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Prison Reform and the Confusion of Conflicting Laws

In five pages the ways in which conflicting laws contribute to confusion regarding prison reform are examined within the context o...

Youth and the Societal Roles of Juvenile Halls and Prisons

This paper consists of four pages and considers the societal roles juvenile halls and prisons play regarding youth crime. Three s...

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...

Capital Punishment or Life in Prison

executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...

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 ...

The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...

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...

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...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Wrongful Imprisonment in Colorado

under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

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...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

A Typical Day In Prison

after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...

The Effectiveness of Prison Counselors

13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...

Swedish and American Prison Systems

them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

The War on Drugs in Arizona

per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Electronic Monitoring Devices/Parolees and Prisoners

in prison (Biniok, 2004). They contend that the costs of electronic supervision are unacceptable, even that such supervision viol...

Outline of Management Values

front-line jobs entail in todays environment. D. Shared visions of the future 1. Managers are not currently "selling" new versions...

Society at Large and Prisoners

that "prison is too good" for the likes of Bernardo (Whiteley, 1998). He needs to die, note these people, die painfully and slowly...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Worldwide Prison System Ineffectiveness

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Probation Service and Ethics

absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....