UNIT 9 Final Essay Malcolm Johnson Kaplan University CM103-05 Professor Clay 9/1/2011 There are two primary goals of the United States corrections system. One of those goals is to punish offenders. The most common form of punishment is incarceration. There is also probation‚ house arrest‚ home electronic monitoring‚ and other less severe forms of punishment according to the crime committed. The second goal of corrections is to rehabilitate offenders. Some forms of rehabilitation can include
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Honoka’a was the home of many diverse plantation workers beginning in the 1800’s‚ however‚ while there are no longer plantations around‚ the town still exists but the culture and community has drastically changed. Method Participants The participants chosen for this community assessment were the members of Honoka’a community as a whole. The assessment was based off a geographical location encompassing the 2‚258 occupants of all ages (suburbanstats.org). Assessments and Measures When assessing the
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Running head: ISSUES IN COMMUNITY COUNSELING Issues in Community Crisis Counseling Oluwakemi Amola North Carolina Central University Abstract Crisis counseling is a time-limited program designed to assist persons affected by trauma‚ return to their pre-trauma level of functioning. Crisis counselors utilize several techniques to perform these services. This paper offers a clearer understanding of the crisis counseling field and the counselors who conduct it. In the past twenty years
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infectious diseases prevalent nowadays and affects all ages. It is an acute or chronic infection of one or both lungs caused by microorganisms‚ such as viruses‚ bacteria or chemical irritants. (Schmitt‚ 2011) It has different types‚ and one of them is Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). CAP is a disease in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs. It occurs because the areas of the lung which absorbs oxygen (alveoli) from the atmosphere become filled with
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Community Oriented Policing Community oriented policing is a policing strategy based on the notion that community interaction and support can help control crime and reduce fear‚ with community members helping to identify suspects‚ detain vandals and bring problems to the attention of police. It is a philosophy that combines traditional aspects of law enforcement with prevention measures‚ problem-solving‚ community engagement‚ and community partnerships (Ref. 1). Background of Community Oriented
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Investigating a Journalistic Discourse Community When you walk into a newsroom of journalists‚ you will see people reading‚ discussing‚ and writing the news. Journalists from all around the world‚ mostly the United States‚ join in Long Beach‚ California‚ where they collaborate to gather and publish information in the Gazette Newspapers‚ forming a professional discourse community. A discourse community is a group of individuals unified by common interests or goals and who have methods for communicating
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Similar to other indigenous communities of the world‚ Canadian indigenous communities have a long history of sharing their resources among the community members (Gray et al.‚ 2003; Anderson and Giberson‚ 2004). In the absence of proper financial institution they lived by the "barter economy‚" "a system of exchange where goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange‚ such as money" (Sullivan‚ 2003; p. 243). They did not have any individual
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Is Community Education a myth? Over the course of this project I intend to answer the question‚ is Community Education a myth? To do this I will use my own experience of Community Education in a range of settings along with some in depth research to critically examine the question. I will start by defining the key terms in the question such a ‘myth’‚ ‘community’ and ‘education’ to ensure my purpose is clear. Following this‚ I will look at the origins of Community Education as a professional practice
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the local community in your article? After reading this article I found the community to be affected drastically. Crime rates increased and people were angry so something had to be done. By deinstitutionalizing‚ we are not allowing the people who need the help to get it. In this case‚ a mentally ill patient was out unsupervised and set fire to downtown building. This fire resulting in two women killed and many angry residences in the community. Drastic changes needed to be made. Community viewpoint
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departments. Using different styles of policing techniques‚ mainly community based policing‚ has proved to be the best way to improve the image of law enforcement. Community based policing can best be defined as‚ "a collaborative effort between the police and the community that identifies problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community in the search for solutions to these problems" (Willard Oliver). Community based policing is the idea that the role of the police is not
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