institutions are for men and women. There are aftercare programs that help ease a person into the community instead of tossing them back into the streets. Looking further into these different aspects will help the understanding of the juvenile corrections and treatment facilities. There are a variety of community-based treatment centers and organizations within the United States. The most commonly used within most communities are probation‚ restitution‚ and group homes. Probation is used
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Roles of Corrections Officers CRJ303: Corrections January 12‚ 2015 The role of a correctional officers‚ also known as detention officers play a very vital role when it comes to their duties inside the penitentiary or in a detention home. The Department of Corrections is an agency of the United State government that have been around for many of centuries. The correctional officers and the prison administration are an essential piece to our Justice System. The correctional officers has the
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Probation Officer. A career as a Juvenile Probation Officer is well-respected‚ offers a good salary‚ and the opportunity to excel and advance. The probation of juveniles is staffed by dedicated individuals that believe that youths who have broken the law can change their deviant behaviors in favor of more socially acceptable activities (Mcfall Torbet‚ 1996). Applying dedication and education which they have received‚ the juvenile probation officer has the ability to give youth’s within their community
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that any child who watches television can recite the words: "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney" Yet the 1966 Supreme Court ruling in Miranda v. Arizona remains the subject of often heated debate‚ and has had a great impact on law enforcement in the U.S. On March 13‚ 1963‚ eight dollars in cash was stolen from a Phoenix‚ Arizona bank worker‚ Police suspected and arrested Ernesto Miranda for committing
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The unethical relationship between correction officers and inmates because a social issue because us on the outside don’t really know what goes in on the inside so when people that came out of jail serving their prison time come out and says what the correction officers did to them it’s not for society to turn our back on them because they are criminals but to look in to it to make sure this isn’t happening to individuals. staff sexual misconduct has very real consequences for a facility and its
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Reforming the Current U.S. Corrections System In the United States‚ the corrections system is a network of agencies that administer a jurisdiction’s prisons and community-based programs. It is responsible for implement the punishment for a convicted offender. This can range from being on probation to serving years in prison. The current system has evolved to meet the demands of society for the past centuries. While the current system does a semi-decent job‚ it can be changed in order to be more
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Stacey Huber Professor Mackey LAL 102: 02 11 May 2011 Child Support Enforcement: One Law Does Not Fit All Single parents are becoming the norm these days and the government has stepped in to assist these custodial parents to make things fair. It takes two people to make a child so it seems only fair that two people support the child financially‚ right? I am a single mother. My daughter’s father‚ Donnie‚ and I were never married and weren’t together at the time of her birth. He wasn’t around
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Criminal Justice Trends Corrections has been a part of the law enforcement for many years and as the years have passed‚ corrections has evolved in many ways. The past‚ present‚ and future trends in corrections has expanded in regards to different laws and technology. The writer will go into detail on the budgetary and managerial impact of the future trends that it will likely have‚ not only in corrections but in law enforcement and the courts. Furthermore‚ include the current research data in qualitative
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Corruption within Law Enforcement has been an ongoing issue for many years now and is a concern that only seems to grow. Many officers are perceived as authority figures that are corrupt and abuse their power‚ we turn on our television and witness an incident where an officer abused his/her power then just like that‚ they have made a bad name for all cops. Now‚ don’t get me wrong many officers abuse their powers in many ways simply because it’s easy to get away with but there are some officers that
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The first step in developing a culture at any institution‚ especially corrections‚ is putting together the right leadership team. There are three basic leadership styles: transactional‚ transformational‚ and laissez-faire. The transactional style is where someone leads with a system of rewards or punishment as they will reward when their expectations are met and punish when they are not (Sickels‚ 2015). There is no attention given to the employee’s personal development or goals (Sickels‚ 2015)
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