the end of 2001‚ Webb‚ 2003 explains that America had ran into a problem with their incarceration numbers. There were 2.1 million people in prison. The National center for policy analysis stated that 160‚000 of the 630‚000 inmates that were released were still considered violent. (p.71). Many researchers have suggested different forms of treatment they believe is needed to decrease the violence and incarceration number of inmates. Donald Baer highlighted the need to plan for generalization influence
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The use of incarceration as a system of discipline or punishment dates back to medieval times. For hundreds of years‚ critics and punitive experts within our society have studied‚ researched‚ and made changes to the physical punishment methods and restored it with incarceration. The passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 gave a crime control perspective that increasing arrests and punishments for drug offenses to have a profound impact on correctional populations and minorities (D.L
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the opposite direction regarding the incarceration of juveniles. It confines juveniles at a rate 42 percent higher than the nation‚ and according to federal data‚ has had the largest jump in youth incarceration since 2001. The state places offenders as young as 10 in facilities such as detention centers and group homes.” (Williamson Daily News Juvenile Center No longer safe‚ July 27‚ 2015) West Virginia has many contributing factors to the high youth incarceration rate. West Virginia has the highest
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African American culture in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of Americans of African descent to the culture of the United States‚ either as part of or distinct from American culture. The distinct identity of African American culture is rooted in the historical experience of the African American people. The culture is both distinct and enormously influential to American culture as a whole. African-American culture is rooted in Africa. It is a blend of chiefly sub-Saharan African
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One of the many social problems here in America are the high rate of African Americans placed in the prison system. According to NAACP‚ from 1980 to 2008‚ the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled-from roughly 500‚000 to 2.3 million and out of the 2.3 million incarcerated 1 million are African Americans. African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. 1 out of 3 African American males are expected to go to prison in their lifetime compared to the 1 out of
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without African Americans. African Americans contributed a lot to America and is a main factor of all that is going on in America to this day. Without black people America would not be. Like it or not African Americans helped with building this famous nation. W.E.B. Dubois asked‚ “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” Put the question in our head of what would America be without its black people? How will our world change? Without the bravery and the outgoing African Americans we
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cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.” African American superstar‚ Nick Cannon has beat the odds of being an African American men and getting married. This vow is rarely said by most of the African American males population. Over the last twenty-five years‚ marriage rates among African American males have declined dramatically. By 1994‚ the percentage of never-married men increased to 42.4 percent and only 46 percent of African American men were married (Statistical Abstract of the United
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African Americans can trace their religious roots back to African religions‚ Judaism‚ Islam and Christianity. Christianity for the majority of African Americans became the dominated religion because of evangelism by Europeans. Instead of keeping the enslaved Africans submissive and in line Christianity enriched and strengthened the lives of African Americans to seek their freedom. Several of the insurrection and antislavery movements were born in the African American church. From its inception the
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perfect example of the effect that the American Revolution had on African American people. The American Revolution was the “Great Awakening” for African Americans‚ because it was the spark to the coming Civil War. In Lecture 10 it was said that the slaves felt “inspired to fight”‚ and who could blame them? Dunmore’s Proclamation was not only a call for slaves to join the fight‚ but it was hope for freedom. African Americans used the ideology of the American Revolution to their advantage‚ and used
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AP United States History African American Culture from the Early to Mid-1800’s Throughout American history‚ African Americans fought to establish their own culture. Even though they were silenced by white laws and stereotypes‚ African Americans created their own distinct culture‚ to a certain extent from 1800 to 1860. By mixing their African American traditions and Christian ideas‚ they formed a religion‚ their own version of Christianity. African American rebellions‚ though small and infrequent
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