System

racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...

Education for Prisoners Is of Vital Importance

locked up while the other half watches it. Prison populations all over the globe are exploding, with the United States as one of t...

Which Punishment is Best

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

Prison Demographics

Criminal justice in this country has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years. The costs associated with apprehen...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Social Institutions and Criminology

gangs, organized crime families, and crime in general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example cl...

Cabanatuan, a Textbook Operation

mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...

Stanford Prison Experiment

people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...

Prison Programs - The Challenge of Political Interference

all areas of society. Not only does the incidence of crime detract from the quality of life of all citizens, but citizens must als...

Keeping the Lid On the Prison Population

todays correctional facilities are failing everyone: the inmates, the guards and staff, law enforcement and society in general. In...

The Purpose of Prison is Punishment

This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...

Cost Effectiveness, Recidivism, and Standard Prison Settings v. Shock Incarceration Prison Camps

In twelve pages this paper assesses these two alternatives on the basis of recidivism and cost effectiveness with trends apparentl...

The Transformation of Ballot Initiatives In California

16 pages and 13 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of ballot initiatives in California. This paper s...

The Law and Doctor-Patient Sexual Contact in California

directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitation (Anderson, 2000), which is part of 42 C.F.R. ? 100...

The Teaching of Math in California

ways in which to qualify students for the GATE program. Students who are advanced in mathematics would be exposed to higher grade ...

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

Growth In San Luis Obispo County

home to a diverse population of college students (Cal Poly), families and retirees alike, making the ongoing growth process its ci...

California Medical Law Case

the patient (Overview of California Civil Lawsuit Filing Procedures, n.d.). This restriction may or may not apply in Dr. Sanders ...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

Prison Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

to the criminal justice system (SCP, 2003). The program addresses the roots of recidivism, which are drug addiction and lack of jo...

Prisons and Women

placed in prison primarily for economic crimes (Anonymous, 2002). These crimes can include check forgery and illegal credit card u...

Prison and the Problems Confronting Women Who Are Incarcerated

the same degree of health care as is the rest of the community. The article focuses on a prison medical care study that was done b...

A Review of the Article Armies, Prisons and Schools

were obscene, food was atrocious, inmates wore what they wanted and they were unkempt; the cells were a mess and there were consta...