Incarceron by Catherine Fisher tells the story of Finn‚ a prisoner in the inescapable prison of Incarceron. Determined to be free of the dank‚ dark‚ prison cells‚ he meets Claudia‚ the daughter of the warden of Incarceron‚ who lives in The Realm‚ a futuristic world where people are forced to act as if they lived in the 18th century. They work together‚ along with some help from his friends‚ to uncover the secrets of Incarceron‚ and foil the vile Queen Sia’s plans of domination. Finn: dauntless
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threat to the safety of prison‚ of correctional staff‚ and of other inmates. Nevertheless‚ the issue of discipline in prison is important from an economic perspective‚ because an estimated average cost per infraction at a medium security prison is $970 (Jiang & Fisher-Giorlando‚ 2002). For these reasons‚ Jiang & Fisher- Giorlando conducted a research to help explain violent incidents‚ incidents against correctional staff and incidents against other inmates in prison. Identifying the risk factors
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Supermax Prisons and Their Adverse Effects Introduction Due to increasing crime rates and the extensive belief that rehabilitative programs for inmates do not work‚ a new and harsher method for prisons is being utilized. Instead of scattering the worst criminals‚ they are being consolidated into Supermax prisons. Supermax prisons are state of the art penitentiaries meant to hold only the worst of the worst criminals and inmates that cannot be trusted in regular prisons. There are strict regulations
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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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different theories on how crime can be explained. Each of these theories has a unique perspective on how crime can be explained in individuals‚ and what causes those individuals to commit a crime‚ whether it is genetics‚ choice‚ or inequality in power‚ and the theories that adopt these explanations are positivist‚ classicism and critical perspectives‚ respectively. The key principles of the theory of classicism are based upon the concept of the human capacity to reason‚ and the theory adopts a specific
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The Attica Prison Riot of 1971 alarmed and outraged society. The public outrage brought about long overdue prison reforms including changes to public policy and administration. The riot began on September 9‚ 1971 and ended on September 13‚ 1971 when state police stormed the prison and opened fire. The re-taking of the prison left ten employees and twenty-nine inmates dead. During the riot itself one employee and three inmates were killed. The exact causes or incidents that led to the uprising are
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INTRODUTION: The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. While some socio-legal scholars see the sociology of law as "necessarily" belonging to the discipline of sociology‚ others see it as a field of research caught up in the disciplinary tensions and competitions between the two established disciplines of law and sociology. Yet‚ others regard it neither as a sub-discipline of sociology nor
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key themes and issues /20 Overall comments: To improve your grade I suggest you… Does Prison Work? The aim of this essay is to analyse and discuss the prison system in England and Wales to determine whether or not the current prison system works. The work of Joyce (2006) suggests that there are five objectives that are analysed when looking to see if prisons work‚ these are punishment‚ reform‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence and denunciation. However due to
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The major approaches that criminologists use to explain crime are positivist criminology; classical perspective; sociological criminology and environmental criminology. Positive Criminology‚ an approach which attempts to explain criminal actions not as an exercise of free will or of one ’s choosing‚ but rather as a consequence of multiple different internal and external. (http://psychologydictionary.org/positivist-criminology/) Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909)‚ an Italian criminologist views that
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The contingency approach to management emerged from the real life experience of managers who found that no single approach worked consistently in every situation. The basic idea of this approach is that number management technique or theory is appropriate in all situations. The main determinants of a contingency are related to the external and internal environment of an organisation. The process‚ quantitative‚ behavioural‚ and systems approaches to management did not integrate the environment. The
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