Select one of the following issues: • Racial profiling • Prison overcrowding • The war on drugs • Increased use of technology • Cultural diversity Write a 1‚050- to 1‚705-word paper addressing how your selected issue affects the criminal justice system as a whole. • Describe some of the change(s) the criminal justice system as a whole has made in response to the issue you selected. • Include your opinion on whether the changes are sufficient. Should more changes be made‚ and if so‚ what changes?
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Prison Overcrowding in California Jeffrey Shaw CJA/564 Josette Ford May 6‚ 2013 The California prisons have been crowded for decades. This cannot continue to go on. One of the reasons that the prisons are overcrowded is because of the types and lengths of sentences. Other reasons why the prisons are overcrowded is because many of the prisoners are there on non-violent crimes. Also many of the sentences are for smaller crimes. The one recent event that is dealing with this problem is release
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Emilia Ramirez AP Language & Comp Period 3 Mrs. Campbell 21 September 2012 Why Prisons Don’t Work: Rhetorical Précis In the Times article Why Prisons Don’t Work‚ Wilbert Rideau‚ a convicted murderer‚ claims that a vast number of criminals are forced to rot in prison so that “politicians can sell the illusion that permanently exiling people to prison will make society safe” (1). According to Rideau‚ the values prison holds are limited and it does not work because it is solely “a mop-up
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Introduction Twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population‚ 2.5 million people‚ are held in American penal institutions. (ACLU‚ 2008). Sixty percent of those incarcerated are racial and ethnic minorities. These figures mean that 2.3% of all African Americans are incarcerated. The percentage of whites admitted to prison is 0.4% of whites and Hispanics‚ 0.7%. (Associated Press‚ 2007; Bonczar‚ 2003; Mauer & King‚ 2007; ACLU‚ 2008; Bridges & Sheen‚ 1998;). One of the primary contributors
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Question 1 The reintegration of criminals and offenders into the society and their interventions are meant to bring down the rates of crime and recidivism. Control and care can be achieved in reintegration through psychological and social support. This method achieves control and care in its execution facilitating a smooth return into the community. It achieves control in which a qualified practitioner‚ community worker or probation officer is the one in charge and steers the process‚ guiding the
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Frontline: New Asylums addresses the lack of effective policies to facilitate treatment and rehabilitation for the mentally ill within the prison system. The social injustice theoretical perspective addresses the need for social benefits‚ resources and protection of the mentally ill within the criminal justice system. The perspective provides equal access of resources to all people and is based on human need rather than political or social power. The elimination of state mental hospitals was not
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The criminal investigation process (‘the process’) is a complex and necessary aspect of the legal system that aims to gather and investigate evidence lawfully‚ justly and in accordance with the rights of victims‚ suspects and society. The responsibility for enforcing criminal laws and ensuring they are adhered to lies with the police. In the criminal investigation process‚ the role of police is to investigate crimes through gathering evidence‚ interrogating and detaining suspects‚ searching and seizing
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First what is the Correctional System? It is a set of agencies that control crime and impose penalties on those that might not obey the law or violate them. What is the function of the correctional system? That is a very good question. The United States imprisons more people than any other country. Why is that‚ do American break the law more? To understand the true function of the correctional system you most know what it is not. One many say the system doesn’t work anymore do to the overcrowding
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Power is automatized through the panopticon. Inmates in the panopticon are under the impression that they are either constantly being watched or that they could be watched at any time and therefore are constantly under the gaze of the tower. The constant figure of surveillance through the central tower forces the inmate to observe his own actions as though he were being watched. This self-surveillance where the inmate “becomes a principle of their own subjection” (Foucault‚ 1977:203) means that the
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Mental Health in Brevard County from the Conflict Perspective My Social Issue: My social issue addresses the availability and accessibility of mental healthcare in Brevard County‚ Florida. Though it cannot be exactly pinpointed when this became an issue it has been known for many years the lack of resources available to those plagued with mental illness. According to the Professional Research Consultants‚ Inc.‚ mental illness is one of the primary causes of disability (Professional Research Consultants
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