Texas Prison Reform: A Success Story Government The prison population in the United States experienced an unprecedented expansion between the 1970s and the end of the first decade of the 21st century (Editorial Board, 2013). Beginning with a prison Continue Reading...
Youth Victimization While for many people the tendency to ascribe the status of victim to a fellow individual is often motivated by prejudicial factors such as race or gender, current research indicates that age is also a primary determinant affecti Continue Reading...
Correctional institutions have enhanced in quality and condition over the years. What started out as dungeons and sewers in Rome, the conditions for correctional institutions have improved to quite an extent. In the 1980s, overcrowding became a renow Continue Reading...
Putting the defendant in jail for life is, simply put, a violation of the Eighth Amendment - cruel and unjust punishment. King Brothers Case This case followed directly on the heels of the Tate case, but provides less of a defense to the children Continue Reading...
qualified candidate who demonstrates professionalism and aptitude in the field of private security, I urge you to consider the following BSCJA courses that I have recently completed with aplomb. Through this coursework, I have met and surpassed all Continue Reading...
Positive Philosophy in Law Thomas Aquinas and Hans Kelsen held that the law enforced by human courts is indeed a positive law. Legal philosophers have since come up with a flurry of arguments claiming that positive law must have its source and conte Continue Reading...
Literature Review Domestic disputes, domestic violence, family violence, or intimate partner violence are terms often used interchangeably and usually are related to conflicts between or among family members (Buzawa et al. 2008). Whatever it is la Continue Reading...
Prison overcrowding is indeed a grave problem that many states face. It is a phenomenon that both the international and national parties have faced for decades (Howard,1996). Overcrowded correction facilities may lead to the failures of programs in t Continue Reading...
What clues should law enforcement look for to identify potential meth labs in a residential neighborhood?Clues the law enforcement can leverage to identify meth labs first begins with the behaviors of those within the neighborhood. Here law enforceme Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Theory and the Los Angeles County Probation Department Criminal and antisocial behaviors have been studied in the field of criminology for many years. Criminologists are very interested to learn what types of things cause specific c Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION Conceptual Paper Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
United States has the highest rate of confinement of prisoners per 100,000 population than any other Western country. Analyze this phenomena and discuss actions that you feel are necessary to combat this problem. The United States currently has the Continue Reading...
Preventing Crime Will Be More Effective Than Rehabilitation Pennsylvania Preventing Crime May Be More Effective Than Rehabilitation This paper reviews Pennsylvania policymakers approach to crime. In particular the researcher explores the idea th Continue Reading...
The inclusion of alcohol and drug education is a vital component of most drug and alcohol abuse interventions, for both the users and non-user. (Montagne et al., 1992). This education can be offered as a preventive measure to beginners of abuse of Continue Reading...
Title: Transforming the Future: The Need for Prison Reform Prison reform has become an increasingly important topic in discussions about justice, rehabilitation, and human rights. The current state of the prison system in many countries is character Continue Reading...
Restorative Justice Approaches Reduce Youth Offending Restorative justice is a new paradigm within the criminal justice, particularly in the context of youth offenders. The philosophy behind restorative justice is to consider the juvenile's interes Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Effectiveness of Moral Recognition Therapy in Addressing Recidivism among Offenders This essay would explore how Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT) serves as a psychological intervention aimed at reducing recidivism among c Continue Reading...
New York State Department of Parole or the Department of Corrections is an agency of the state responsible for the supervision and management of criminals convicted of a crime, felony level or higher. The Department of Corrections was put in place t Continue Reading...
Ethics and Discretion in Probation "…Encourage relationships with colleagues of such character to promote mutual respect and cultivate a professional cooperation with each segment…" [and] "respect, serve and empathize with the victims of Continue Reading...
Youth Justice 1, HOW HAVE CRIMINOLOGISTS EXPLAIN YOUTHFULL CRIMINALITY? According to studies, youthful criminality is the result of many separate factors. Among these include the disproportionate amount of sensationalism surrounding crime (Okoronkw Continue Reading...
A major concern regarding crime today that exists within prisons as well as on the streets is the formation of gangs. "Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized, stealthy and deadly, they are reaching out from their cells to organi Continue Reading...
Criminal Procedure Law This document outlines the proposed criminal justice system. Its aim is to prevent and control crime and criminal acts through punitive measures and penalties to those who violate the set laws. The paper is a suggested crimina Continue Reading...
This gave the immediate need to contract the prison facilities. Literature review Extant literature has been dedicated to the topic of privatization of the rather publicly run correctional facilities in America. These literatures have been mixed a Continue Reading...
The later stages focuses on dealing with the problems related to the drug use withdrawal like the withdrawal syndromes, the tendency to relapse. The later stages also focus on restoring the self dignity and also impacting the participant with the p Continue Reading...
Japanese Correctional System as Compared to the American Corrections System The Japanese correctional system places a strong emphasis on rehabilitation and preparing the prisoner for being released once again into society. The Japanese correctional Continue Reading...
'" Two steps if taken, however, would almost halve our prison population. First, repeal state laws that now mandate the incarceration of drug offenders and develop instead many more public and private treatment centers to which nonviolent drug abuse Continue Reading...
Budget Proposal in California Criminal Justice AgencyA budget proposal is a formal document essentially detailed and research-supported for a given operating period. It provides the financial budget plan and displays information on the project expens Continue Reading...
Abstract Indeterminate sentencing laws allow judges to give convicted felons a window of time rather a specific sentence length. With indeterminate sentencing, the judge provides a minimum and a maximum but defers authority regarding when a prisoner Continue Reading...
Justice Systems What are the main factors that determine high or low incarceration rates? The last twenty years have witnessed a significant and historic shift with regards to the use of imprisonment within the United States. In 1980, less than ha Continue Reading...
Compare and Contrast the Current Dominant Approaches to Crime Prevention Introduction Given the diverse definitions of crime prevention, Schneider looks at it from the consequences approach. He defines it as a program or strategy that serves the purp Continue Reading...
Community corrections are an integral component of any law enforcement correctional program. Community corrections staff, develop, and administer contracts for community-based correctional programs and serve as the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)'s local lia Continue Reading...
Proactive Policing There is generally a concept that police respond only after a crime is committed. However, now police do have opportunities to be proactive. Today proactive policing has emerged as the key to a booming future in crime prevention a Continue Reading...
changes taking place within the area of juvenile justice are being implemented in sporadic and inconsistent ways. There seem to be two distinct directions within the realm of juvenile criminal justice. One view presents juvenile justice as necessita Continue Reading...
e. D (0), the cost of fighting crime / proportion of corrections i.e. C (P0) and the crimes / social costs / negative impacts on to offender i.e. BBFO. These different elements are important, because the combination of them is helping us to understan Continue Reading...
Boot Camp's Program Claim of a 0% Recidivism Rate Addressing a Boot Camp's Program's Claim of a 0% Recidivism Rate The Claim: A Boot Camp Program Run by a Local Sheriff's Department Claims a Recidivism Rate of 0% My assessment on the accuracy of Continue Reading...
Youth Behind Bars - Let's Rehabilitate Kids, Not Punish Them" published in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 27 of this year argues in his article that the California system for dealing with juvenile delinquents is a failure but that it must b Continue Reading...
