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    “Erik Erikson proposed a psychoanalytic theory of psychosocial development comprising eight stages‚ from infancy to adulthood. During each stage‚ the person experiences a psychosocial crisis‚ which could have a positive or negative outcome for personality development” (McLeod‚ 2013). Jason is six or seven years old still have two more stages to pass through; those stages are identity versus role confusion and intimacy versus isolation (McLeod‚ 2013). Looking ahead‚ I believe if Jason’s home environment

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    Contraband In Prisons

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    The United States Prison System has been around for hundreds of years. They house some of the United States’ worst people. This would include individuals convicted of crimes such as murder to the lowest crime of petit theft. Since the attacks on September 11‚ 2001‚ the U.S. has put the spotlight on terrorism worldwide. Most people in society do not realize that the U.S. Prison System could be one of the biggest breeding grounds for terrorism and terrorism recruiting. In addition to that‚ the introduction

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    Overpopulation In Prison

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    and who will end up back in prison. Negative thoughts on such a topic are natural since it is true in the United States; most individuals in prison will reoffend and find themselves back in prison. With prisons in the United States becoming over populated‚ should there be different efforts adopted by more facilities to help individuals become functioning members of society? Daniel Reisel was sent to study the brains of clinically diagnosed psychopaths in an England prison. Although‚ he was studying

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    Associate Level Material Appendix E Physical Security Policy Student Name: Vivian Hillard University of Phoenix IT/244 Intro to IT Security Instructor’s Name: Bryan Berg Date: 5/6/12 Physical Security Policy Due in Week Five: Outline the Physical Security Policy. Merkow and Breithaupt (2006) state‚ “an often overlooked connection between physical systems (computer hardware) and logical systems (the software that runs on it) is that‚ in order to protect

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    Prison Budgets

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    The recession and budget challenges that are currently happening have played a large role in the incarceration rates in that the prison administration and governments that help to fund them are trying to find different ways to reduce the amount of money it costs them to hold an inmate in a correctional facility‚ but still deal with the high amount of incarcerated individuals that have longer sentences with the current stance that is being taken on crime by politicians. According to Seiter (2011)

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    Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time‚ i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns‚ or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time. So the term urbanization can represent the level of urban development relative to overall population‚ or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon‚ but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale‚ whereby predominantly

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    Jails & Prisons

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    workhouses and the inmates were typically held at the jail. Jails continued to house pretrial inmates and by the end of the nineteenth century‚ almost every United States city had constructed and operated a jail for this purpose. The state and federal prison systems are alike in the concept that they both keep those who are accused and found guilty incarcerated and away from the

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    Adult Prisons

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    Is sending kids to adult prisons and trying them as adults the best solution for our crime problem or would rehabilitating juveniles be a better option? Most people agree that kids who commit violent crimes need to be punished. However‚ do they really learn anything from being punished as an adult? In today’s society‚ punishment and rehabilitation has always been a big problem within our views in the Juvenile Justice System. Rehabilitation beats punishment! Adolescents who are tried and convicted

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    the highest incarceration rates in the world with currently 2.2 million people in US prison and jails – a 500% increase over the last forty years. According to The Sentencing Policy‚ changes in sentencing and law policy‚ not changes in crime rates‚ explain most of this increase. This has resulted in overcrowding in prisons and has become a financial burden on states because they have to adjust to the growing prison system‚ even though it has been found that high incarceration is not an effective way

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    Prison Models

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    Prison Models There are three models of prisons that have been prominent in American since the early 1940’s: custodial‚ rehabilitative‚ and reintegration. Each model is designed differently based on its overriding goal‚ and this affects the physical design‚ policies‚ and programs that are implemented within each of the models. Custodial Model Archaic Purpose: Control‚ focus is on maintaining security and order. Goal: Punishment‚ this is the best way to provide deterrence against

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