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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...

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...

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 ...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Corrections Officer's Job Description

In ten pages this paper presents an overview of a corrections officer position in a discussion of the prison system, use of firear...

'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...

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 ...

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...

An Overview and History of the Penitentiary at Alcatraz

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

Overview of R.E.T.

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

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

Family Violence and Counseling

patriarchal norms" are both contribute to the prevalence of wise abuse.5 An interesting social factor is the statistical fact that...

Prison Privatization

For and Against Public Correctional Administrator Prisons, jails, detention facilities and all other entities that comprise...

Total Quality In The Prison Setting

goals. This fit, as Austin notes, "becomes the critical task for culminating the connection...Finding the right fit is a process ...

Violence in the Media and TV

In seven pages this essay condemns the increasing violence being shown on television and provides research study evidence regardin...

Violence and Video Games

top out at $500 million (Elmer-Dewitt, Dickerson and Jackson PG). "Mortal Kombat", one of the games which is considered more viol...

An Analysis of Media Violence and its Impact on Children and Teens

There is no doubting the fact that the media sometimes incites violence (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006). The media is in fac...

Teen Violence and the Media

which was, to varying degrees, dependent upon the actual research (1994). Gender did not seem to be a significant factor. ...

Senate Bill 1429

In five pages this paper discusses the violence prevention efforts detailed in S.B. 1329 and its Prairie View A and M University v...

Witnessing Violence

repeatedly when she thinks the girl is being insolent or "disrespecting" her (Cruz). We do know, however, that Jose beat Carmen, s...

Effects Of Violence In Media

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

Symbolic Violence and Reporting

habits the listening to the news and the reading of papers with reports may be seen as an influencing factor, propagating the mass...

Causes and Effects of Violence in Schools

to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...

Scholastic Performance and Violence in Schools

In five pages this paper examines how schools are addressing problems of violence and also considers if such violence has an impac...

Tiger or Trigger Abu Nidal

this call was rejected, the pan-Arabists were able to influence the final text of Faths internal regulations, approved at the thir...

The Social Issue of Desensitization to Violence as a Result of Media Exposure

view of the systems and factors that impact the development of the mind. The philosophical premise was linked to the assessment of...

APARTHEID, MANDELA AND THE ANC: VIOLENCE OR NON-VIOLENCE?

not, however, was non-violence. A Brief History of Apartheid and the ANC Weve pointed out that the struggle against aparthe...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...