Offenders with Special Needs CJA 234 June 3‚ 2013 Mitchell Jessip Offenders with Special Needs When people think of the offender population all they may picture is a healthy person in his or her 20’s or 30’s. People never think about the fact prisons house juvenile offenders‚ drug addicts‚ mentally ill‚ aging offenders‚ violent and sex offenders. The reality is that correctional staff deal with these issues on a daily basis. Special offenders are those offenders whose circumstances
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ethical values. They then organize their plan by collecting information to show employees which direction they need to move toward. The company then leads its employees by giving them the code of conduct. The code of conduct is not only a piece of paper‚ but it is PepsiCo. way to motivate its employees to be the best they can while working for the company. The company controls the goal by monitoring what employees are doing and what the company does to make sure they are following their ethical values
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Parole and Truth In Sentencing Brandon Hawkins CJS/200 March 01‚ 2015 Parole is a concept of reintegrating a convicted criminal back into society. It is different from probation‚ as probation is a tool used as a form of punishment prior to incarceration‚ and parole is used for those who are getting or have already been released. The concept gained popularity in the 19th century to provide incentive for people to behave well. There are two major types of parole
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Case Attrition CJS/220 March 28‚ 2012 The exercising of discretion by all system actors‚ public and private‚ and from the nature of the criminal process itself is a result of case attrition. Basically‚ case attrition is when an arrest does not end in a trial conviction‚ which happens quite often in the court justice system. This is not new experience‚ nor one limited to the United States; several other Western countries and in the early parts of the twentieth century
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The Effects of Family Structure and Values on Juvenile Delinquency Christina M. Bracey 201240 Fall 2012 CJUS 230-B02 LUO Professor DeBoer Liberty University Online October 12‚ 2012 Abstract The changes in family values and structure in the United States has helped contribute to juvenile delinquency today. Society needs to recognize problems within the home before trying to find solutions to problems for todays at risk youth in America. Major structural changes inside of the home could
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been great debate about whether rehabilitation reduces the rate of recidivism in criminal offenders. There has been great controversy over whether anything works to reduce recidivism and great hope that rehabilitation would offer a reduction in those rates. In this paper I will introduce information and views on the reality of whether rehabilitation does indeed reduce recidivism. Proposed is a quasi-experiment‚ using a group of offenders that received rehabilitation services and an ex post facto
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CJS 200 University of Phoenix (AXIA) Juvenile Crime Paper The amount of crime that is committed by juveniles in our country is astonishing. This crime is on the rise in many cities across our nation because we see news reports often concerning juveniles. The reasons behind this crime may be sociocultural or even biological. As a nation‚ we need to enforce ways to keep our youth from turning to a life filled with crime and ultimately‚ a life inside the correctional system. There are programs
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same sex‚ same clothing‚ and random selection of people Media Info can be released if they are being charged as an adult Purpose for juvenile transfer serious and violent juveniles chronic offenders cannot and do not benefit from rehabilitation factors influencing transfer seriousness of offense prior record youths responsiveness to treatment community protection amount and quality of evidence maturity of the juvenile victim
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Development of Corrections Justin Miltenberger CJS/230 9/16/2012 Frederick Waltz 1. What reforms did Elizabeth Fry lobby for the early 1800s? How have women’s prisons changed? Fry had formed the ladies society that would reformate the female prisoners. To this day female prisons are a lot like the male prisons now they have increased security‚ more training‚ and special housing to deal with the ones who are violent. 2. What are the three basic arguments established in the 1800s
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How is the accountability of each position balanced with the vulnerability to political exposure? Both positions are vulnerable for political exposure because of today’s media. Both positions are at the top of the chain of command and are accountable for their department or local suburb. The elected Sheriff is put in office by we the people‚ rather than being promoted within the department. Unlike police chief Sheriffs run for office‚ and do a lot of campaigning and politics. “Sheriffs are elected
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