YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Psychological Aspects of Prison
Essays 301 - 330
give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...
venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...
because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...
"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...
(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...
What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...
13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...
under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...
2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...
after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...
is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...
training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...
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...
prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...
pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...
health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...
Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...
racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...
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...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...
arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...
them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...
offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...
of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...
hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...