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    Ex convict

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    against homelessness. The existence of homeless people in our society is still evident today. You will witness homeless people struggling to survive everywhere‚ and anywhere you look around. My section for this presentation was to do a research on ex- convicts that are homeless. Basically my slides will consist of the following; first I will show facts on how ex -convicts are treated‚ statistics and quotes. For instance‚ some ex-convicts cannot return home because offenders convicted of drug crimes

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    Affirmative 1 Ex-convicts should be given chances to build their life and they should be free from other’s prejudice. -perceived discrimination is very unfair. -chances should be given to let them forget their past and build a new life -they had learnt their lesson while serving their time in the prison 2 Due to isolation from society‚ it might result in ex-convicts in committing crimes as they are rejected by the society -it seems like their discrimination causes them to feel insecure

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    debt to society‚ there is a mark on your record that never comes off. Michelle Alexander wrote‚ “Once arrested‚ a person will rarely ever gain freedom from the system”.(92) Depending on the state an ex-convict lives in‚ it varies as to what freedoms and rights will be restored. Many states won’t allow convicted felons to vote‚ some states won’t allow the ownership of a firearm‚ even though the many of the offence were not violent. Also‚ according to Alexander book‚ other rights denied to ex-convicts

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    Should ex-convicts be allowed to vote? According to the Constitutional Law‚ at the age of eighteen you are legally given a right to voice your opinion in voting. What happens when the law is broken for something you have done illegally‚ should your rights be taken away? How can a crime be so bad to where rights are taken? I believe all rights should be restored once the person whom committed the crime have paid their debt to society by doing the time because No Crime should take away their right

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    Secondary 4 Social Studies Social Documentary Essay Should Singapore give ex-convicts a second chance in terms of job employment? I agree to a large extent to the statement that‚ in the Context of Singapore‚ ex-convicts should be given a second chance in terms of employment. Firstly‚ when ex-convicts are not given an equal chance in employment‚ they will fall back into the viscous cycle of crime and imprisonment. In many cases of crimes‚ such as theft and drug abuse‚ are caused as a result of

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    Convict Crimonology

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    Reflection Paper 1: Analysis of Convict Criminology This reflection paper will redress topics discussed in Jeffrey Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards’ book: Convict Criminology. First the paper will analyze the main objectives in convict criminology. Next the paper will examine the importance of convict criminology. Last‚ I will refute why I believe convict criminology is a waste of time and tax payer dollars‚ and why I believe the government should work more to support studies in victimology

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    Convict in Australia

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    to 19th century‚ It had a large group of convicts were transported to Australia. Convicts are the people who found guilty of crime. All the convicts were transported Australia by ship and fleets. After the first fleet arrived to Australia‚ there were a lot of fleets arrived to Australia as well. Consequently‚ The Australia’s government were kept for each convict and up till the mid-1800s they recorded names‚ date and place of trial and sentence. The convicts were transported to all over Australia such

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    Some historians refer to convict slavery. Do you think that this is an accurate description of the convicts transported to Australia? Historians refer to convict slavery‚ which is the act of having people who are serving a prison sentence working as slaves. In this context‚ it means that historians referred to convicts from England coming to Australia to work as slaves. People would say that this is an accurate description of the convicts transported to Australia because they were treated like

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    diary of a convict

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    Diary of a convict Diary of Rick Mason May the 5. 1822 After mouths of sailing on the never ending ocean‚ we could finally on this calm sunny morning see a coastline on the horizon “Australia”. Today is a day me and the rest of the prisoners aboard Providence II Have been looking forward to. Hope the guards aren’t serious about the torture and the one month life expectancy. May the 7. 1822 It’s only been a couple of days since we docked on Macquarie Harbour prison‚ where we where introduced

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    Imprisonment of Convicts Transportation • The first significant innovation in eighteenth-century penal practice was the major expansion of the use of transportation. Though it was believed that this punishment may lead to the reformation of the offender‚ the main motivations behind transportation were a belief in it deterrent effect‚ and a desire to simply remove criminals from society • Transportation was put to a halt in 1776 by the outbreak of war with America. Though convicts continued to be

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