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American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

Historical Development of Prisons

accompanying technological advancement changed society to such an extent that people felt they had no guidelines for how to behave...

Prison: Keep Them Public Or Make Them Private?

wherewithal to actually decrease prison populations while at the same time increase community safety is found in the way public fa...

Scared Straight

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

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

"Sling Blade"

boy who have taken him into their home, and he grows ever intolerant of Doyles inhumane behavior - the same behavior he endured hi...

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,...

White Collar Crime

Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...

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...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

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

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

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

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...

The Effectiveness of Prison Counselors

13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

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

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...

English and U.S. Prisons

Sasse, 2007). Type of system/Management: One of the most important differences between the two countries, and once which has a di...

Leadership Styles of Nelson Mandela

arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Social Institutions and Criminology

gangs, organized crime families, and crime in general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example cl...