Prisons and Jails Final Essay Teketta Fleming Kaplan University CJ101-04 Professor McCauley 12-14-2010 How Does Our Correctional System Punish Offenders? The government has imposed punishment as a means to control crime. There are four key justifications for punishing criminals: retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ and rehabilitation (Seiter‚ R.P.‚ 2005). These four justifications serve as the goals of the United States correctional system. The other side of retribution can be simply
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Contexts http://ctx.sagepub.com/ Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality Bruce Western and Becky Pettit Contexts 2002 1: 37 DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2002.1.3.37 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ctx.sagepub.com/content/1/3/37 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: American Sociological Association Additional services and information for Contexts can be found at: Email Alerts: http://ctx.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://ctx.sagepub
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Prison Rape is no secret in today’s society. The American media has portrayed prison rape as a joke (Don’t drop the soap) in countless films‚ television shows‚ and in music‚ but have not realized the extent of how dangerous this crime is. Some cops even use this method as a means to get a confession from a suspect. A major obstacle in solving Prison rape is the notorious under-reporting of the crime. Only 16 percent of prison rape victims report their victimization. Reasons for under reporting
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African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans
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Attaining a higher education as an African American youth is significant because it is one of the most important achievements in today’s society that helps ensure a quality way of life. While gaining an education is still a financial challenge for most African Americans‚ there are still more opportunities than ever before for young people to acquire a post-secondary education. The more education a person has‚ the better one’s chances are at being successful. An education helps one have a better outlook
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Our American judiciary branch of the federal government has contributed and molded our American beliefs in this great nation. This branch of government is respected because of the code of conduct that the judges‚ no matter how conservative or liberal. The language of the court as well as the uniform of the cloaks that judges wear has most probably contributed towards this widespread respect. Throughout the history of the United States‚ I noticed a pattern of “cause and effect” that our judiciary
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Tony Lee Merriwether CJA/394 May 22‚ 2014 Ken Jones Corrections Trend Evaluation This paper is the writer’s evaluation based on research of past‚ present‚ and future correction trends in regard to the development and implementation of institutional and community based corrections. There is an urgent need to revamp the antiquated practice of the crime control methodology. The get tough on crime approach requires harsh sentencing laws that subject non-violent
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Shannon Rose English 112 The Connection Between Corporal Punishment in the Public School System and Our Nation’s Crime Rates. All states will have crime but not all states allow corporal punishment in the public school system‚ currently twenty states have not prohibited the use of corporal punishment in the United States. Corporal Punishment has many definitions one is defined as physical punishment to the body; with children it is generally a spanking with a paddle on the buttocks‚ another
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company boss to whom he was leased. The prison system of the 1800’s and the early 1900’s was based on cruel and inhumane treatment. Punishment was very tragic. The prisoners were treated as animal and consider less of inhuman because of their lawlessness. They were made to right the wrongs that they have committed either trough physical pain‚ endure mutilation‚ torture‚ mulcted in fines‚ deprive of liberty‚ adjudges as slave or even put to death. The American prison as we know began in New York in the
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No one wants to go to prison for a small crime‚ but then again maybe they do. People make mistakes everyday weather the offense is small or large. The system does and does not always work because sometimes the good people who are accused can end up in the worse situation. In the article there are facts stated about how “the bill of right is a terrible document” because during that time the justice system is still being written at the time. Prison is tough for the inmates and guards because they are
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