Corrections

influence the establishment of the first prisons used as criminal rehabilitation centers. Therefore at the time when implementations of capital punishment on variety of petty crimes were declined the notion of incarceration as a form of punishment and correction had a great deal of appeal. So during 19th century capital punishment regarded as inappropriate for many crimes that it had previously carried out therefore imprisonment had replaced the death penalty for the…

was written in February of 2006 in Corrections Today and to also educate the reader on the complex problem of sexual assault in prisons nationwide. Some of the findings are examining how it has progressed, the National Study it went under, the Research Solicitations such as Prevention, Risk Assessment, and Medical-Psychological Impact, Protecting Human Research Subjects, and Looking to the Future. Some other things to look into inside…

I am currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in the area of criminal justice with a minor in psychology. Acquiring this degree from Belmont Abbey College provides me with the skills for supporting offenders to transition into their community. Society requires for their citizens to abide by the laws and offenders should have opportunities to gain life and work skills for reintegration. Consequently, from this course I expect to learn the history of the correctional system and how the system…

Intro: The corrections system in the United States has been under scrutiny over the years. Since the early 1900’s the inmate population in the United States has continued to grow. No other country in the world has such a high percentage of its population incarcerated. Roughly 750 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated in the U.S. The world average is only 166 per 100,000, proving that we are extremely high (Webb, 2007). It is known that one of the main reasons for our high number of…

Panopticism is a modality of social control, the aim is to be an overt method of technology that has entirely changed the ways this power is exercised (Sheridan, 2016 ). It describes about the power relation as supervision, control and correction (Brunon-Ernst, 2012). Panopticism is a social theory named of the panopticon.There are many sites of discipline with specific technology of power, the most common technology is Panopticon. Panopticon was originally a concept of the prison building…

The use of crime data is important to criminal justice agencies for various reasons. Some of which include the prevention and prediction of crimes. The data is collected and stored in “crime categories on which local and federal authorities maintain data, ordered by their increasing degree of harm to the general public” (Chen et.al 2004, para 6). It is important but it also has its drawbacks. If for example, a person commits multiple crimes, only the most serious is counted into the data.…

to positively affect individuals and communities. Objectives: Saint Louis University’s Transition to Employment Program is facilitated by SLU’s Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy within the City of St. Louis Division of Corrections. The goal is to equip residents with life skills to…

Every day, assaults, riots, rapes and murders are a fact of life in our nation’s prisons. In my opinion, sometimes our correctional system seems to cause more problems than assistance to the society. The system is very expensive, overcrowded, and inefficient in certain aspects. One of the problems The United States Correctional System faces today is prison violence. Violence is not random or mindless but steamed from identifiable conflicts between inmates that had escalated due to the lack of…

In discussion of the prison system of the U.S., one of the many controversial issues is the size of the prison population. According to statistics, although the U.S. has 5 percent of the world population, it includes 20 percent of its’ prisoners. On one hand, some people argue that there should be more people jailed. On the other hand, some contend that the prison population should be reduced. There are many factors to consider rather than simply jailing more people or not. These factors include…

One of the country's most troubling issues is the overcrowding of prisons. In fact, according to the Bureau of Justice, eighteen states operated their facilities with over 100 percent capacity. This means that 36 percent of prisons operated by the United States are overcrowded. One of the largest contributing factors of this overcrowding is the incarceration of individuals for drug-related crimes. Drug users make up a large group of the inmates in United States prisons, according to the Bureau…