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Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

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

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...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

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...

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,...

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...

Prison Overcrowding

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

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...

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 ...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes

and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...

Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer"

Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...

Jeffrey Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison"

(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Prisons are Populated by the Wrong Offenders

(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...

Prison Privatization

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

Correctional Psychologists

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

CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

The Psychological Aspects of Prison

brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Race and the Prison System

racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...

Prison Overcrowding

the prison is not supposed to be a box for the miscreants to fester, but a real place for them to learn to become better people. H...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Swedish and American Prison Systems

them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...

The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...