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Irrational Acts in Law Enforcement

There were major scandals at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory. False, inaccurate, and misinformation were all part...

A Case Study: The Restorative Justice Process

juveniles, Ed and David, breaking into and burglarizing the home of an elderly widow, Mildred. This account offers an insight into...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

Recidivism in the United States

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at prison recidivism. Issues of racial disparity in recidivism are also noted. Paper u...

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...

Solutions for California Prison Overcrowding

The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Nutrition At Auschwitz

camp (Anonymous, 2009). The kitchen, which was recognisable by the long row of 12 brick chimneys was painted white during the oper...

Delinquency Topics

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

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...

Aggression in Prisons

family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...

Obtaining Information for Violence

250 people injured (James, 2009). Racial tensions between Hispanic and Black inmates were identified as the cause (James, 2009)....

Prison Riots

people were injured (James, 2009). The suspected cause racial tensions between Blacks and Hispanic inmates. More than two decades...

Review of 2 Lectures

of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...

Correctional Institutiones go Hi-Tech

RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

A Typical Day In Prison

after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...

The Effectiveness of Prison Counselors

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

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

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

Social Institutions and Criminology

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

Prison Demographics

Criminal justice in this country has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years. The costs associated with apprehen...