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    anti-social personality as they become more open-minded. Although most prisons provide GED‚ College Programs enhance GED results. Hughes et al. (2012) inmates attending college education one or more years reveal significant reduction results in recidivism (p. 149). Commonly‚ educational and correctional administrators develop a risk assessment before and after inmates are prison release.

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    Courts of healing justice are specialized courts that deal in specific types of offenders. The ones that will be covered here are juvenile courts‚ family courts‚ and drug courts. These courts keep these specific types of cases out of the general courts. Their goal is to try to heal the offender of what is causing them to offend instead of just locking them up. They are also referred to courts of second chance. These courts work with social services and law enforcement agencies to provide special

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    arrested and have them sit in jail for a long time. That would either teach them not to hit each other‚ or not be married to that individual anymore‚ because they are toxic. Studies show that arresting versus a warning has a better effect on the recidivism rate. At the very

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    terms 6 Part III Main Discussion Drug Addiction 45 Drug Problems in the Philippines 46 Drug Withdrawal 52 Drug Rehabilitation 53 Role of affect dysregulation in Addiction 57 Addiction recovery groups‚ Alcoholics Anonymous‚ and Drug Rehabilitation Drug Abuse Addiction 69 Chemical Dependency 71 Chemical Addiction 71 Factors influencing Drug abuse and Dependence 74 Genetic Factors 75 Drugs Effect and Mechanisms of Action 76

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    American courts have carefully expanded mandatory disclosure by the prosecutor‚ especially with respect to disclosures of exculpatory evidence and impeachment material. Exculpatory evidence is any evidence that might exonerate the defendant at trial by either tending to cast doubt on defendant’s guilt or by tending to mitigate the defendant’s culpability‚ thereby potentially reducing the defendant’s sentence (David W. Neubauer & Henry F. Fradella). In Brady v. Maryland‚ he U.S Supreme Court held that

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    Abstract: This study looks at the relation between recidivism and the labeling theory. The study examines what the ideas of the labeling theory are and how they relate to the modern justice system. Prison populations have skyrocketed since the beginning of the 1980s. This paper analyzes how this number has grown along with how labeling theory identifies how the community operates along with individuals. The research collected the effect the current society’s labels are on the first time offenders

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    Grisso‚ Vincent & Seagrave‚ 2005; Champion & Mays‚ 1991; Fellmeth‚ 2002). According to Grisso and his colleagues (2005)‚ the argument that in order to help young offenders that were placed under rehabilitation centers reconnect to community and avoid recidivism is to provide them education and employment opportunities upon release. It is in this area where mentoring programs to achieve this goal are gaining popularity‚ the authors said (p.20). The purpose of this paper is to survey the literature that

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    1ST SLIDE: Identity theft starts with the misuse of a person’s personally identifying information‚ such as name and Social Security number‚ credit card numbers or other financial account information. For identity thieves‚ this information is as good as gold.  2ND SLIDE: What do thieves do with a stolen identity? Once they have your personal information‚ identity thieves use it in a variety of ways. Credit card fraud: They may open new credit card accounts in their victim’s name. When they

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    Analyze the effects of recidivism on community corrections. Effects on the immediate families There have been a lot of effects on the immediate families. This occurs when the parent’s i.e. fathers and/or mothers are arrested due to different criminal offences‚ their immediate families become traumatized by the community and the media based on a rush to judgment. The children of these parents are ridiculed by other children who attend the same school. These children undergo many antagonizing reactions

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    Norway’s recidivism rate was measured to be 20% over a two-year period in 2005 (Fazel) and continues to keep their rates under 30% today (Kofman). Per 100‚000‚000 people‚ only 72 people are incarcerated per year in Norway. In comparison‚ The United States was measured to arrest 710 people per 100‚000 people in 2013(The Hamilton Project) and to have a 60% recidivism rate (Kofman). America is in the lead in incarceration and recidivism as shown in Figure 1 (Appendix A).

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