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In nine pages this research paper discusses John Howard's 18th century prison reform efforts. Five sources are cited in the bibli...
In seven pages this paper assesses the commercial labor uses of prison inmates in terms of the hazards they may pose. Eight sourc...
the level of violence in mens prisons. The limited empirical research available suggested otherwise and the rules were changed to ...
authors have done this as well. The book and film Midnight Express shows that other countries are not like the more civilized nati...
Six articles related to various types of counseling are discussed in seventeen pages and include among others such methods as viol...
Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...
Prisons are the way most of the world chooses to punish criminals for their crimes. The specifics of a prison, however, can...
The effective apprehension, trial, and incarceration of criminals are predicated on integrity at all levels of the criminal justic...
pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...
prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...
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...
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...
offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...
The authors also stress the need for training human capital - in other words, training personnel at corrections facilities as well...
to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...
camp (Anonymous, 2009). The kitchen, which was recognisable by the long row of 12 brick chimneys was painted white during the oper...
juveniles, Ed and David, breaking into and burglarizing the home of an elderly widow, Mildred. This account offers an insight into...
the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...
The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...
of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...
RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...
250 people injured (James, 2009). Racial tensions between Hispanic and Black inmates were identified as the cause (James, 2009)....
family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at prison recidivism. Issues of racial disparity in recidivism are also noted. Paper u...
This research paper offers an overview of literature relating to overcrowding in the US prison system. The topics covered include ...
This essay offers an argument that it is a moral and ethical outrage that overcrowding in the nation's jails and prisons has been ...