Prison Article Reviews Samples For Students

The article entitled “ACLU Calls for Immediate Resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Thorough Federal Investigation” published online by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) proffered pertinent issues relative to alleged abuse, brutality, violence and violations to human rights reportedly perpetuated by the deputies of Sheriff Lee Baca to the inmates of the Los Angeles County Jail. As noted, accounts from eyewitnesses, chaplains, and even testimonies from inmates revealed that a culture of violence has been constantly applied to the inmates by the sheriff’s deputies who allegedly allow, inflict, and even encourage “deputy-on-inmate assaults, ...

It is easy for any of the people living today to underrate the value of the freedom and equality enjoyed in the country. This freedom has not always been there. It is an effort of people who lived in the past and sacrificed their all to ensure that racism and ethnicity have been eliminated. After slave trade had ended, the blacks would hardly dream of sharing a restroom with the whites, the power to vote just a dream they never thought would come to pass. A black president would be a dream as impossible as a trip to the sun. Despite all the ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

Article Review: “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage”

Article Review: “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage”
Summary: The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage,” by Paul Krugman aimed to expose the indecency and lies growing within the prison system, beginning with halfway houses in New Jersey . Typically, halfway homes are advertised as a place for prisoners in rehabilitation to find sanctuary as they adjust to the outside world. They are shown as refuges that offer resources for individuals. The New York Times’ investigation however exposed halfway homes in New Jersey to be riddled with underpaid, overwhelmed staff, as well as dangerous inhabitants that did no service for one another. If anything, the ...

The article Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation written by professor Zimbardo provides an overview of the Stanford Prison Experiment and explores the power of the situation over human nature. The article gives an insight into the experiment that took place in 1971, and was terminated after 6 days, even though it was initially planned to last 2 weeks. After the choking discoveries in the Milgram experiment on the power of authority, Philip Zimbardo decides to conduct an experiment on the power of the situation. Zimbardo was keen to discover how people react when ...

Introduction

Late open wellbeing exploration proposes that social prohibition, i.e., being denied access to assets, for example, instruction, lodging, and work, hurts wellbeing, and social consideration pushes prosperity. Upon inspection of the encounters of a populace habitually prohibited from standard public opinion, individuals coming back from penitentiary also jail with substance use issues, to comprehend their viewpoints on the knowledge of reentry and inspire their recommendations for strategies and projects that could better push individual and group prosperity. In late decades, neighborhood, state, and elected criminal equity, pill and other social arrangements have prompted an unstable build in rates of detainment. ...

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Unicor is a critical part of the Bureau of Prison’s painstaking endeavors to reduce the number of offender reentries in prison. Unicor is the trade name given to Federal Prison Industries, or FPI. Its mission is to provide training pertaining to job skills to the maximum number of inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Provision of this training allows inmates to find jobs when they leave prison, and that curtails the chances of habitual relapse into crime. This, in turn, brings down the cost of corrections which have risen considerably over time.
Unicor works ...

In comparison, both models call for the enforcement of laws during the administering of criminal justice, maintenance and control of order in the society, and protect people from injustice practices. On the other hand, the due process model and the crime control model differ in the following manner. The crime control model believes that anyone charged with a crime is guilty and must be punished for his or her actions. In general, the model aims at controlling the criminal behavior of people with an assumption that it is the most essential aspect of criminal justice. On contrary, the due process ...

1 Peter 3:19-20 In the Light of Dominant Themes

In Jewish Literature

Wayne Grudem
Wayne Grudem, in his “Christ Preaching Through Noah: 1 Peter 3:19-20 in the Light of Dominant Themes in Jewish Literature,” offered an interpretative analysis of Peter’s writing. His analysis revolved around three important questions: (1) Who are the spirits in prison? (2) What did Christ preached? (3) When did He preached? He then expounded on them using Views 1to 5, as restated and explicated in concise form below:
View 1: When the Spirit of Christ "which was in them," such as in Noah when he ...

James Baldwin’s short story, Sonny’s Blues, is about two brothers who grew up in Harlem, but end up living very different lives. The unnamed narrator is a married schoolteacher living a conventional life still in Harlem, and his brother Sonny is jailed because of a heroin bust. When the story begins, Sonny is in jail, but when he gets out of jail he goes to stay with his brother back in Harlem. Baldwin’s story has many important themes, including human isolation, suffering, control, and artistic expression.
The theme of human isolation runs throughout the story and connects with ...

The influx of prisoners into the jails of Los Angeles County has caused its population to increase significantly over the last few months. This has forced the officials to look for places in the Central valley to house the prisoners. The program, “realignment”, has led to the relocation of more than 5,000 prisoners who would have otherwise been housed in jails in Los Angeles. The jail system of the county is the largest in the nation and currently has a population of around 18,600 prisoners. Overcrowding will be a problem if the officials fail to find other locations for ...

Surveillance can be an effective tool for social control, no matter what the environment. The reason for that is we all behave differently when we believe we are or are not being watched. For example, we might feel free to play “air guitar,” wildly rocking to the beat of a song on the radio when we are alone, but if we know someone is looking at us, we feel self-conscious, and all we might do is hum the tune or do nothing at all.
This behavior holds true, too, with regard to crime. On the simplest level, a burglar won’ ...

We are closing Guantanamo but we refuse to close our own abusive juvenile correctional facilities.

The juvenile-justice crisis in America can be illustrated by the recent Dickens-like scandal uncovered in Pennsylvania, where two judges ruling over juvenile courts were found to be taking kickbacks in exchange for committing thousands of juveniles into privately owned facilities. Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan took over a million dollars each to deliver “justice.” Many children with minor offenses were sentenced for years in private correctional facilities, without legal representation; one child spent a year in a center for stealing a bit of change. It took a constitutional challenge to set him free. Over 5,000 youths were affected by this ...

In California, Justice for Juveniles

The California Youth Authority (CYA) was a state prison system for youth offenders; it was founded in 1941 to keep juvenile delinquents out of adult prison and provide them with a support system for rehabilitation. It was the belief of lawmakers and social workers at thetime that a better-educated and trained youth would have a greater chance of becoming integrated back into society.
Unfortunately, 50 years later, the system appeared to have broken down, and so damaging to the youth it was supposed to be rehabilitating that the California Youth Authority was eliminated and many of its facilities were forced to shut ...

Who really owns the American prison system? The American people own the system. However, the control in the hands of a few corporates that offers correctional services. America, compared to other developed countries has one of the largest prison populations. As such, what really has led to America imprisoning such a large number of its citizens? In essence, a prisoner’s productivity is minimal while his maintenance in the prison system is extremely costly to the taxpayer. Therefore, the large number of prisoners should worry the financiers of this system. The prison population began to rise when President Nixon ...

Introduction

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions are approaches that use soft instruments to correct or enhance behavioral characteristics of individuals, either to comply with society expectations or to unlearn a particular behavior. A person with a drugs problem may be trained to handle the urges of taking drugs and avoidance of risky situations, with an aim of solving the problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, teaches the subjects a new set of skills designed to increase awareness of thoughts and emotions of an individual. The idea is to re-empower the individual to understand how certain exposures to situations, people ...

The letter of Martin Luther King is a reaction to the condemnation of him and his followers for a protest in Birmingham, Alabama. This condemnation was published in the newspaper, brought to King into prison where he was put for the violation of a court ban on the Birmingham rallies, marches, and pickets, issued on the 10th of April during protests of blacks (held from April 3).
Languishing in his prison cell, King produced one of the most remarkable documents in the history of American thought. The number of local white priests who were friendly to King’s long-term ...

In our society, crime is viewed as an act for which the criminal is solely responsible. In our modern justice system, the punishment meted out for criminal acts may correspond to the crime, but there are a number of significant, overlapping societal factors that cause the criminal behavior that results in punishment. The main cause of crime is the environmental background that had a powerful influence on the transition of law-abiding children to young adult offenders. Certainly, growing up in an environment of impoverished circumstances contributes to the high rate of criminal offenses in America. Race is another highly-significant factor that ...

The British Journal of Community Justice Vol.12 (2):57-66 is an article that discusses how the Corrections Victoria in Australia. The article identified the risk factors that drive women into offending and develop an extraordinary response to the women offenders. The report emphasizes particularly on support and re-integration of these women into the community.Moreover, it looks at the factors that influence women’s self-efficacy, as well as their community integration. The document further outlines the development of The Better Pathway Strategy. The strategy was developed with the realization of the implications of women’s imprisonment as far reaching, with ...

Introduction

The book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo argues that beneath any man lies some degree of evil, so detrimental if exposed under duress. The Lucifer Effect explains how good men can transform when exposed to stressful environments to commit heinous activities beyond imaginable moral magnitudes. In this regard, the author empirically explains the findings of the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) the processes involved in transforming good men into committing evil and heinous activities under duress and powerful situational forces. A comparison between the SPE findings and those of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have strong correlations in ...

Jonathan Simon writes this article with an aim of ending mass incarceration that was rampant during his time. Simon believes that mass incarceration leads to both torture and degradation of human dignity. However, modern correctionalism and the likes of rehabilitation curbs the problem associated with mass imprisonment, providing a more decent place for prisoners. Some institutions may fail to embrace human dignity, but the emergence of Red Cross in 1860 showed concern for humanity that everyone wanted. Prisoners from California are tortured, but only a few people know it, but the majority believes that prisoners suffer less than the ...

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

Summary
The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage” by Paul Krugman highlighted that the government’s decision to privatize prisons and related public services, such as halfway houses, has come to face its consequences—escaped prisoners committing crimes all over again, sometimes even worse than what they have been convicted for. Krugman cited The New York Times’ investigative reports on this issue and case stories on what has been taking place in the state of New Jersey. These studies reveal that such private facilities are inadequately managed, with insufficient number of personnel, and poor prisoner monitoring equipment. However, Krugman also ...

Victims and the Media/ Harold and Kumar/ Article Review

In today’s media crazed world, it can sometimes be difficult to identify the victim in a crisis. Through images on television, the internet, and even or cell phones, we are exposed to too many ideas that appeal to our inner ideals of who the victim may be. The greatest example, of course, is the September 11 attacks. The media scrutinized Muslims, Indians, and anybody else who fit the ideation of the terrorists who launched planes into the WTC towers. That was until the American public and many around the world were sure that the entire Middle Eastern population at ...

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Capital punishment is amongst the most controversial aspects of law and order that have ever been debated in the history of legislation. The advent of capital punishment initiated in pre-historical times and the purpose of this punishment was not just disposing of the accused person on whom the crime has been proven, but also to ensure that an example was made of that person, and a message about the supremacy of law was conveyed into the society.
However, over the period of time and into the modern period, it was highlighted by humanitarian organizations and movements that ...

An individual is the basic unit of society for most Western democracies. As such, laws and the execution of laws (one form of justice) in these societies focus on individual rights. Justice can be seen as two parts. Justice is one sense is reparations, or punishment that a society inflicts upon an individual. This essay looks at texts of Martin Luther King, Sigmund Freud and Thomas Jefferson in order to ascertain each of their guiding philosophies on what consisted of individual rights and justice. Each of them falls in line in a very particular philosophical school of thought with regard to ...

The article that will be reviewed is “Transfer of juveniles to adult court: Effects of a broad policy in one court”. The aim of the study is to determine the effects and implications of transferring juvenile offenders to the adult court.
One of the key points presented in the study are the possible detrimental effects of the transfer. The possibility of a longer sentence for the adolescent offender exists when he is transferred to an adult court, which is quite unlikely if he had been tried in a juvenile court. Another detrimental effect is victimization. When adolescents are place in adult ...

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The two articles “Debt is Good for You" and “Debtors’ Prison" explore the use of debt financing by corporations and contrast it to equity financing, as well as investigate the implications of excess borrowing.

“Debt is Good for You" discusses debt and equity financing by providing a brief overview of the scientific research in this area. It uses the paper by Modigliani and Miller, who claimed that the proportions of equity and debt have no effect on the firm’s value, as a reference point for further discussion and shows the evolution of the theory related to company financing. In ...

The issue of online credit card fraud has become one of the major crimes that can easily be committed using the internet. Due to the lack of policies and laws to prevent the crime, the number of victims continuous to increase since most sale transactions can be completed online using the internet. Online credit card fraud poses damage to the public but requires federal legislation to prevent future crimes. There is lack of corrective mechanisms to deter the proliferation of the online credit card fraud to prevent damage to future victims.
The article of Segal, Ngugi & Mana (2011) explains ...

In December 2013; the Japanese parliament approved a state secrets law. The leading party, The Liberal Democratic party, tabled the law in parliament. This is the party of the ruling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The new law was established to protect state secrets. Despite a lot of criticism and stalling attempts from the opposition, the bill was finally approved into law. The upper house, whose majority members are from the ruling party, approved the bill by 130 to 82. This law gives mandate to heads of ministries and agencies to classify 23 types of information related to diplomacy, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) was associated with various behaviors, including violence, impaired emotional regulation, and aggression, which are associated with criminal behavior. It is estimated that TBI affects 8.5 percent of the population, but the highest prevalence of TBI, which can be up to 60 percent, is recorded among prisoners (Williams, 2012). Because TBI is associated with elevating risk factors for offending behaviors, and because it mainly occurs during early stages of life, it is important to investigate clinical implications of treating TBI to reduce criminal behaviors that may be associated with previous brain injuries.

Literature Review

TBI is a form of ...

Employer and employee sign working agreements that count for the employee’s working contract, agreements that amongst others, refer to non-disclosure policy, respecting the working norms and regulations, code and conduct and so on. This stands at the basis of the working relationship between employees and employer around the world. Violation of this relationship leads to terminating the working contract and in some cases, to inducing the offender employees on a black list, so that they cannot find employment in the same activity sector, as Clifford and Silver – Greenberg report (“Retailers Tract Employee”).
With these general information one could ...

Article Review: How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Summary
Jacob Riis, a journalist who worked on social documentaries, worked to expose the sordid conditions of the poor quarters of New York City in his photojournalistic publication “How the Other Half Lives”. The title itself is a reference to the side of the city different to that known to the upper class, starting his narrative with the police raid on the stale-beer dives – joints where people from the lower class serve unlicensed and improvised beer that is potentially harmful to one’s health (Riis 118).
Riis joined ...

On Feb 5, 2016, a judge in a California Court sentenced Dr. Hsiu Tseng to life in prison for 30 years for the involuntary murder of her patients who totalled 3 in number. Her patients had according to the District Attorney overdosed on the prescriptions that she wrote.
When Dr. Tseng joined Rowland Clinic in California in 2007, little did she know that it would be the last place she would ever practice in her professison. On her short-lived career at Rowland Clinic, she wrote prescriptions for more than 27,000 patients. This translated to about 25 patients in ...

Chapter three Outline and Questions

Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an insight of the role that monetary systems and religion played in the acquisition of debts in the medieval ages, which reflects the current status of financial markets. Religious laws and regulations antagonized debt and usury in the old ages (Geisst 107). For instance, the Roman Catholics believed that debt and banking were morally wrong, and did not portray good biblical beliefs. Therefore, Roman Catholics did not engage in any form of debt or usury. Because of the restrictions imposed on idealists, only Protestants practiced debt and usury(Geisst ...

Whilst drawing illustrations from the American government, Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” revolves around the ideologies of good governance and instances in which a person can defy his or her government. Thus, with illustrations drawn from poetry usage and criticisms regarding the American society, Thoreau’s article covers different topics. For example, there is an argument towards his doubts about the government reforming its ways whilst dealing with the commoners.
While Thoreau concurs with the ideology of a sufficient government being the one that governs least, he still points out that such a rule is only applicable to a people that ...

Editing Form

Use this form and the paper of your choice (not yours) and email them to me . You will be graded on whether or not you know if the papers are cited correctly and if you can recognize the use of first or second person and contractions. Answers must be clear yes or no.

Grammar:

Use of First person: No
Use of Second person: No
Use of contractions: Yes
Complete sentences: Yes

Citations: Yes

All information is cited: Yes
All citations in the paper are on the works cited: Yes
Length (is the paper 3 full pages plus a ...

The term “transnational gangs” has always been used to refer to the spread of Central American gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha into Washington DC, North Carolina and Maryland. Most of these transnational gangs were formed by refugees in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. The gangs were a form of protection. In January, the Congressional Research Service filed a report showing that these gangs were continuing to expand. Kamala Harris, the State Attorney General, feels like the term “transnational gangs” should also include the cooperation that is seen between the Mexican cartels and the California prison ...

The article focuses on the operations of corporate firms in the United States. According to the article, the corporate executives are expected to conduct themselves in a prescribed manner. Previously, the executive of various foreign firms was allowed to conduct themselves in an environment with more freedom. Due to the above mentioned freedom, the foreign firms were able to make a myriad profit as compared to the domestic firms. Reportedly, the corporate executive could easily engage in fraud or corporate misconduct, this enabled the firms to make a higher profit, since they could engage in fraudulent activities to earn illegal profit. Come ...

Criminal evidence

The article under study is called “DNA evidence links Boston Strangler suspect to killing”. Analysis of this article lets us once more get convinced of the importance of criminal evidence and achievements of forensic science for criminal investigation and impleading of a person, who committed the crime. Up-to-date technologies, which are used in forensic biology and medicine, allow identifying people by DNA, which is extracted from such biological materials as blood, saliva and seminal fluid. However, in 1964 biologists were unable to conduct such kind of analysis, so nobody knew for sure, who had strangled and raped young Mary Sullivan ...

1-Identify the impact of this incident on both the MNE and the host country?

For the host country, the Union Carbide disaster exposed the inability and the ineffectiveness of the government in dealing with the disaster. The Indian government suffered humiliation due to western capital. It also reminded the world that India was still struggling to provide basic amenities to its huge 1.2 billion people, despite its ambitions of becoming a super power. Taken by public anger at the lenient charges, the government was forced to take damage control measures. Comparisons were also drawn with the US government’s handling of the BP Oil spill, where it went all out to make the company ...

Article Review: Trying Children as Adults

This 2002 paper by Allen discussed the increasing recent trend by many U.S. states to amend laws so that juvenile offenders can more easily be transferred to adult courts. Allen saw the trend as regrettable, focusing more on punishment and less on rehabilitation, following recent Federal legislation reducing state-level independence in the juvenile justice processes.
In his Introduction, Allen commented that whilst America allegedly holds its children in high regard, it nonetheless increasingly heads towards trying juveniles in adult courts for more and more crimes. He stated the country has gone “full circle”, starting from a justice system with ...

According to article, “Early sexual experience and prostitution” by James and Meyerding (1977), Prostitution is defined as the process of providing sexual services with an overall aim of obtaining a compensation for these services provided. The forms of compensations usually take a monetary form but may be modified to suit the prostitute’s needs. For example in modern societies people have been engaging in prostitution in order to acquire a certain favor such as job promotion, employment, protection in term of security and academic issues to mention but a few. The act of prostitution can be adopted by either gender in the society. ...