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    Prison Environment

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    PRISON ENVIRONMENT Prison Environment By: James Thomas University of Phoenix Prison Environment Prison environment is cramped and confined and a dangerous environment. There are many inmate customs‚ etiquette or rules to abide by‚ or a convicted individual may be subjected to physical harm or death. The most obvious characteristic of the prison environment is the absence of privacy. The absence of privacy is a deliberate punishment‚ lavatories

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    Gangs in the Prisons

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    ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. What are Gangs? When did gangs come into existence? 2. How do gangs finance/support their groups? 3. Different types of Gangs in the Prison system 4. Percentage

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    Prison Sentencing

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    Prison sentences are too soft in New Zealand to the criminals who commit serious crimes and need to be harsher. In New Zealand criminals who commit serious crimes are handed a prison sentence. I strongly oppose the sentencing of criminals currently. I believe justice should be served more harshly. Presently the New Zealand court system is too soft on criminals who commit serious crimes. In 2012‚ there was approximately 376‚000 recorded offences. This resulted in 196‚000 convictions. That’s just

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    Corporal Punishment

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    "Should corporal punishment by parents be banned" is always an arguable topic since there are both supporters and people who are against corporal punishment.  Corporal punishment includes pinching‚ hitting or beating with a ruler or stick.  Recently‚ there were some extreme cases of corporal punishment.  A drunken father hit his son and commanded him to walk on the street naked since he was so naughty.  Besides‚ a single mother hurt her daughter with a knife because her daughter did not finish her

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    Discipline and Punishment

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    The Difference Between Discipline and Punishment English 121 Nicole Reale March 21‚2011 The words discipline and punishment can often be used to mean the same thing. But they are very different from each other. To me discipline is a means of helping a child to learn how to act when they are in public as well as when the parent is not around; for example whether it be at school‚ their grandparents house‚ or when being babysat a child should always act as if their parents are there which

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    Capital Punishment

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    Capital Punishment is defined as the legal infliction of the death penalty. The death penalty is corporal punishment in its most severe form and is used instead of life long imprisonment.Putting people to death that have committed extremely terrible crimes is a practice of ancient condition‚ but it has become a very controversial issue in todays society. Capital punishment has been used for centuries‚ even the Bible contains over thirty stories or incidents about a person put to death for a crime

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    Capital Punishment

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    capital punishment One advantage of having capital punishment is that it can serve as a deterrence. When people are aware of the harsh consequences of their actions‚ they would usually prevent such actions to avoid the subsequent punishment that would be carried out. The idea of capital punishment would make many think twice before a certain action such as murder and thus‚ capital punishment can help to decrease the number of crime rate. Another advantage of carrying out capital punishment is to

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    capital punishment

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    Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence‚ while the actual process of killing the person is an execution. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis‚ literally "regarding the head" (referring to execution by beheading).[1] Capital

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    The Prison System

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    The Prison System CJS/200 The history of the American prison system was based partially on the prison system of 18th century England. Whereas the American prison system emphasized punishment as well as rehabilitation and restitution the English system did not. Those offenders incarcerated in the English prison system were comprised of‚ those awaiting trial‚ banishment from the community‚ debtors‚ or those awaiting execution. The American prison system evolved when William Penn instituted

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    Theories of Punishment

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    On Criminal Law–Theories of Punishment July 22‚ 2009 In my criminal law class at law school‚ we discussed four basic theories of “why we punish”: deterrence (“to keep them from doing it”)‚ incarceration (“to keep those who do it away from us”)‚ rehabilitation (“to help them stop doing it”)‚ and retribution (“because they deserve it”). Any punishment should fall in line with your basic theory of punishment. It seems to me that each theory of punishment‚ when applied and examined‚ ends up needing

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