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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Sexual coercion in prison is a more polite way of saying prison rape or pressure to have sex and giving into the pressure. Prison sex is a topic not many‚ like to touch on. However it is estimated that thousands of men‚ mostly young‚ or incapable of defending themselves have been coerced into performing sexual acts in prison. Another less talked about topic‚ or less understood is the primal need for companionship. Homosexual activity happens in prisons through out the world and through out
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1. News Article Title: Modern trends and issues in the world beer industry (2 Points) Name of media presenting article: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (2 Points) URL to news article: http://www.tcs.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/White%20Papers/CPG-Whitepaper-Brewery-Industry-Transition-0313-1.pdf (2 Points)
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Racism‚ Prisons‚ and the Future of Black America I came upon an article bearing the above title after entering the word race’ into my web browser search bar. After skimming through the article‚ I became interested in the topic and decided it would be worthy for using in my Race in the Media Analysis. The topic mentioned is that of the staggering number of Blacks within American prisons. In the year the article was published (2000)‚ the number of incarcerated Blacks were slightly over half of
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Trends Cheating There is a study in South Korea which investigates the magnitude and predictors of academic cheating among South Korean nursing students. The study even concluded that an alarming level of cheating problem was found among South Korean nursing students‚ requiring immediate attention This only proves that cheating is not only a trend here in the Philippines but all over the world. This cheating issue in nursing education should be managed under collaborative efforts of nursing
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deserve to be in prison for 25 years? Perfect example was a man named Wallace. Wallace was such an incompetent thief that he was still sitting in the passenger seat of the car by the time police arrived. He went to court and got 25 years to life. In prison‚ Wallace immediately became a target
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the nursing practice begun‚ there have been many issues affecting this practice some of the issues are negative while others are positive. Current issues provide opportunities for debates about matters affecting nurses currently. The current issues help in providing forums to examine the contradicting views on the demands and difficulties that the nursing field is facing which affect the delivery of healthcare. The debating of current critical issues encourages independent thinking whereby it helps
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as a system of discipline or punishment dates back to medieval times. For hundreds of years‚ critics and punitive experts within our society have studied‚ researched‚ and made changes to the physical punishment methods and restored it with incarceration. The passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 gave a crime control perspective that increasing arrests and punishments for drug offenses to have a profound impact on correctional populations and minorities (D.L. MacKenzie). Today‚ the
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CJ130-01: Introductions to Corrections Professor: Candida Legursky Micqia Conley July 2‚2013 Inmates first experience usually occurs in a classification or reception center‚ where they are given a battery of psychological and intelligence tests and are evaluated on the basis of their background‚ offense history‚ personality‚ and treatment needs. Some states have instituted rigorous classification instruments designed to maximize the effectiveness of placements‚ thereby cutting down on the cost
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The Prison System- A “Market” for Profits Joseph Hallinan’s analysis‚ “Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation‚” helps to discern that the insatiable drive for profit is the prevailing reason for continued growth of the prison industry in the United States. Public values based on this drive have been supported by the avocation of a “free-market” model and capitalism in the prison system: “According to this ideology every individual pursues his or her own personal interests and the result
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