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Prison-Industrial Complex and American Youth

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of how young people are affected by the prison industrial complex. This paper includes how ...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Research Proposal; Success Factors in Rehabilitation in Ugandan Prisons

understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

The Problem of Sexual Predators

these miscreants. However, it is often the case that the punishment is not enough. Sexual predators-until more credible research i...

Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

State and Federal Prisons

largely attributable the "War on Drugs," which has tripled the number of inmates held since the 1980s (Foster, 2006). However, sin...

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Prison Gangs and Their Effect on Prison Populations

recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Law Enforcement, Prison Overcrowding and Privatization :

While the region was relatively rural and it ultimately existed on the outskirts of the county, with many dirt roads and limited a...

Did Bradwyn Intend to Escape?

he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...

Prison Overcrowding

judges who rule that jails are overcrowded create a situation there the county or jurisdiction must act quickly. Overcrowding is q...

Prison Society and Culture

considered weak and pathetic. In particular, those who are pedophiles stand a very real chance of being killed, maimed, raped and ...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

America's First Prisons

This paper examines the very first prisons in America, and discusses the drastic differences between early and modern prison facil...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Canada's Federal Penitentiaries and Searching Visitors, Cells, and Inmates

Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drug...

Summaries of DSM IV Disorders

Communication Disorder, Not Specified. Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism-lists of symptoms are presented in 3 separate ca...

Being Single and Being in a Relationship Compared

ones self-esteem is constantly defined by the opinions of others, and confined to the very narrow parameters of whether or not one...

Alejandro Amendabar's Open Your Eyes

up falling in love with Sophia, but this situation is brief. An argument ensues that shows Nurias instability, and it is almost u...

Overview of Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors

his conviction that what she was doing for him was in his best interest. The problem was, his mother was a selfish...

The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and the Evil Protagonist

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....

Defoe's Roxana and Richardson's Pamela

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Fairytales and Sigmund Freud

In six pages the Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, and The White Snake fairytales are subjected to a Freudian psychological interpretation...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gertrude II

is affected by parental behavior. Sometimes, there is no reason other than the childs own psychological makeup. It does not seem t...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...