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This article informs about the influences of state punishment and private prisons. Although state punishment is an important aspect of either prison system, this particular article opens up for more questions and ideologies of the private prison systems to occur. The main question that this article argues is why both the public and prison systems are capable of falling so far below the obligations that they must fulfill? This particular study looks into this question through inferring a deep…

In the documentary film Where to Invade Next by Michael Moore he visits a various number of countries across Europe to experience how Europeans view and handle certain social issues. He quickly notices how these views differ immensely from the way Americans see and handle these common issues such as education, healthcare, nutrition, and more. He invades these countries to see what kind of enlightening tips they have to offer and how America has the potential to grow and greatly benefit from…

Symbolic Interactionalism would be the best choice of theory to analyze the increase in white collar crime in an area. Because this theory is built around a central idea that people are active in creating their lives, using this approach would allow me to understand the contributing factors which might be causing a rise in white collar crime. Some of the contributing factors affecting an individual are the smaller groups which an individual learns the behavior, acceptance of deviant behavior…

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with the outside world, other than the occasional visitor. Prison wardens need to create more classes and opportunities for convicted felons to prepare for the realities of the outside worlds. The model of corrections that this reform would go under is community corrections. This type of corrections works to help reintegrate criminals back…

Privatized Prison System With the United States being the land of the free, you would expect to see very low incarceration rates, but this isn’t the case. Crime rates in the American metropolis areas are blown completely off of the scale when compared to other countries around the world. Which leads to the question, “ why does the United States incarcerate more people than any other country?” through the duration of this essay I will attempt to reveal and provide possible solutions to the…

Lisa Godinho with the tittle of Probation Officer at Kendall County Court Services is agreeing to be interviewed. There are several reasons as why interviewing a probation officer was my choice. The main one being the importance of rehabilitating an individual, which probation officers take a huge part. They rehabilitate an individual by supervision to ensure their offenders are behaving themselves, ensuring the offender does not commit another offence. There are however several cases where…

It is no secret that all over the country people are arrested everyday for crimes such a murder, rape, and manslaughter. What many people aren't aware of is that the government is providing these felons with free education. Many prisoners take advantage of this and receive their GED or a college degree such as an associates or bachelors degree. This is significant to our country because while these people are being rehabilitated for what they have done they are also advancing themselves with the…

The F2052SH has been replaced by the ACCT, as the F2052SH needed to be developed in order to more effectively monitor suicide prevention. The ACCT is a plan which can be opened by a member of the prison staff, if they see them as at risk of suicide or self-harm (Prison Reform Trust, 2012). This was put in place in order to act as a care plan system which will allow prison staff to help to calm a possible suicidal act, build on a prisoners strengths and reduce their vulnerability. It also is in…

Punishment such as fine and probation were part of criminal justice system in preventing crime. Fines can be used in crime prevention and was more effective for less serious offenses committed by the first-time offenders as well as even for all age groups of recidivists (Feldman, 1993). Coldwell (1965) has listed the advantages of fines as a punishment in crime prevention which include of no stigmatization or upset of family life in term of relationship, the offender has no longer need to…