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Criminal Justice Issues

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

Eighteenth Century Social Reformer John Howard

In nine pages this research paper discusses John Howard's 18th century prison reform efforts. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

Profiles of Female Prison Inmates

In ten pages this paper discusses incarcerated women in this overview of female prison inmate characteristics. Five sources are c...

Articles on Counseling Examined

Six articles related to various types of counseling are discussed in seventeen pages and include among others such methods as viol...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and its Relevance

authors have done this as well. The book and film Midnight Express shows that other countries are not like the more civilized nati...

Prison Labor Hazards

In seven pages this paper assesses the commercial labor uses of prison inmates in terms of the hazards they may pose. Eight sourc...

All Male Prisons and Preventing Female Guards from Working There

the level of violence in mens prisons. The limited empirical research available suggested otherwise and the rules were changed to ...

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...

Prison System and Drug Programs

In ten pages prison systems and drug use are examined in a discussion of penal system drug addiction program implementation. Four...

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...

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...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

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

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 ...

White Collar Crime

Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...

Why the Segregation of the HIV Prison Population Is Ethical

sex taking place-inclusive of rape-- and so, there is a greater chance of transmission. Its prevalence in prison has been supporte...

Circular Flow of Goods; A Case Study

sector in the form of assets and labor which provides the revenue which supports the consumption of households (Scott and Derrick,...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Prison Overcrowding

There appear to be many attempts to alleviate the problems of overcrowding, each implemented by individual states and communities,...

The Welfare States in the UK

crime rates were rising and inflation was rife (Slack, 1990). The main aims were to reduce the extreme levels of poverty, but many...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

The Problems of Landlocked States

Hodder & Lloyd (1998), Africa has the majority of land-locked states. Not all continents have to deal with the problem of having a...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...