Three positions that interest me are the role of a Probation Officer‚ Juvenile Court Liaison‚ Rehabilitation Case Worker. Probation officers work with people who were convicted of crimes and sentenced to probation instead of incarceration. Probation and Parole Officer jobs require applicants to be U.S citizens‚ possess a valid driver’s license‚ and have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college. This degree must be in one of the following areas: Criminal justice‚ Social work‚ Psychology
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From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Necessary Extremes Of the supplementary readings provided‚ I found “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration” by Loïc Wacquant the most intriguing. This particular article is based on “rethinking the ‘race question’ in the US” and the disproportionate institutions set apart for African Americans in the United States. The volatile beginnings of African Americans presented obvious hardships for future advancement‚ but Wacquant argues that they still suffer from a form
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First is how mass incarceration affects the communities. One of the first issues that is talked about in the article is this issue of Invisible Inequality. “Inequality worsens both crimes of poverty motivated by need for goods for use and crime of wealth motivated by greed”‚ (Barak‚ et. al.‚ 2015). This issue has many aspects but the main aspect of this issue is that when data is being collected for different types of community well-being studies such as unemployment the people that are incarcerated
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Alexander‚ Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York : [Jackson‚ Tenn.]: New Press ; HV9950 .A437 2010 The Birth of Slavery in the US 1. In the 17th century labor for plantations was based on indentured servitude. 2. 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion 3. By 1770 "By the mid-1770s‚ the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. "Racial division was a consequence‚ not a precondition of slavery
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Rehabilitation of Criminals: A Waste of Time or Worth The Effort? By: Heather Rose Since 1960‚ the number of violent crimes committed per capita in the United States has increased by more than 450%. More than 24‚000 murders took place in America in 1991.. With each passing year‚ rapes‚ robberies‚ murder‚ and other forms of extreme violence has become a way of life for some individuals who fall short of society’s norms; however‚ it is only a small portion of criminals who commit the
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Alexander was very detailed in her speech about how drug warm mass incarceration and Jim Crow are connected. She explained that more than half of working-age African American men are having criminal records. People with criminal records lost the right to vote‚ the right to serve on juries‚ access to education and face discrimination in employment. African American men with criminal records are living a life that Alexander claimed to be different than African American people that lived in the Jim
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terrorism‚ which has sustained a movement of mass criminalization‚ in the name of public safety. However this safety has been a way to suppress those trying to challenge the status quo and reveal the true underlying which sparked the rise of mass incarceration.
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I. Essay Topic: Criminal Justice should focus more on rehabilitation II. Thesis statement: To focusing more on the rehabilitation in criminal Justice than retribution could minimize the crime. III. Body 1. 1st point: Topic sentence- Rehabilitation in a criminal justice takes into consideration in order to reduce a crime. I Shover has suggest” Rehabilitation or recovery) is a construct that negotiated through interaction
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beneficial to the animal. After reading an article on South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Centers (SPWRC) website‚ I was surprised to learn doing the exact opposite would be better for the birds’ ultimate well-being. There are many issues that can be easily over looked because they do not necessarily affect one’s life directly. The both educational and environmentally beneficial programs at the South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center can be a useful tool‚ to not only open one’s eyes
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It is estimated that 43‚000‚000 Americans have disabilities‚ with the number growing significantly as the population ages. The movement to assure accessibility to the Internet as a civil right gained momentum with the 1998 Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act. These amendments are called Section 508‚ The Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards. Section 508 requires most Federal Internet resources to become accessible according to Section 508 specifications. Additionally
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