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Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Response To Doubling Armed Robbery Sentence

as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding has already reached epidemic proportions. Two of the mo...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Canada and Bank Robberies

Canada, published in 1995 by Nelson Canada. This paper will answer some questions about bank robberies in Canada by supplying pert...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

The Military, Respect and Discipline

on earth, and could not function without discipline. This paper considers the necessity for discipline and respect in the military...

American Constitution, the Second Amendment, and the National Rifle Association

the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individu...

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...

Prison Violence

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

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...

Integrating Information about Violence in Prisons

2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...

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 ...

HIV in the California Prison System

economic and historical issues surrounding the problem of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall pro...

The Importance of Prison Reform

Indeed, the law is not perfect, which is why the average citizen should care about the prison system. Even if they do not break th...

Overcrowding of Prisons

Building the new prison was supposed "expunge a stigma" from the state, and "Maine officials expected the savings in operating exp...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

Special Interest Lobbying Groups and Guns

were sufficient to do so is not surprising nor it is unethical. Special interest groups fund organizations that promote their goa...

Gun Ownership and the Rights of the People

Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what theyre increasingly demanding is rational cont...

Alice Walker's Activist Message that Anything We Love Can be Saved as a Call to Arms

This is a critical analysis of a pair of essays contained in Alice Walker's collection of activist messages, Anything We Love Can ...

Twenty First Century and Private Ownership of Firearms

In twenty pages this report discusses how the 'right to bear arms' is no longer relevant in the twenty first century world and pri...

2nd Amendment and Gun Control

In fourteen pages this research paper supports the 2nd Amendment's declaration of an American's 'right to bear arms' and opposes g...

Gun Control an the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution

argue, the amendment is no longer necessary--we have won our civil war. To them, the amendment represents a guarantee to form mil...

3 Points Pertaining to a 'Limited' Nuclear War

In six pages this paper argues in support of a 'limited' nuclear war in a consideration of its major points such as environmental ...

EFFICIENCIES IN THE CORRECTIONS SYSTEM

The authors also stress the need for training human capital - in other words, training personnel at corrections facilities as well...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

The Prison-Industrial Complex and Its Consequences

This paper pertains to the subject of private prisons and their effects, which include large penalties to state if the prisons are...