Prison Research Proposals Samples For Students

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Rehabilitation of mentally ill in prisons and jails: issues and concerns

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) in 2005 added the term “rehabilitation” as a part of the agency’s official title, becoming the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or the CDCR. However, the change in title did not result in a change of philosophy in the treatment of prisoners in the United States. Though the reintegration of the methodology of rehabilitation officially entered the regime of the CDRC, there is little or no evidence that the methodology has significantly changed (Berkeley- University of California, 2009, p. 277).
Berkebile (2010, p.1) reported that by 2009, California’s penal facilities ...

Abstract

Overview: It has been shown that there is a positive correlation between a reduction in recidivism and prisoners’ acquisition of education while in prison. Correctional institutions have invested heavily in the provision of education for prisoners in order to reduce recidivism. Career and vocational programs are the most important. Prisons collaborate with a number of businesses in the provision of vocational education to inmates in the form of release programs where inmates get acquired with various job skills through on-the-job training occasions.
Objective: To evaluate the role of Bandura’s social learning theory and self-efficacy and self-determination theory in the learning ...

Criminal Law

Executive Summary
This paper will discuss of the current flawed policies in the criminal justice arena and provide recommendations on how to revise these mistakes to make the policies more effective. The primary consideration of the report is to maintain public safety and to implement cost-effective policies. As an expert in the field of criminal justice, the goal is to advise the Task Force by creating an Expert Panel and to present a report to the Governor based on the problematic areas of the criminal justice arena in the State of Florida. The following objectives of the report shall ...

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Medical Regulatory Body

The Government,
HEALTH PEOPLE2020 PROGRAM TO BE EXTENDED TO THE PRISONS
In Writing Assignment 1, We looked at the health of the imprisoned in the United States jails, prisons and found that among the prisoners there are many incidences of STI’s. For instance, among the prison people there are those living with HIV/AIDS that compounds the health problems affecting the uninfected prisoners. Numerous of such individuals contract the disease before they are passed through the prison system. The inmates are therefore faced with high risks factors of contracting as well as transmitting the disease while ...

Introduction

Life in a prison at a glance looks haunting and horrifying that comes along with an added burden of issues related to esteem, mental disorders, financial constraints and exposure to high risk behaviors. United States has two major types of prisons; the state and the federal prison where each of them have different security levels depending on the severity of the crime, punishment and facilities provided to the offenders. Although the reason behind incarceration differs from one individual to the other, imprisonment leaves a lasting adverse effect on the life of the prisoners. The life before imprisonment completely changes when a person is ...

Abstract

The proposed study will delve into how the contemporary federal security agents can successfully combat the terrorist organizations within the United States penitentiaries. In particular, the study will aim at contributing to the body of knowledge regarding fighting the domestic terrorism, that is, the terrorism originating from the state and federal correctional facilities. The study will also aim at helping the federal agents avert the recruitment and radicalization of the inmates inside the United States prisons. The study will utilize the survey research design due to its cost effectiveness, generalizability, and efficiency. The research participants will include the security ...

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Returning to prison for paroled inmates: Introduction

The prison population in the United has steadily risen over the past three decades. Since 2008, the prison population has slowly been decreasing; however, as of 2012, there were still more than 2 million confined in US jails and prisons. The report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) aver that since 1990, more than 590,000 convicts are discharged yearly from the correctional system in the Federal and state jurisdictions, and more than 5 million former inmates are under community based monitoring programs. It is expected that upon release from prison or community based programs, these will ...

Corporal punishment is considered inflicting of physical pain upon a prisoner as a punishment for violation of a prison rule or regulation. Such forms of conduct include, but are not limited to whipping, cold shower, electrical shocking devices and suspension from cell bars by handcuffs. The use of solitary imprisonment as a system of punishing violations of prison discipline is not included within corporal punishment definition. Most states have no statutes that specifically forbid the use of corporal punishment. Other states, however, prohibit corporal punishment in detention facilities by the statue.
The use of corporal punishment to reinforce prison ...

A growing number of probation officers, judges, prosecutors as well as other juvenile professionals are advocating for a juvenile justice system which is greatly based on restorative justice. These groups of people have been frustrated by the policy uncertainty between retribution and treatment as well as unrealistic and unclear public expectations. As a primary mission, the balanced approach or policy allows juvenile justice systems together with its agencies to improve in their capacity of protecting the community and ensuring accountability of the system and the offenders. It enables the youths to become productive and competent citizens. This guiding philosophical framework for ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to determine the deterrent effect of the death penalty or capital punishment in the commission of future crimes. Most of the criminal experts believe that the justification for the imposition of the death penalty against criminals should be for retributive grounds and to make the criminals suffer the consequences of their actions. Thus, when a person kills another, the retributive effect of capital punishment or the death penalty is take the life of the murderer (Radelet & Akers, 1996). The main reason for the imposition of the death penalty is to discourage the murderers to ...

1). Introduction
This section should introduce the topic that you plan to research. You should detail the specific question you seek to answer (e.g. what is the nature of the relationship between CCTV installation and burglary reduction?) and set out a short list of clear aims and objectives.

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Zimbabwe has one of the most notorious crime statistic worldwide. With more than 75% of unemployed people in the country (Sunga, 1997), a variety of violent and nonviolent crimes became the only means of survival for many young citizens of Zimbabwe. Several international studies demonstrated that while walking in the daylight an ...

Introduction

The topic that was chosen for this research study is the death penalty. The occurrence of heinous crimes and rise in the criminality rate supports the restoration of death penalty. Many of the death penalty advocates believe that is a legitimate sanction against murderers for retributive purposes. The more compelling reason to restore the death penalty is the positive claims on its deterrent effect to future crimes. Thus, the punishment can be regarded as a lawful discipline to discourage hardened criminals from their wrongdoings.
This topic was chosen because there are several countries around the globe which questioned the legitimacy ...

Introduction

How does the factor of gender impact the concept of violent offending?
One of the most commonly held notions is that males have a higher propensity to commit violent crimes compared to women. This holding is one of the most widely held concepts in the area of criminology. However, there is a growing debate as to the scope of the “gender gap” in terms of violent offending has shifted in recent years. A number of commentators hold that the gap is described in terms of its stability; others proffer that there is an observable closing of the gap, particularly ...

- Introduction
Establishing justice for the victim of a crime is one of the purposes of the legal justice system; it is a founding basis upon which other legal principles are built. There is a difference between justice and revenge, however; and revenge is often the topic of discussion when including victims in the legal process is concerned, particularly in the sentencing phase. The discussion here will center around the question of whether the victim or victims should be involved in the sentencing process, given their close emotional connection with the crime in question.
- Literature Review
A number ...

CHAPTER I

I. INTRODUCTION A. Conflict Theory and Racial Profiling in Drug Related Cases
The problem of racially biased arrest is getting more serious. According to the New York Times Editorial Board (2013), updated federal data show that this problem “is far more extensive that was previously known — and is getting worse.” On a national average, the Blacks are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana as compared to the Whites. This disparity is even more pronounced in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, states where Blacks are eight times as likely to be arrested compared to other ...

Objectionable material is a publication expresses, depicts, and describes issues that have to deal with horror, sex, cruelty, crime, or violence. Objectionable occurs when the publication is likely to be injurious to the general public. This implies that all the objectionable material has been banned from use and spreading to the general public (Jacob, 1999). There are a number of factors used to determine whether a publication is objectionable and whether it should be restricted or not. The consideration is given to the point in which the publication deals with acts of torture caused by inflicting physical harm on ...

Thesis: Because they focused on correcting legal discrimination instead of social discrimination, African Americans gained greater equality during the 1960s through the efforts of the NAACP and civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

- Introduction—discuss the history of segregation and discrimination before the Modern Civil Rights Movement.
- Define terms—Modern Civil Rights Movement, legal segregation and discrimination, social segregation and discrimination, and
- Jim Crow laws and other ways that segregation and discrimination were written into laws
- Discuss previous efforts by early civil rights leaders including Booker T. ...

Psychology

Answer to Question

A. Variables
1. IV #1: Ordinary manipulated between

Levels: Robbery

Forgery
2. IV #2: Attractive manipulated between

Levels: Robbery

Forgery
3. DV: the mean number of sentencing months determined using arithmetic test

B. Hypotheses

1. Main effects
Ordinary – There is a significant effect for attractiveness perception when it comes to the length of sentencing imposed on ordinary looking male than the more attractive male.
Attractive – The nature of offence may have a significant. Considering the interaction (see below) there is a difference on the length of sentencing between robbery and forgery. Attractive male is likely to be sentenced for a longer ...

Do offenders show less empathy than non-offenders?

Different people show different emotions towards different things in society. The level of this emotion of empathy differs from one person to another. In an argument by Davis (1994) human beings are created in way that they show emotion on every aspect of the environment. The author further argues that what differs is the rate at which this empathy is expressed. For instance, it is a general assumption that women show a greater depth of empathy compared to women, women have deeper and much sensitive emotions. These differences are attributed to the psychological strength and capabilities of an individual. & (2009) argue ...

My final project is going to focus on the representation of female masculinity in popular media and especially as seen in Orange is the New Black (OINB). The representation of gay women on television started back in the 1980s in the medical series called Heartbeat. It took so long a time until the 21st century for society to accept their existence. Television plays a very critical role as mainstream media, and many people find themselves glued to it. In order for society to appreciate gender diversity that has strayed from mainstream traditional gender relations, it is important to look ...

the role they play in the human rights movement

Background 2

Human Rights Movement 2
Type of Organisation 3
Role of Organisation 4
Outcomes 5

Bibliography 6

Background:
The politics of human rights are undertaken by various organisations and what they do in order to promote their ideological positions is important in their development. The mandates, or mission statements, of these organizations are important aspects in their ability to promote and carry out their goals. Through the implementation of these considerations, the organizations are able to provide moral and legal frameworks for the international community to develop a consistent rationale ...

[Institution Title]

Domestic Violence: An Evaluation of the Violence against Women Act of 1994

Domestic violence affects thousands of people each year. In the United States, there were 7,047 cases of domestic violence reported in 2005. According to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2008, domestic violence and intimate partner violence affected some 6.2 million women in the United States. Domestic violence results in psychological damage, physical injury, death and other damages. Unfortunately, the problem of domestic and family violence continues to grow in the United States (American Bar Association, 2005, pp. 1-18).
In the past, victims of domestic violence kept quiet about abuse. Their pleas for help fell ...

Annotated Bibliographies

2pac World. (2013). 2pac Alive Theories. Retrieved from 2pac World: http://www.2pacworld.co.uk/tupac-death/tupac-alive-theories/
This website talks about Tupac’s life, his music, his death and the conspiracies that he is still alive. The theories have made many people believe that Tupac still lives. Suge Knight, who was driving the car Tupac was riding was uninjured in the shooting. Furthermore, he never showed up for questioning. Another theory claims that Tupac wore a bulletproof vest everywhere he went. The fact that he failed to wear one to the Tyson fight raises eyebrows. The video of the song “I ain’t Mad at ...

That fateful night and how one abused man could be responsible for such a heinous crime

One late night in November of 1959, two peopled murdered a family of four in a small Kansas town. It was a robbery and although they could have left right away with the small change in their pockets, the family died. Discovering who actually pulled the trigger was a shock to many. It was not Richard Eugene Hickock, a pedophile and rapist, who ran through the house killing each victim one by one. It was the one who appeared gentle and shy; the rather artistic one who snapped in the last few minutes of the robbery. Someone whom even Truman Capote was sympathetic towards. ...