...An Analysis of “Hearts and Hands” I. Introduction By analyzing the irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing embodied in O • Henry’s short story —“Hearts and Hands”, we can reach a thorough understanding of the short story. II. Support A. O•Henry uses irony to carve the characteristics of Miss Fairchild. 1. Miss Fairchild’s changing facial expressions when she saw the handcuff bound at the wrist of Mr. Easton shows reveals that she is a vainglorious person. 2. Miss Fairchild did not have any doubt when the roughly dressed man told her that Mr. Easton was taking him to the Leavenworth prison. It reveals that Miss Fairchild tended to judge people by their appearance and outfits. 3. Miss Fairchild has a fair name and face, but her heart is not that fair. When her father was ill, she did not go home to take care of her father instead of continuing her journey. B. O • Henry uses irony to make this story more dramatic and sarcastic. 1. When Mr. Easton said, “My butterfly days are over”, he hinted that he is put in prison later and not being free while Miss Fairchild thought that he's talking about social days. 2. When Mr. Easton answered, “Yes, I must go on to Leavenworth.” he did mean he must go to the Leavenworth Prison and stay there while Miss Fairchild thought that he just take prisoner to Leavenworth, as a marshal. 3. When Mr. Easton said that tobacco is the one friend of the unfortunate...
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...Prison Overcrowding In today’s society, crime happens nearly every 5 seconds. Depending on the type of crime determines where an individual is placed either in jail or prison. This leads to an ongoing problem today, prison overcrowding. Prison overcrowding is when the demand for space in prisons in a jurisdiction exceeds the capacity for prisoners in the place. Prison Overcrowding has many dangers that can lead to major destruction to society and those captivated behind bars The dangers of overcrowded prison, is that it can become very toxic for both prisoners and guards. Overcrowded conditions contribute to stronger inmate misconduct, more competition for prison services such as educational or vocational training programs and a lack...
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..."Summary: Going Home is about an elderly man, who sits on a bus going from New York to Florida with a group of young people. They find him strange, and one of them decides to talk to him to investigate deeper. They find out that he has been in prison for four years, and is now heading back home to see if his wife has found someone else, or want him back. While in prison, the elder man had written to her, telling her that he was going to stay for a long time, and if she couldn’t stand that, she was free to forget him and find someone else. As he found out that he was going to be released, he wrote to her again, telling her that if she had found someone else, that was fine, but if she wanted him back, she could hang a handkerchief on a tree in the city entrance. As they approach the city, they see that there is hanging many handkerchiefs on the tree, and the young people start cheering loudly. * Try not to use too many details from the text – keep it simple. * Complete the story * Remember the most important part of the story – the punch-line * “It results in…” * “It all ends in…” * “All in all it ends with…” Character descriptions: Vingo is described as a worn out person, with threadbare clothes. It is told that he is an ex-marine, who has spent the past four years in jail. He is described as a shy person, with dust in his face, which makes him look older than he probably is. This makes the girls wonder who he might be, as well as his story. The...
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...Throughout the decades, studies have been conducted to address the question of whether prisons work. The prison is a system used by the State to punish criminals, which is justified by the concept of retributivism (proportional punishment) and crime reduction (Cavadino & Dignan 2007, p36; Pollock 2005, pp3-4). According to the actuarial perspective (Feeley & Simon 1992), prison works in certain circumstances, as it efficiently minimises risks to society by confining individuals of dangerous population for the purpose of social control. However, this risk-focused view of prison’s functionality is limited, as it lacks understanding of the imprisonment of vulnerable groups, since Actuarialism overlooks the cultural factors outside risk-calculations....
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...who are in prison and could be proven innocent with DNA testing. This project helps everyone in the United States that has been wrongly accused. There are many cases that show how the innocence project is achieving their goal. One of these cases is David Johns Bryson case. On September 23, 1982 a woman was leveeing work to her car in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When she reached her car she was assaulted by a man and she was forced into the passenger sat of the car he then sat in the driver seat and drove off. He was beating her as he was driving and forced her to do oral sex on him. Eventually he stopped the car tore the women’s shirt and blindfolded her with it. The man then raped her vaginally and anally. She then bit the attacker’s penis, causing him to scream. She jumped from the car and ran to a nearby home, where she ran to a nearby home and called the police. On that night David Johns Bryson went to the hospital because of an injury to his penis. After his visited...
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...over Community vs Institutional Corrections It is the first day of break and Jimmy wants to have a good time with his friends. Long story short, Jimmy decided to drive home drunk and crashed into another car. The driver of the other car passed away.What kind of punishment should Jimmy receive? It seems fair for him to spend time in prison. Should he see probation after the jail time? How much? This scenario helps introduce the dilemma we have today as a society about institutional vs. community corrections. Punishment for crime has always been an issue for debate. With the growth of the American colonies, the colonists needed a system of punishment for lawbreakers. Many methods developed in Europe meant to bring shame to those offenders were adopted. Around this time, the world saw a change in punishment ideology; some began to stress that humans are not perfect and make mistakes. Thus, there should be more reform as well as punish. In 1682, William Penn made a push for change. He limited the death penalty to cases of murder only and called for fines and imprisonment for most offenses. This is widely considered the beginnings of the prison system in the U.S. He also helped start the creation of jails, like the High Street Jail. The first federal prisons were established in 1891. Before this date, prisons were organized by states and territories. The establishment of parole and probation, or community corrections, began in the 1870s. There has always been and most likely...
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...Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Juvenile Crime Kalah Jiggetts Criminal Justice Abstract This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge-assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zip codes—allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a lower cost to the government per comparable individual released. Cost- benefit analysis implies that the short-run savings offered by for-profit over nonprofit management are negated in the long run due to increased recidivism rates, even if one measures the benefits of reducing criminal activity as only the avoided costs of additional confinement. Since its beginnings in the mid-1980s, prison privatization in the United States has provoked several rounds of congressional hearings and hundreds of articles discussing its philosophical, organizational, economic, and legal implications...
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...Hate Crime Analysis According to "The United States Department of Justice" (2014), “Hate crime is the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious, sexual orientation, or disability” (para. 3). This hate crime analysis will provide a brief description as to what specific factors serve as a basis for victimization. Specific case examples and restorative justice models will be assessed. Benefits and challenges of the use of restorative justice will be discussed, and contemporary research instruments to measure the victimization of gays and lesbians will be the focus. Lastly, the identification of the criminological theory that explains the victimization of the chosen group. Over the years, dominant groups, and communities with similar cultures and beliefs have asserted their prejudices on other groups believing differently. Many times these assertions or acts of power similarly resemble the power-control and gender-based theories. Groups that assert power or control over individuals by intimidation or violence can be known labeled as hate groups. The last few decades have brought about a voice for civil rights, a fight for women’s rights, and a surge of protests for gay and lesbian rights. These protests further fuel a loathing and hostility by these hate groups. Victimization Factors The victimization of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are the focus of this analysis. Sexual orientation...
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...purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of probation and prison programs and amenities Introduction Classification plays a crucial role in parole and the probation process by deciding the type of rehabilitative strategy that the offender has to adapt to in the process of correction. Classification systems were utilized after sentencing in order to appropriately determine and plan the offender’s treatment and management. This paper will analyze a probation case study, ISP programs, and prison programs and amenities. Review of Kris’ file At the age of 13 years, Kris was given probation because of being involved in a battery case. He was arrested for trespassing during his juvenile probation hence accorded additional time in probation as a consequence of his actions. He is currently 25 years old and has completed his probation successfully. He however has a recent adult conviction for which he is being sentenced. My findings equate to Robert’s findings which elaborate that parole boards determine when an offender is rehabilitated from crime and ready to rejoin liberal society. Our findings additionally agree on the fact that it is the work of supervising officers to advice parolees and probationers besides ensuring that the recommended interventions are being undertaken. The role of classification rested on particular crucial modes amidst punishment and crime in addition to shifting attention from the offender to the offense. Classification also formulated...
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...if not a crisis, in the nation’s prisons and jails. Governments are incarcerating more criminals, but they have recently become more uptight to the idea of spending sufficient tax dollars for new prisons to house the criminals. The prison system is turning into a living nightmare; overcrowding, lawsuits, and court orders are flooding in at unprecedented rates. With taxpayers demanding that criminals be put in prison and kept in longer, there seems to be no choice but to increase the capacity of the prison system. But with pressure to cut government...
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...2013 - 2014 [pic] [pic] |Activity Booklet – Assignment 1 | Student: Jordan Stephens | [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] LO1.1 - Know the different levels of government in the UK P1 - Describe the following bodies involved in governance. Levels of government and their responsibilities: ▪ European Parliament, The European Parliament handles decisions, which would affect the countries, which are members of the EU; these issues include the environment, equal opportunities, transport, consumer rights, movement of the workers and goods, etc. Currently there are 72 members of the UK that get directly elected to become part of the European Parliament and their decisions on the issues that come up within the EU will affect all the 27 members states that are part of the EU if the decision is passed by the EU. Some of these decisions also affect issues involving the public services of the member states of the EU, which could cause a lot of problems if they make a wrong decision since they would have a large uproar on their hands. ▪ Central government, The central government is the main layer of government that operates across the whole of the country; the central government is always located in the centre of the country in that country’s capital city and it handles very specific responsibilities that no other group or government can carry out. Some of these responsibilities...
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...Prison Gangs Prison Gangs According to (Wikipedia) a prison gang is a term used to identify any type of gang activity in prisons and correctional facilities. The difference between prison gangs and street gangs has become unclear because gang members are in and out of the prison system according to the (Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2005). Prison gangs offer more than just simple protection for the members in prison; many prison gangs are responsible for drug, tobacco and other contraband handling. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate other inmates and bribe or intimidate prison staff. Prison gangs are a large influence of organized crime. Prison gangs are also known for laundering money from outside gangs while in prison. The forming of a prison gang is prohibited however; prison gangs are on a rise and without regard of the law prohibiting them. Many of the gang members are already in prison serving very long sentences; when another member is sentence they link up and look out for one another. There are multiple prison gangs in America such as the Aryan Brotherhood, the Nazi Low-riders, La Eme, those are just a few. (American Prison Gangs by Sharon White) According to this article prison gangs are in the Federal prison system and 32 state jurisdictions. There are 29 able to be identified and the prison guards know the member by names. Prison officials have identified 114...
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...And even though America has the highest incarceration rate, crime still has not been eliminated or been deterred. In fact, the recidivism rates are high within the U.S so what psychological impact does incarceration have on prisoners and their families? The article, Children of incarcerated mothers, gives great information on the psychological effects of children that mothers are in prison. Children whose mothers are in prison are among the riskiest of the high...
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...Prison Violent Misconduct Sylwia Chamot April 20th, 2011 Dr. Hassett- Walker Senior Seminar CJ 4600, Section 02 Spring Semester 2011 Incarceration rates rose to unprecedented levels in the history of the U.S.’s imprisonment. Therefore, concern about social control of the incarcerated, that is, prisoners’ behavior, has increased. High inmate disciplinary infractions, especially violent infractions, are a threat to the safety of prison, of correctional staff, and of other inmates. Nevertheless, the issue of discipline in prison is important from an economic perspective, because an estimated average cost per infraction at a medium security prison is $970 (Jiang & Fisher-Giorlando, 2002). For these reasons, Jiang & Fisher- Giorlando conducted a research to help explain violent incidents, incidents against correctional staff and incidents against other inmates in prison. Identifying the risk factors of inmates to commit violent acts of misconduct is of great importance to prison administration. This type of research can assist in the classification process of inmates entering institutions as well as the ongoing classification adjustments of inmates already in custody. This study will identify and investigate factors for violent institutional misconduct. These factors include; however, are not limited to race...
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...Analysis of “Why Prisons Don’t Work” An article written by Wibert Rideau titled “Why Prisons Don’t Work”, published in Time Magazine on March 21, 1994, was written by a man who was sentenced to die in prison. He was accused of murdering a white person in Lousiana in 1962, long before the civil rights movement really took hold. He was in prison for 44 years by the time he walked a free man. The same system of justice used in 1964 is still the same system we use today, and the only difference is that there are far many more people in prison today than ever. We should all wonder how many Wibert Rideaus are sitting in cells, in prisons, throughout America today. Let his article be a wake up call that many people are wrongfully convicted every day in the United States. The ethos of Mr. Rideau is of a very high caliber for more than one reason. The first reason is that he was in prison 44 years and strives to educate the public on why prisons don’t work. He could be home, angry and licking his wounds and yet he tells his story in an effort to use his experience for positive change. The second reason for ethos is that he is a persuasive writer whose intelligence and use of language is excellent. Third, he is committed to using the remainder of his life to do what can be done to change prison systems and punishment in America by giving us an inside view. Fourth, he has come such a long way in building a memorable career for himself after being a convicted felon and...
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