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    Incarceration Trends in America DeVry University Abstract African Americans make up a curiously large portion of the incarcerated individuals in the United States. They are being incarcerated at a faster rate than those of other backgrounds such as Whites and Hispanics. Even though they make up a smaller part of the United States’ population‚ African Americans as well as Hispanics‚ comprise more than half of all prisoners in America. This is clearly a disproportionate

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    legal system is clearly flawed as alternative systems are superior‚ the current system adversely affects juveniles and their chance at rehabilitation‚ and recent findings on juvenile brain

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    Mass Incarceration A current topic that is currently facing our national government is mass incarceration‚ also known as mass imprisonment or the prison boom. What is important about this topic is that if we don’t figure out how to fix this problem‚ the population of those in prison will continue to rise. Those imprisoned are mainly made up of minorities‚ specifically African American men who live in poverty‚ non-wealthy and disadvantaged neighborhoods; the ghetto. Although the numbers of imprisonment

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    The incarceration rates of Norway‚ Australia‚ and Singapore can are much lower compared to the United States. In Norway the murder rate is less than half of that in Australia and robbery rate is significantly lower as well. The rates of all of the three first world countries i researched were surprising to me. I think they are surprising to me because Singapore have a very very low crime rate‚ and i would believe that is because they have very strict rules there compared to other places such as Australia

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    governments have placed tougher sanctions and punishments on criminals since the late 1970s as the number has suggested‚ but is it effective? Instead of a place for rehabilitation‚ prison is a breeding ground for criminal enterprises. Ineffective inmate treatment and education such as sex offender treatment and drug abuse rehabilitation programs further

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    ELDORET JUVENILE REMAND HOME “Mankind Owes the Child the Best it has to Offer” 1959 – 2nd Declaration of the Rights of the Child Location: The Eldoret Children’s Remand home is located on the eastern side of Eldoret town‚ on the Kaptagat Road‚ about 6 km from town near Limo Hospital in the vicinity of Kapsoya Estate. It falls under the Ministry of Gender‚ Youth Sports and Recreation‚ sits on a 5 acre land It was constructed in 1954 during the 2nd World War by the colonialists to cater

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    From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children‚ Families‚ and Communities Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration Creasie Finney Hairston‚ PhD Jane Addams College of Social Work University of Illinois at Chicago December 2001 [ Project Home Page | List of Conference Papers ] Contents * The Importance of Family Matters * Family Definitions * Financial Difficulties * Parent-child Relationships and Children’s Care

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    African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans

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    Concerning rehabilitation there are many things that come to mind. This paper will discuss what that term means. We will also examine the origin of rehabilitation and the different options that they get for parole. When we think about prisoner rehabilitation it is seen as a form of treatment. Simply because when a person goes through rehab‚ according to the definition‚ it is a form of treatment used to store a person back to good life. So when prisoners go through rehabilitation they are taught

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    Punishment v. Rehabilitation Introduction to Criminal Justice Kaplan University Within this paper we will be going over the purpose between punishment and rehabilitation. In punishment and rehabilitation we will break down some of the history of both. With each historical fact there are people that keep track of the statistics to see if they work‚ so will be going over some of the statistics of crime after each (whether it on the rise or whether it declined). We will also be answering questions

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