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Delinquency Topics

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

Aggression in Prisons

family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...

Prison Riots

people were injured (James, 2009). The suspected cause racial tensions between Blacks and Hispanic inmates. More than two decades...

Review of 2 Lectures

of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...

Correctional Institutiones go Hi-Tech

RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...

Obtaining Information for Violence

250 people injured (James, 2009). Racial tensions between Hispanic and Black inmates were identified as the cause (James, 2009)....

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

A Case Study: The Restorative Justice Process

juveniles, Ed and David, breaking into and burglarizing the home of an elderly widow, Mildred. This account offers an insight into...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

Penal Injustices and Morality Theory

This paper contends the US prison system is a moral hubris and deserved of significant ethical reform. There are three sources in...

Overcrowding, A Principal Prison System Challenge

This research paper offers an overview of literature relating to overcrowding in the US prison system. The topics covered include ...

Overcrowding in US Jails, Prisons

This essay offers an argument that it is a moral and ethical outrage that overcrowding in the nation's jails and prisons has been ...

Ways to See and Panopticon

The title reflects two essay written by two different authors. John Berger wrote the first one about art and images while Michael ...

DNA Testing, Exoneration

This paper concerns Marvin L. Anderson, who spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The writer discusses how ...

Should We Privatize Enforcement

The question this paper discusses has to do with privatizing prisons. There are at least 100 across the United States. One author ...

Recidivism in the United States

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at prison recidivism. Issues of racial disparity in recidivism are also noted. Paper u...

Differences between the Genders, Prison Experience

This research paper addresses the differences in the ways that men and women experience prison, as well as the legislation impleme...

Prison Overcrowding

This research paper pertains to overcrowding in prisons and asserts that this constitutes the most significant challenge facing th...

Irrational Acts in Law Enforcement

There were major scandals at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory. False, inaccurate, and misinformation were all part...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Prison Privatization

run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...

Economic Impact of Prisons

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Prison System and Privatization

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Stress Management and Prison Jobs

What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...