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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...

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...

Overview of R.E.T.

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

'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...

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 ...

Correctional Psychologists

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Protecting People from Workplace Violence

Of course, some may think that such legal tactics go too far. After all, a violent workplace offender should be responsible for hi...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Children, Violence, and TV

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

Domestic Violence and Gender Stereotyping

husband. In many physical abuse situations, no one person controls all aspects of the home other than the male, including all pro...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

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...

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...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

Differences Between Domestic Violence and Other Types of Violence

common, and even hitting children with sticks or belts has been common and often recommended through history for controlling child...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Media Violence Influences Teen Violence

the radar," so to speak of most parents as research indicates that once children reach high school, parents rarely check the ratin...