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'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...

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...

Prisons Should be Privatized

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

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...

'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...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

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 ...

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,...

Society and Violence in the Prison Text In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott

In 3 pages this paper discusses how Jack Henry Abbott depicted life in prison in his text In the Belly of the Beast. A FREE outli...

Euthanasia and the Controversial Dr. Jack Kevorkian

In five pages the controversial practice of euthanasia, the role played by Dr. Kevorkian and his prison sentence are analyzed in a...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

Prison Setting and Token Economy Uses

Iin ten pages this paper discuses how in a prison setting sex offender compliance issues can be effectively address through token ...

'Cloudy Day' by Jimmy Santiago Baca

inventing culture and later revitalizing it, making use of humor and symbolic inversion to illuminate the inevitable contradiction...

Reform and Prisons

This paper consists of six pages and considers the lack of success with reforming the prison system in a consideration of perpetua...

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...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Child Abuse Victims and Whether or Not They Become Abusers in Adulthood

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the causes, definitions, and incidences of child abuse and includes theories, stati...

Overview of R.E.T.

In eleven pages Rational Emotive Therapy is presented in an overview that considers its prison system applicability. Seven source...

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...

Ancient Prisons

In seven pages this research paper explores ancient 'prisons' in a consideration of Old and New Testament lands of Rome, Greece, E...

Prison Alternative of Halfway Houses

In seven pages this paper examines the substitution of prison time with halfway houses in terms of effectiveness and finds some of...

Violence in U.S. Prisons

In fourteen pages this paper considers the causes and possible solutions to U.S. prison violence. Eight sources are cited in the ...

Prison Suicide Prevention

In eighteen pages this paper discusses a proposed program and financial plan for the prevention of inmate suicides in prison. Eig...

Controversy Regarding Guidelines for Legislative Sentencing

In twelve pages this research paper discusses crime sentencing, politics, and the controversy surrounding legislative guidelines r...

Minorities and Prisons

at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...

Comparative Analysis of American and Swedish Prisons

This paper consists of thirteen pages and contrasts and compares the prisons in the United States and Sweden in terms of their sim...

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...

Prison System Education and Visitation

luxury, not a right. Television and Internet access are another issue. Why should a prisoner be given...

Criminal Recidivism

the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or...