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    Community Prisons

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    Community corrections and institutional corrections have been a big part of our criminal justice system and helps us deter crime different ways. Both do the same thing by protecting our society and punishing criminals two different ways. In order to just decide on which one we want to be expanded we have to go more into depth on understanding them first‚ which will be all in this paper. Without neither of these different types of corrections our society would be reckless and very unsafe but with

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    Designer: Osama Kalkattawi Date: 30/06/2013 Approved by: |Analysis | |What types of analysis serve as the basis of this training program? | |

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    thefollowing question In Why the Future Doesnt Need Us (pp. 285-301)‚ Bill Joy expresses a powerful pessimism about the dangers of technologies that may be developed later in our century. Joy also a muted optimism about humans ability to use ethical principles to avoid those dangers. What are Joys best reasons for being pessimistic What are his strongest reasons for expressing optimism As you consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of those reasons‚ explain whether and why you find yourself more

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    Examine and comment on the view that religion provides us with good moral guidance‚ with reference to the topic you have investigated? Abortion is the medical ethic of which I have investigated However to understand how the statement can be applied one must come to terms with the definitions abortion. Abortion can be defined as the intended termination of an unborn child‚ a foetus. The abortion act was introduced to the UK in 1967; however in Ireland the approach is still illegal. With abortion there

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    possibilities The imagination stands in some essential relation to truth and reality. An imaginative journey employing possibilities will see things to which the intelligence is blind and therefore reveal realities. Through my study of Coleridge’s This Lime Tree Bower my Prison‚ Kubla Khan‚ Frost at Midnight and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows‚ Margaret Atwood’s Journey to the interior‚ E. Harburg’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow‚ Susan Hickman’s Sacred

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    Counselling In Prisons

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    Elizabeth Zoccole Are Counseling Program Available in Prisons of Various Security Levels? Introduction and Abstract With respect to the topic of drug and alcohol awareness programs being available in state‚ federal or local prisons‚ the five articles that are stated below contain relevant and statistical information. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 3 out 4 State and 4 out 5 Federal prisoners may be categorized as alcohol or drug involved offenders. If such programs are put in place

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    Education In Prisons

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    As we society grows‚ so do the social needs of society. In the history of America‚ the main goal for the criminal justice system is to keep our communities safe. Providing the best educational programs for offenders inside a prison institution could reduce recidivism. Gordon and Weldon (2003) exemplifies that the ultimate goal of correctional education is to reduce recidivism. This occurs when the inmate becomes self-sufficient they could re-integrated in the community and become productive in the

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    Punishment In Prisons

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    Effect. A consequence is presented after a given behavior is enacted‚ and if done properly‚ leads to a decrease in the unwanted behavior. The effectiveness of punishment however is a bit more complicated in real life situations such as that of the prison system. There are three ways effectiveness of punishment can be increased. Frequency of application‚ immediacy of application‚ how often and how quickly punishment is enacted plays a role on deterrence‚ and punishment used with positive reinforcement

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    Chapter 18 Ap Us History

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    The US’s victory in the Mexican War resulted in renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories‚ a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery‚ the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US‚ and a rush of settlers to new American territory in California 3. The Wilmot Proviso‚ if adopted‚ would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War 4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession threatened to split

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    in life. In the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau there was a quote stating “I did not wish to live what was not life” (Thoreau)‚ also “when I came to die‚ I discovered I had not lived ” (Thoreau). These quote implied that he went on with life‚ he did not live it. “I went to the woods because I wished to live”‚ meaning when he didn’t live his life‚ the woods helped him leave it to the last of his days. I know a few people who are like this and one is my by far favorite. Martin Luther King J.R.

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