YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Psychological Aspects of Prison
Essays 331 - 360
in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...
solve the problem of offenders like Jack, saying the country is still in the throes of determining the best methods for "dealing w...
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...
or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...
of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...
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...
p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...
treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...
Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...
run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...
give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...
population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...
can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...
to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...
(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...
held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...
three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...
Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...
one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...
training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...
is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...
be addressing morality, with little mention of religion, for morality must be accepted and embraced in society regardless of relig...
hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...
care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...
Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...