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    Flores Mayra CRJS- 111 Introduction to Policing Key Graded Assignment - Policing Trends and Issues Westwood College of School of Justice Mr. Chandler June‚ 2012 Part- I Policing Research * History and roles of law enforcement in society. During the history of Law Enforcement the duty of police is to maintain order‚ dealing with lawbreakers. At the same time‚ citizens were responsible for protecting themselves and maintaining an orderly society. With the pass of the time‚ throughout the

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    Injustice in the Prison System In American society today‚ nonviolent offenders are prosecuted in much the same way violent offenders are. In California our justice system uses the three strikes law‚ which means habitual offenders; no matter the nature of the crime receive mandatory extended jail sentences after their second offense. While these crimes which they commit are wrong‚ the harm they inflict upon society is very low‚ hence the ratio of punishment to crime should be much lower. Using

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    LeeAnn Witman Professor Cockeram English 102-040 6 May 2014 America’s Prisons: The Modern Way to Expand the Lower Class With prison populations growing at an alarming rate and crime rates on the rise‚ one has to stop and wonder if there will soon be a prison decorating every town or city. America’s prisons have been called the “graduate schools for crime” and with the recidivism rate‚ one has to agree that this term was not coined flippantly. It stands to reason: Take a group of people‚

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    There is a large sum of groups that populate prisons‚ from offenders with AIDS to youthful offenders usually under the age of 25. The population of offenders that I will be discussing is the group of the mentally ill in prisons. Mentally ill offenders are individuals with mental disorders‚ according to NAMI.org (National Alliance on Mental Illness)‚ a mental illness is “...a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking‚ feeling‚ mood‚ ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just

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    Prisons Compare and Contrast Prisons systems have changed after the first penitentiary was opened known as the Eastern Penitentiary. The theory of penitentiary was that by keeping criminals locked in their cell with not outside influences so that they can reflect on their past as well as become more religious is a way that the person will change their lives for the better and in return this would reform the person so upon release they were God fearing people that could function in society. These

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    The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions.  The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed

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    10) Prisons are a waste of money. With reference to relevant literature / reports discuss why this might be so and give examples of alternatives that might be used more effectively. Introduction: Prisons are home to the individuals who have committed a crime‚ and been convicted of their crime. These correctional facilities are used as a form of punishment by the courts for these felons. ( Free Legal Dictionary‚ 2013). "There are 14 institutions in the Irish Prison System consisting

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    The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0309-0566.htm COMMENTARY Corporate social responsibility: a corporate marketing perspective Diogo Hildebrand and Sankar Sen Zicklin School of Business‚ Baruch College‚ City University of New York‚ New York‚ New York‚ USA‚ and Corporate social responsibility 1353 C.B. Bhattacharya European School of Management and Technology‚ Berlin‚ Germany Abstract Purpose – The main goal of this paper

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    Mass Incarceration In 1983 the nation’s largest private prison corporation the Corrections Corporation of America was founded. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) controls more than 47% of all private prison and jail beds nationwide and produces a 13% to 15% return annually on investment. This company is the nation’s largest owner and operator of privatized correctional and detention facilities and one of the largest prison operators in the United States‚ behind only the federal government

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    History and Purpose of Penitentiaries Crime has had an impact on society for years‚ and will continue to do so well into the future. The presence of criminals and criminal acts proved that there was and all ways will be a need for penitentiaries. Correctional facilities no matter if they are prisons‚ jails‚ or penitentiaries are all part of the criminal justice system. Their overall goal and objective is to house offenders with the hope to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society to

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