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    History of Corrections

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    History of corrections Young Arrington Correction System and Practices August 8‚ 2012 Comparison and contrast between Auburn and Pennsylvania correctional systems Comparison The Auburn correctional system began at the New York State Prison in 1819 and was referred to as a congregate system. The Auburn beliefs were crime prevention through silent confinement and fear of punishment. In the Auburn system inmates ate and worked in groups during the day and returned to isolation at

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    Why do good people do bad things? (750 words) In this essay I will talk about the torturing of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. I will also write about the Stanley Milgrim Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. All of these relate to one of the topics we have covered this term. There is an excellent example of uniforms influencing power in the Stanford Prison experiment which took place in1971‚ it was lead by Prof Zimbardo1 (see footnote) in which a group of students were selected to act as prison

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    /11 Do people work better if they are paid more? I have to say that most people will do more work if they are paid more money. That’s also one of the main reasons why people seek new and better paying jobs in the working World.Sure‚ there is a mental and a physical limit of the amount of work that a person is able to do within a certain amount of time. Yes‚ there are times during the year when those limits are exceeded for a short interval. Well‚ if you have a reasonable employer‚ you will work

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    People generally agree that humans should have equal rights. For many people‚ however‚ this seems to change on account of how they present themselves. People in the LGBT community are one of the smallest minority groups‚ a biet it is slowly growing‚ they are still discriminated against. Transgender is a term that means a person identifies with a gender that is different from what they were born as. This has been a center of hate and discrimination everywhere‚ including the workplace. Some believe

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    The America Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also known as ASPCA “ the first humane society formed in North America and‚ today‚ one of the largest humane societies in the world‚ was founded by Henry Bergh and incorporated in 1866. The mission of the ASPCA‚ as stated by Henry Bergh in 1866‚ is “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States” said Stephen Zawistowski on a he’s article about ASPCA This has been number one mission of this

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    Juvenile Corrections & Treatment Your name CJS 240 October 24‚ 2010 The Juvenile corrections system has various methods to support the underlying goal of rehabilitation and reform. This system affects the entire community in its successes and failures; members of the society should take time to understand what efforts are being made to reform these young offenders and what obstacles must be eliminated to make it more effective. The following paper will attempt to summarize community

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    Why Do People Keep Pets

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    People have said‚ “The only creature to love someone more than it loves itself‚ is a dog.” The love doesn’t stop there; cats‚ hamsters‚ rabbits‚ and many other animals have unconditional love towards you. From 1970 to 2010‚ the number of cats and dogs in households has risen from 67 million to an estimated 164 million. Of these statistics‚ there are 78.2 million dogs and 86.4 million cats owned nationwide (humansociety). Why do so many people keep pets? There are numerous reasons for why people choose

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    Why Do People Join Gangs

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    Why do people join gangs? Gangs‚ or most people define as a group of criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit‚ are still widely increasing in the United States today. Even though everyone can agree that any gang related activities and crimes are against the law‚ people still joins it regardless with various reasons: Desire for protection‚ to appear cool‚ and have a sense of family. People often join gangs to get a protection from others. Especially in ghetto‚ where most of

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    Why Do People Use Posters?

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    For my Extended Essay I chose to write about a topic that personally interests me which however still has a historical background. I therefor decided on writing about posters and how they have been used and how they influenced the local people‚ shown from different perspectives‚ in the former years and still nowadays as a form of propaganda focusing mainly on the German and Nazi background. Before going deeper into he topic of propaganda we ask our self what propaganda actually is. It is a form

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    about WWII is: Was the Japanese treatment of civilians & prisoners of war worse than “the Holocaust”? The Holocaust was the mass murder of the Jews during WWII taken out by Hitler and his Nazi army. Prisoners of war are‚ well‚ just that‚ prisoners of war. Japan took more prisoners of war than any other county and were merciless to the people they captured. I personally think that the Japanese treatment to the POW’s (Prisoners of War) was a lot worse to the treatment of the holocaust Jews. They did

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