...attainment of program goals and quality of services are assessed. Program planning is defined as an organized process through which a set of coordinated activities or interventions is developed to address and facilitate change in some or all of the identified problems; thus, it is a means for development or change (Brooks/Cole, 2003). Only after the program interventions are implemented, then the performance and the attainment of intended objectives are then evaluated. Program evaluation provides useful information used for improving the programs and the service delivery systems (Brooks/Cole, 2003). Program planning and evaluation is very important when it comes to grant proposals. A grant proposal is a formal proposal submitted to a government or civilian entity that outlines a proposed project and shows budgetary requirements and requests monetary assistance in the form of a grant (Entrepreneur staff, 2016). Before writing a grant proposal, organizations must first have a proper program plan and evaluation process. Funding sources are no longer willing to allocate resources for human service agencies and expect merely a report on whether or not the program and service providers did what they said they would do (Brooks/Cole, 2003). In advance, funders want to know what benefits will be gained from the services provided; therefore, programs are now required to evaluate their services and show the results of the services provided, such as process, outcome, and impact. This means...
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...Brooks persuades his audience by using forms of the pathos. Because he is so passionate in the delivery of his writing, he evokes emotion to the reader. The emotional appeal is accomplished in a few different ways. His argument is so relatable to people all over the world. If you’re not in the situation of the middle working class, you probably know someone who is. Brooks speaks about the diminishing amount of respect that we get if we don’t make enough money, and on top of that, the stress that comes with it. The working class has also been defined as not being well educated and less capable of doing things white collared workers can do. This isn’t necessarily true though; since the 1970’s, both economic and occupational insecurity have become...
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...02/23/2024 Wrongful convictions affect everyone involved. According to the National Institute of Justice, being wrongfully convicted means that “the person convicted is factually innocent of the charges” (Wrongful Convictions, n.d.). They have been around since the beginning of the criminal justice system, and the numbers continue to grow. Eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, and flawed forensic evidence are the leading causes of wrongful convictions, which result in detrimental consequences for those involved. The purpose of this report is to analyze the main causes of wrongful convictions and to propose potential solutions. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS Problem Defined Wrongful Convictions are when the person convicted of a crime is...
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...the bad guy because that is just the beginning of a long work on rehabilitation to prevent by analyzing the motive of every offender and been able to prevent more crimes of occurring. Legal and Correctional Psychology follows the behavior of the offender during their time inside and outside the correctional with the only purpose to understand what lead them to offense in order to prevent more murders, suicide , child abuse and so on. In America, Forensic Psychology plays an important role in the Criminal Justice System, with special focus in Legal and Correctional Psychology. In the last 30 years Forensic Psychology has developed as a field and in 2001 was recognized by the psychological American Association (APA)( Heilbrun, K., & Brooks, S). It is well known worldwide and for helping Juries and supplying evidence on the case. It has been used to encouraged police enforcement officers to learn how to profile behaviors of offenders. Forensic Science is not only linked with clinic psychology,...
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...This article is aimed at reviewing the movie titled The Shawshank Redemption; we will analyze thepower of hope and optimism of both inmates and warden of Shawshank Prison. The main thing that gives inmates of Shawshank Prison the will to live is Hope. Hope is a deep feeling of expectation towards a certain thing and desire for it to happen. It is usually being optimistic of positive outcomes. Andy is one of the prisoners who is full of hope. Other prisoners like his sense of hope and they believe it is what keeps them going. Hope made Andy survive his 28 years in prison with the idea of escaping which he finally did. With his help, prisoners get beer, which they drink and make them have hope of being free and enjoy it as free men. As years...
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...Female correctional facilities are treating deviant women as insane, and over-prescribing psychiatric drugs on inmates, using medication as a solution to every problem and also to quiet them down. This practice violates their human writes, not to mention the dreadful side-effects of these drugs, that cause more harm than good. Angela makes an important statement about how women who broke the law are treated as insane, and men are treated as criminal. “That is, deviant men have been constructed to as a criminal. While deviant women have been constructed as insane. Regimes that reflect this assumption continued to inform the women's prison. Psychiatric drugs continued to be distributed far more extensively to imprisoned women that to their male...
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...something of himself and to become free no matter what the cost inspires Red to find his own freedom free in the end. Andy finds ways to keep his sanity through all the hardship he goes through with the wardens, the sisters, and himself. Red sees how Andy uses the rock hammer and the rock blankets to make beautiful sculpted pieces of stone and Red realizes that is how he keeps his calm and his sanity throughout his time in Shawshank prison. This hope that Red sees in Andy’s eyes is what inspires Red to keep on believing and hoping for his freedom. After Brooks Hatlin paroles, Andy takes his place as the librarian. Andy sees how small and dingy the library is, so Andy makes it his job to increase the size and content of the prison library eventually making it the best prison library in Maine. While tarring the roof of the license plate shop, Andy overhears Byron Hadley’s windfall inheritance problem and he helps him save every cent of his money through tax loopholes. So from this point on Andy becomes the prison tax man making him an indispensable prison asset. Andy also helps inmates study for and pass their high school equivalency tests. Red sees Andy’s newfound importance and that inspires Red to strive for freedom. Once Andy gets settled in to Shawshank, he calls upon the assistance of Red to get him a rock hammer to keep himself occupied. One night Andy sees all the former prisoners of that cell carved into the cell...
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...However, we continue to place value on such objects, beyond what they cost us economically, in part because our consumer culture encourages it. Leonard discusses the ways that society and advertisements insist that our own individual value is impacts by the “stuff” we own, and as such we get stuck in an endless loop of buying these things that really shouldn’t be important and are not healthy for the environment. To resolve this, she believes that we must curb our levels of consumption and place value instead on new ways of thinking and means of sustainability, rather than marketed goods (Leonard). John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” brings up similar problems with the constant feed of advertisements and publicity that are often much more influential than we realize, even impacting the things in which we place our values (Berger 130). He states that “capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible,” which is today being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable” (Berger 154). The article also breaks down art as an example, something that holds a cultural and historical significance,...
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...hospital stays, and attempting to reduce the number of admissions" (Steadman, Monahan, Duffee, Hartstone, & Robbins 1984). While the intentions were good, the act itself has become "one of the most well-meaning but poorly planned social changes ever carried out in the United States" (Torrey, Kennard, Eslinger, Lamb, and Pavle 2010). This event has had a huge impact on the criminal justice system, causing jails and prisons to become the main healthcare provider for people with Serious Mental Illness in the United States. Deinstitutionalization has not worked as planned. The current figures indicate that at least 16% of inmates in prison have a serious mental illness (Torrey et al 2010). With the decrease in state run mental hospitals jails and prisons are now primary health care providers for the mentally ill. All the act of deinstitutionalization has done is shifted costs from hospitals into prisons where many people cannot get adequate treatment for their symptoms. The burden is now on the justice system, and the public, to care for these people. Healthcare in prison was constitutionally mandated by the Supreme Court in 1976 in the case of Estelle v. Gamble (Slate & Johnson 2008). While treatment must be provided, the resources available are not always the best options for individuals. Costs are also higher for caring for inmates with a mental illness, which affects local and state budgets, taxes, and how money is allocated. Restructuring of the mental health care system...
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...Literacy programs can be established in schools, prisons, library or community centers. A former Law Enforcement, Tanya Serron Misselt, witness the literacy crisis with the youth. After Law enforcecerment career, Tanya became a librarian, and as a librarian she help set up Literacy program. From her law enforcement experience, she structure efficient and effective literacy program targeted at the community’s early-learning deficits. According to Misselt (2017) Law Enforcement experience aid her to understand the issue and attempt to solve the issue; and therefore Tanya’s literacy program made impact on literacy crisis with youth. As Tayna attempt to lessen the literacy barriers, Williamson address interruption and previous knowledge barrier. Williamson literacy program dealt with hands on experience then write from your experience. Since Williamson literacy programs were so efficient and successful, Williamson implement two literacy program within a prison, and the literacy programs were Garden Project and Alcatraz Project. According to Williamson, the garden project was successful due to writing assignment related to their experience with gardening. The Alcatraz Project offers young offender opportunities to express themselves through writing;...
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...state prisons, and county jails in 2013. The main reason is because of high-occurrence rate of criminal deviance happened. Based on the research, races and classes are two main factors caused criminal deviances. And based on the historical data, white and black arrested rate for murder and robbery are almost the same while white arrested by forcible rape and forgery more (Around 70%). But there’s a significance difference in population of race since the report of population in 2013 showed that 72.4% of population is white alone and only 12.6% of population is black alone, which means black race has the higher criminal rate. And among the violent crime in the US, the assaults stay the highest and murders stay the lowest throughout the history. Both rates per 100,000 population committed assault and robbery crimes varied a lot throughout the history and reached the peak in 1990’s and both rates of rape and murder stayed relatively the same throughout the history. With the high requirements and costs (Around $30,000 per inmate/year) of prisons to hold these inmates, the cash-strapped states start to give their prison operation industry to private prisons. The modern private prison business first emerged and established itself publicly in 1984 when the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was awarded a contract to take over a facility in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Now private prison is a $5 billion industry and 8.4% of US prison population is housed in private prisons. The US...
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...continues to affect her seventeen years later. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Paulina was unjustly raped and tortured by The torturer who was the doctor in military abductees. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy was unjustly assaulted and raped by both guards and other prisoners, The "sisters" , for two years. Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Paulina wants to do justice by herself, she doesn't listen to her husband who tells her that now there is a commission to solve all these problems She throughly believes that In The Shawshank Redemption, someone needs to be punished for Andy fight back the sisters to what happened to her , So She receive the justice he deserves, kidnaped Dr. Roberto Miranda. Andy then receive justice from the guards.The sisters get assaulted themselves until one of them couldn’t walk and Andy's raping is stopped. . Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Dr Miranda was unjustly forced to confess that he raped and tortured her even though he was being honest and stubbornly proclaims his innocence. In The Shawshank Redemption, Even though Tommy tells the warden that Andy is an innocent man, Tommy was unjustly killed for...
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...“Mr. Brooks” I chose to do my term paper on the film “Mr. Brooks.” The Plot of the Film consists of the main character; Earl Brooks who is played by Kevin Costner, owner of a successful box business, who is married to a devoted wife, which they have a loving daughter together and love unconditionally. But Mr. Brooks has a terrible secret that he has been able to hide from everyone. That terrible secret happens to be that he is a psychopathic serial killer who is known in media as the “Thumbprint Killer.” Being a wealthy, successful businessman recently honored by the Portland, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce as "Man of the Year" as well as a philanthropist no one has ever suspected him. Being unable to control his horrific addiction, Brooks gives in to his sadistic, all too real alter ego “Marshall” played by William Hurt. A pesky, voyeuristic witness “Mr. Smith,” played by Dane Cook catches him in the act of his latest crime. The rush that Mr. Smith felt after seeing Mr. Brooks brutally kill a couple he used to watch and take pictures of while engaging in sexual activities has set him on a path of destruction and he is taking all the wrong steps to get there. Then there’s the detective, “Tracy Atwood,” played by Demi Moore who has been on the case for quite some time without Mr. Brooks knowledge of it adds a few twists and turns to an already terrifying game of cat and mouse. The way the script has been written, is a “moral” one. You have a man, “Mr. Brooks” who is fighting...
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...Judgment Call NICOLE SINGLETON-BROOKS Kaplan Ethics and the Professional LS501 Professor John Gray August 26, 2013 Judgment Call Teleology – Jane is the victim of circumstances, not murder. If she is found guilty, she will go to jail for a crime she didn’t comment. By facts being missing from evidence, the best decision is to forge Jane’s signature to prevent an innocent woman from dying needlessly. There probably would have little or no remorse for doing so either. Of course the problem with altering evidence is that the attorney could possibly be caught. If that were to happen, the attorney would be the one who ended up in prison. Because of Double Jeopardy, Jane wouldn’t be retried for murder, but the attorney could end up with several years to serve. Would it have been worth it then? Possibly, for knowing that he/she did the right thing, but then their life, children’s lives, family and loved ones would end up suffering. It may be worth it though knowing he/she had saved someone’s life. Egoism – The attorney could look at their actions for forging Jane’s signature as a definite way to free her, thereby enhancing their own career as an attorney. Probably a high profile case, getting Jane off without the worry of getting a guilty criminal off would ease their conscience and build their career at the same time. Conversely, if they get caught, they get disbarred and jailed. Utilitarianism – By forging Jane’s signature and getting her off, she’s one less innocent...
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...Creating an effective plan for the management and treatment of female offenders There are nearly 2.1 million violent female offenders annually in the United States (Greenbelt et al. 2000). Three out of four female violent offenders commit simple assaults, and three out of four female violent offenders attack other women. The incarceration rate for women is increasing at nearly twice the rate of men (Gater, 2005). Some risk factors contributing to the increase in criminal behavior among women include spousal abuse, substance abuse, and mental illness. The treatment of female offenders is becoming an increasingly important issue. Female offenders are often incarcerated in facilities designed for male treatment and rehabilitation needs. In the past, it was considered that male and female inmates had similar treatment needs, but as correctional administrators become aware of the increasing numbers and the differing needs of female offenders, they must re-evaluate the available treatment programs and begin to implement revisions to the management of program plans. It is now clear that differences in treatment between women and men within the judicial and correctional systems often have harmed rather than helped women (Harris 1998). In addition, Harris (1998) adds that evidence continues to grow of ways in which women’s experiences have been tied to their race and class, as well as the part of the country in which they lived and other personal characteristics. Research...
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