Corrections

Alcatraz was a maximum security prison that operated on an island near San Francisco from 1934 to 1963. It is a popular tourist attraction today, but it was once known for housing some of the nations most notorious and dangerous criminals such as Al Capone. “The Rock”, as it is sometimes refereed to, was closed down because its expenses of operation became to high. The Rock has a long, dark history as it was also used as a military prison from the 1850s to 1933. It is reported that no inmate…

Every jail has its differences and similarities. There were many differences in the way the Miami County jail and the Wabash County jail were built. Since the Wabash County jail was built in 1979 and the Miami County Jail was built in 2009, there were vast differences in the technology of building these jails. Since more technology was available during the creation of the Miami County jail, it allowed for a more open design, a pod style system, and a more technological building. The biggest…

The Ted Talk described how in the state of New York, is one of the two states that trial adolescents as adults and these jails have maltreatment upon the adolescents, who are sentenced for their crimes. For example, Ismael talked about his experience as an inmate at a jail in New York. When he was there, a male correctional officer named Monroe, called him over to talk briefly about the physical attribution that was caused by Ismael and his roommate. Instead of the correctional officer mentoring…

In the criminal justice system the research plays a very big part. The role of all the research is to basically to determine what the major problem is at hand. “Quantitative research methods are typically concerned with measuring criminological or criminal justice reality”(Criminology and Criminal Justice Research). There are many different research methods at hand for researchers to use. The first method being experimental and quasi-experimental research which helps to identify the cause and…

After viewing “The New Asylums”, there are many systematic problems, societal shifts, and/or changes in policies that have contributed to “The New Asylums”. One of the main societal shifts that have contributed to the “The New Asylums” is the nation’s shut down of psychiatric centers. This led to the police department to handle the mentally ill that were left on the streets leading to many arrests. However, a prison’s function is not to treat mentally ill patients; their role in society is to…

Actus reus – a Latin term, “the guilty act”. Proper identification of the act is often the most difficult. (Wright, R., 2013). A judge or jury has to determine what specific acts were prohibited by the statue and if the defendant engaged in those specified acts. Mens rea – examines the person’s mental ability, state of mind once a crime has been committed. Once, Mens rea has occurred, the prosecution is liable to prove without admissible evidence that criminal intent was exemplified in order to…

a. I do believe that it will become too expensive to incarcerate so many individuals for a long period of time. When an individual commits a crime it is the systems belief that if you incarcerate him/her for a lengthy period of time they will have learned their lesson. However, there are individuals that will remain the system for life. So with these type of prisoners there is more creation in maximum security prisons in order to keep them from escaping. An example of this is Pelican Bay,…

Throughout our readings it has become evident that the current relationship between jail and public safety is tumultuous. Public safety has not been increased as the use of jails has increased. In fact holding low and moderate risk defendants in jail during pretrial for even just two to three days is strongly associated with increased rates of recidivism. When low and moderate risk offenders are held from two to thirty days in jail the risk of them recidivating increases significantly when…

In the domestic policy, crime has been a prevalent issue that the government is always putting concerted efforts to resolve. The policy making process has had a tremendous impacts on the issue of crime within the domestic policy. Firstly, when the crime levels rise above what is perceived to be tolerable, the policy makers have to address the issue by formulating the approaches to resolve the issue. The policy makers also implement the approaches set to resolve the issue of crime within the…

##Addressing “Sensationalism” and Moral Panics Sensationalism is news media has been both a subject of and a bolstering contributor to moral panics ins the United States since the beginning of descriptive crime news reporting of the *New York Sun*in 1833 (Lots, 1991). The “sensation” and exaggeration of crime and criminality to the masses created a cascade of moral and ideological counter movements, which increased “fear of crime” (?), that overlaps frequently with moral panic(?). Crime news has…