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Prison Gangs Gang Involvement
948 wordsWith as much gang violence that occurs within the community today you can pretty much assume that the same can be applied outside of the community. It is thought that by taking these violent gang members off the streets the violence will lessen. This may be true in bettering the community but the violence will still continue in the prison systems. By presenting this paper I plan to review gang violence in the prison systems along with an explanation of the gangs themselves. Also, certain gangs w...
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Crime And Punishment Commit Crimes
1,025 wordsAmerica has to wake up and realize that the current structure of our penal system is failing terribly. Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. There is a better way to deal with crime and punishment in America. Americans pay too much money for prisons to fail so...
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Federal And State Prison Inmates
725 wordsDrug abuse takes a toll on society that can only be partially measured. While we are able to estimate the number of drug-related crimes that occur each year, we can never determine fully the extent to which the quality of life in America's neighborhoods has been diminished by drug-related criminal behavior. With the exception of drug-related homicides, which have declined in recent years, drug-related crime is continuing at a strong and steady pace. Numerous Drug-Related Arrests Occur Each Year....
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Psychological Effects Of Zimbardo Prison Experiment
1,349 words... r job more easily. The researchers soon began to learn that there were three types of guards. The first type were the tough but fair guards. They were the ones who followed the prison rules. The second type were the good guards. They did the prisoners little favors and never punished them. The third type of guards were sadistic and enjoyed the power that they had over the prisoners. Prisoners now had no power at all. They showed their frustration in different ways. Some prisoners broke down ...
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Mother Or Father Men And Women
1,235 words"It is not a surprise to see that prisoners all have a low education level. I guess a more educated person has enough sense not to be involved with crime... the relationship between crime and education is easy to see when viewing these facts" (Cordes 1). This is the view of most people when asked why people are in prison. People simply say that criminals were ill educated. As hard as we may try, we cannot do a lot about what happens before they enter prison, but there are many programs inside pr...
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U S Department S Department Of Justice
2,649 wordsThe Effectiveness of Parole Abstract The effectiveness of parole system is an issue of the day. Although parole seems to be an effective measure aimed to reduce quantity of crimes and to enhance the level of prisoners conscience, the number of criminals and offenders who return to prison currently increases. Plenty of approaches and methods are proposed in order to improve the effectiveness of parole. The paper dwells on the parole system and assesses its effectiveness in most States. Outline In...
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Prison Guards Drug Offenders
1,886 words... are experimenting with "re-entry courts" that oversee the process of reintegration. In these courts, conditions of supervision are openly agreed to and openly enforced. If a new crime is committed, all bets are off and the parolee is prosecuted for the new crime. But violations of the conditions of parole - the technical violations that now fill up the state's prisons - are handled more along the lines of drug courts, with appropriate support services, close judicial monitoring, graduated sa...
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Mentally Ill Hiv Infected
1,349 wordsThe work is devoted to the discussion of the main problems and challenges, which exist in the modern corrections system in the USA. The problems which will be addressed in the paper will be the HIV among inmates, especially women-inmates, mental diseases in prisons and drugs abuse; they are interrelated and the discussion of these problems will be based on the six articles (see the References list) Prison Adaptation The six articles have been grouped together as being related to the same general...
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Strengths And Weaknesses Prison Labor
1,233 wordsCorrections Population Why were these articles grouped together the way they were? That is, what do the articles have in common, and how do they inform each other? These articles were grouped together because they had the common thread of violence within the correctional system that is now a national concern. Penitentiary drew attention to the potential for death and destruction that lurks in every prison. It seems that the locus of control in many prisons shifted from correctional staff to viol...
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Crime And Punishment Jack The Ripper
999 wordsCrime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments Our topic for this paper is Crime and Punishment. There are several different issues on this subject. We chose three main points to talk about: The Crimes, the People who solved them, and the different types of punishments. These are the topics we chose for our report. Crime in the nineteenth century was r...
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Past Five Years High School Seniors
7,991 wordsDrug Abuse Among American Teenagers Drug abuse in America is a major problem. Especially among teenagers. Drugs have hurt the lives of nearly 40 percent of all teenagers in America. Either with health problems, Dwi's, highway crashes, arrests, impaired school and job performance. These drugs that teenagers use range from Alcohol, LSD, Marijuana, and even Cigarettes. Most of the teenagers that are involved in drug abuse have either, broken families, parents that are drug abusers, a unstable envir...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
2,954 wordsUse federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some of today? s programs that have proven to be very effective. Gottfredson and Hirschi developed the general theory of crime. It According to their theory, the criminal act and the criminal offender are separate concepts. The criminal act is ...
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War On Drugs Drug Abuse
5,593 wordsDrug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country. Use of illegal drugs is harmful to the user and all those with whom the user comes in contact. There are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for drugs. There are more drug dealers in this country, than there are dentists. Illegal drug abuse must be stopped. Every type of insurance goes up because of drug abuse, including auto, health and homeowners. Worst of all, the crime rate...
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Sentenced To Death Crime And Punishment
3,335 wordsGreat Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime Great Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime And Punishment The World of Laws, Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel, Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of such system: the lawyer, the clerk, the judge, the prison authorities and the convicts. In treating the theme of the Vict...
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Form Of Punishment Deter Crime
1,418 wordsAmericas prisons have been called " graduate schools for crime. " It stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell- block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They take the nonviolent offender and make him a hardene...
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Controlled Substances Act Heroin Addicts
6,041 wordsIn 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miamis demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27 %, and drug se...
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Status Quo Social Consciousness
1,064 words65279; TOWARDS A CONSTITUTIVE THEORY OF LAW CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES -background of Critical Legal Studies-Critical Legal Studies v. Realism-Critical Legal Studies v. Legal Liberalism-the Critical Legal Studies position: 1) law is indeterminate i. e. law does not determine legal decisions. 2) legal decisions are dependent on the outcome of a series of contradictions in the law. 3) the way that the judges exercise their choice, and they way that contradictions in law are resolved, usually acts t...
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Amount Of Time
1,758 wordsBecause of the increase in crime in America, the public has demanded an increase in the amount of protection received from police. This increase in police protection has increased the incarceration level by numerous amounts within the last ten years. The number of inmates incarcerated in America is a direct cause of the policing that is going on in the streets of American cities. The method of policing has a tremendous impact on the outcome of the situation, meaning the type of policing determin...
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Form Of Punishment Violent Offenders
1,124 wordsPrison Prison Alternatives Prison Alternatives Prison inmates, are some of the most dysfunctional people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society. Most inmates did not learn moral values or to follow everyday norms as they were brought up in society. Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant ...
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Walking Down The Street Racial Profiling
728 wordsEducation Prop 21 Prop 21 Education is the best part of life. Education can evolve you into a better person. Education can prevent you from committing crimes and will lead you to a prosperous life. Proposition 21; The Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act aims to incarcerate disturbed youth rather then educate them. Proposition 21 creates tougher laws that are aimed toward minority teen males. Therefore Proposition 21 is a careless solution to reduce crime and is aimed toward youth and...
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