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Parole and Probation Alternative Approaches

while on probation, to the extent that "the issue of recidivism among these offenders cannot be underestimated, since this has a d...

Repeat Offenders After Probation and or Parole

Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...

Recidivism and Drug Treatment

to the threats to internal validity are an important component of any research design. The first threat to internal validity is...

Rate of Recidivism and Drug Use

Before delving into proving the thesis, looking at relevant literature and statistics, it is important to look at drug use and its...

Reform and Prisons

This paper consists of six pages and considers the lack of success with reforming the prison system in a consideration of perpetua...

Rates of Success and Recidivism Impacts of Juvenile Delinquent Programs versus Juvenile Boot Camp

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

Pros and Cons of Juvenile Boot Camps

This paper consists of eight pages and assesses boot camps for juvenile offenders in terms of their pros and cons with such issues...

Community Notification on Reported Sex Offenders

is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...

Applied Research Project Proposal on Recidivism and Training of Offenders

Over the course of the last decade, researchers, social and criminal theorists, and the general public have debated the issue of p...

Concepts of Jail Overcrowding

to 75 percent of inmates presently serving drug related sentences (What Causes Overcrowding in Jails and Prisons). Next, mandator...

A Probation Officer's View Of Effectiveness

OF EFFECTIVENESS The new evaluation format proposes the following theories: 1) use recidivism statistics as a guide to improvemen...

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...

Prison Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

to the criminal justice system (SCP, 2003). The program addresses the roots of recidivism, which are drug addiction and lack of jo...

Reducing Recidivism

The problems inherent in substance abuse must be addressed if recidivism is to be reduced. This eleven page paper lists ten sourc...

The Advantages of Community Corrections Programs

The author discusses the positives of widening the net, how job training and even increased visitation with family can lessen reci...

Journal Article Review Delinquency

This essay reports an empirical research study that focused on the effect of neighborhoods on juvenile delinquency and recidivism....

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

Corrections: Rehabilitation or Punishment

it is the job of the corrections system to punish offenders or rehabilitate them, and the two goals seem to be mutually exclusive....

Court-Ordered Rehabilitation

is drug use after program completion (or release from incarceration). Method The research design to be used in this project ca...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

Criminal Justice and the EPICS Program

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Keeping Parolees Out of Prison

The number of prisoners that are currently incarcerated in our nations jails and prisons is growing more unmanageable by the day....

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States

comes to women and employment. Women are still often held back from being able to obtain high level positions in many organization...

Workforce Development Issues in Adult Education

think that adult education is a new idea. Yet, adult education is something that is an old institution. The first adult educatio...

Abortion in the United States

the fact that regardless of whether or not abortions are legal, women will still get abortions. These were, and are, referred to a...

China: Human Rights

A 3 page paper that argues for the United States putting more diplomatic and economic pressure on China to improve their human rig...

The Effects Of Genetic Engineering And Chemical Additives To Basic Food Production In The United States

demineralization two of the most important factors. Storing food has undergone significant modification due to the distance commo...