...thinking of prisoners as something very external to society???? after all there are literal walls between them and society walls capped with razor wire and watched over by people with guns but we have to stop. So how large of a problem is mass imprisonment really? well clearly a really large one And although many believe that mass incarceration would reduce if we focus more on reform proposals that focus exclusively on drug and other nonviolent crimes the prison population forecaster website shows that even if every person in state or federal prison for a drug offense were released today, mass incarceration would persist. so let’s address it from another angle. Violent Crimes Studies have shown Long prison sentence have helped decrease crime in well known violent criminal neighborhoods but the effects on crime is still comparatively minimum. Solitary confinement Solitary confinement has shown to increase stability and violence in inmates, and is considered by international law to be torture, but in the US, it’s not...
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...nature and nurture. Lots of people believe nature plays the larger part. A person’s genes can determine whether a person is predisposed to a disease or illness for example people who are born with genetic disorder such as Down syndrome have trouble with information processing. Their mental hardware, which are cognitive structures including different memories where information is stored, and their mental software, which are organized sets of cognitive processes that enable people to complete specific takes like reading sentences, playing video games, or hitting a baseball. These things will ultimately effect the way they grow up and the way they see and do things. A person who is affected with those types of diseases shows how nature can directly effect the development of an individual. A new technique called developmental genetic analysis is a procedure that examines the effects of genes throughout a person’s life. The technique concluded that a person’s intelligence is due about 50% to the genes they are born with. Furthermore, the nature debate is credible because of the genetic factors that support how people’s personalities and appearance develops, yet the nurture of a person ultimately overshadows the nature debate because...
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...important part for him is, that he can’t show any kind of weakness,(p. 2, l.25-26) and even though he feels bad about hurting Simpson,(p. 3, l. 43-44) he continues because his reputation and leader role can’t get ruined. The narrators “friends” I would prefer to call minions. They obey all the things he say, and does what he tells them to. For example on page three line 36 when the narrator demands Morgan to give him a cigarette, he finds one right away, sticks it into his mouth and lights it up without any hesitation. The father on the other hand, isn’t under the narrator’s control. He wants him to be a normal boy, who can engage in the social life among other people. He even pays off Simpson’s parents so they won’t tell the police about what happened. At the confrontation between the two, you can see right through their relationship. They seem to love each other, but the way the narrator’s father deals with the problem, doesn’t have the requested effect....
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...living conditions and a negative home life. Some behavioral issues are a direct cause of mental health problems, but for this study, we will not look at the mental health issues that cause behavior issues. A growing body of research has examined the cause of youth violence, among peers and parental relationships. The world we are living in today is full of violent images; from video games to movies, even much of today’s music can promote a violent message. There are other external influences that can also influence many children’s behaviors; such as impoverishment, inferior living conditions, inadequate housing, which often leads to illicit activities; such as drug and alcohol abuse and other criminal activities. In this research study, we will try to answer several questions the effects of violent images, or video games may have on our youth today. We will also examine if coming from a broken home has any direct correlation on the behavior of the child or children? This paper will examine several studies on this subject in the hopes of discovering the possible solutions to the questions raised in this paper. * Do violent images, video games, etc. influence children’s behavior? * Does coming from a broken, or abusive home, etc. influence children’s behavior? * Do children raised in a typical two parent household have an advantage over those raised in single family households? * Can coming from an urban area influence bad behavior in children? In the first study...
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...behavior Criminal behavior is a behavior in which the offender commits an offense that has been deemed as being unlawful act and punishable by the government and usually it is against individuals or property. Criminal behavior is seen as being prohibition or possession that constitutes a menace against the general public or society. In hope of confining and understanding criminal behavior researcher begin to study the brain of violent crime and compare their findings to the brain imaging “normal” individual. Through doing this they came up a new field of study called neurocriminology. Adrian Raine has studied the brain image of murders, violent criminals and psychopaths and from this research, he is convinced that there is a social and environmental cause to violent behavior. Although he is also convinced there exist a biology side of this type of behavior (npr.org, 2013). Believing that just as it is a biological reason for schizophrenia and anxiety disorders and depression and there exist biological recidivists violent offending. Raine re-visioning of violent criminals would hypothetically be of help how we approach crime prevention and rehabilitation. His question of if there had been a difficult birth or you had been exposed to toxins and you...
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...Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behavior Offender Assessment Introduction The problem of human violence has been major concern within the literature of psychology. The field of psychology concentrates on individual’s behavior and characteristics to determine how they will interact with their social surroundings to develop a violent event (Farrington et al, 2015). Studies in psychology have put a stress on assessing the mental processes behind what drives a person’s tendency to commit a crime instead of focusing on possible biological reasons for violence. The studies in psychology are usually concerned in determining the links between personality, intelligence, learning and aggressive behavior of criminals. There are several psychological...
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...When Kids Kill Recently the number of murders committed by children increased dramatically. This issue is spreading at a fast rate and is touching families, friends and civilians. Children are becoming more sophisticated and are dealing with new, bigger problems at a younger age. Combined with a violent surrounding, dealing with these problems may cause a more disturbed and brutal “solution” that will be executed by the child. Nothing still shocks as much as a child killing an innocent person or even a parent. Dealing with these children is another problem. Should they be treated as adults or as normal kids and just blame their acts on a childish explanation? With such a serious and alarming concern, an effective solution is desperately required. A child must be taught what’s good and what’s bad. In these conditions, it is best to put these children in a non-violent juvenile prison where they will face a rehabilitation that will hopefully prevent the recurrence of similar future crimes. To begin with, there are several reasons that push children to commit such crimes. According to Heide (2009) a child usually has a tremendous difficulty in accepting that his actions lead to an irreversible result. Many factors may come into place that will cause such behaviors. The psychological side is a major reason in this issue. Children will become dangerous and will most likely commit crimes when they experience difficult and hard conditions in their home...
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...the poem seems to take a more violent turn which is evident through Roethke’s diction. The melodic rhythm and title, “My Papa’s Waltz,” suggest a dance between father and son which could serve as both a literal dance and a dance of life. Roethke’s first stanza acknowledges the father’s drinking habits and the effects that they have on his son. Because Roethke states that “the whiskey on [the father’s] breath could make a small boy dizzy,” readers become aware of the state of drunkenness...
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...Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology. Volume 10 Number 1, January 2013. 138 Effects of Family Breakup on Children: A Study in Khulna City Shirina Aktar* Abstract: When a family breaks up, it is usually difficult for everyone in the family to cope with the situation; however, children are often the worst victims of family breakup. There are powerful reasons to be alarmed about the impacts of family breakup on children. They feel insecure, depressed and helpless when they see their family break apart. The present study aims at identifying the effects of family breakup on children. The purposively chosen research site was the city of Khulna in Bangladesh. Using a survey method, data were collected from seventy children. After analyzing the data collected from the field survey, this report concludes that children of the broken families are particularly vulnerable and they need special care for their mental, psychological and physical development. After presenting the main findings in a descriptive fashion, the article provides a set of recommendations that will support children in the broken families. Introduction Background of the Study Family is the smallest, most sensitive and important social system which is furnished and facilitated by a society as a larger social system. Marriage is also another small social system which is the foundation of a family. The dissolution of marriage contracted between men and women by the judgment of a court or by an act of the legislature is called...
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...alcohol by men in a marital relationship increase the chance of divorce? Kyle Daya HHS4U1-01 Ms. D’Souza June 13 2014 The abuse of drugs and alcohol can affect many people. More often than not, it creates a negative impact. An example of this is the effect it has on married couples and their families. The abuse of drugs and alcohol by men in a marital relationship increase the chance of divorce. The reason for this is because the drugs and alcohol can influence the husband to engage in violent activities. Secondly, the relationship between the husband and the wife will fade due to the abuse of illegal substances and alcohol. Lastly, the abuse of drugs and alcohol will influence the children to imitate the husband’s actions. This topic is significant to study because the rate of divorce has been rapidly increasing over the past years and drugs as well as alcohol abuse is one of the common causes of divorce and has become a big issue in today’s society. This is why the abuse of drugs and alcohol by men in a marital relationship increase the chance of divorce. A man who abuses drugs and alcohol is very capable of engaging in dangerous activities. Drugs and alcohol can sometimes influence men to become violent and act maliciously. The reason for men to use drugs or become an alcoholic is often depression. One who is in a state of depression and consumers drugs and alcohol can leave them into an even deeper state of depression. When a husband is in this state, one...
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...Genetic Explanation of Aggression: Aggression is known to be influenced by genetics. Everyone inherits certain genes from their biological parents, these express as specific traits and characteristics. This includes everything from your eye colour, susceptibility to certain diseases, and aggressive tendencies. Some psychologists even believe there is a specific aggressive gene. Genetics are biological, however the explanation does acknowledge the interplay between nature and nurture, a hard and soft approach to determinism. We cannot separate genetics from the environment as it is a crucial part of evolution. Experiments have been conducted on mice whereby they have altered the gene receptor for the neuro-transmitter serotonin. They ‘knocked out’ the gene in the mice. With this a ‘knockout mouse’ was created and put in a cage for 2 weeks to establish its territory. Later when an intruder mouse was introduced, the knockout mice were found to be significantly more aggressive than another control group. This suggests this gene receptor is responsible for the aggression As this was completed in a scientific, lab environment, the results are highly reliable. However there are difficulties generalising from animal experiments to human behaviour. Humans have rational thinking and mice do not. The animal ethics guidelines state that the ends must justify the means. Later research tested rats in the same way, and they found humans don’t have the same gene. Therefore, the...
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...Violent Media and Violent Behavior Paula M. Méndez, Megan Roy Miosotis Nieves University of Phoenix BCOM/275 July 23, 2013 Javier Maury-Ortiz Pros and supporting evidence There have been studies to prove that violent movies, games, and television shows can influence violent behavior. Multiple cases have shown that individuals playing video games, especially violent ones, can lead to aggression. Children who tend to play these types of games lose control rather easily, they tend to kick the controller against the floor or throw other various objects when enraged. They also show their frustration by using profanity or lashing out towards others playing the game with them or towards the game itself. Dr. Jordan Grafman at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke conducted a study which showed adolescent boys that were exposed to violent games over a long period of time tended to show aggressive behavior, desensitization, and loss of empathy. Twenty-two boys were chosen to view short clips that show different range of violent from low, mild, and moderate. The ones who were expose to more violent movies, videos, or television shows were the one who were had less empathy. Dr. Grafman concluded that those who were more desensitization were the most likely to have violent behavior and less empathy. There was another study done from 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide which was done by Craig Anderson a professor of psychology at Iowa...
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...funeral ceremony for him. People will always remember this great leader. His name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi was the leader of the national liberation movement and the Indian National Congress Party. He is the father of modern India. His “non-violence”(ahimsa) and philosophy affected the international movement of nationalists around the world. Elements of Gandhi's philosophy were rooted in the Indian religions of Jainism and Buddhism. The Acaranga Sutra, a Jainist text, describes the fundamental need for non-violence: “All beings are fond of life; they like pleasure and hate pain, shun destruction and like to live, they long to live. To all, life is dear” Gandhi strongly believed that if violence was used to deal with the issue between India and the Britain, the result would be more violence. Gandhi’s emotional speech concluded his principle that all violence was evil and could not be justified. When I was in elementary school, I have heard about a story about Gandhi. In the age of 15, Gandhi stole a small piece of gold from his brother’s bracelet. After that, Gandhi felt extremely guilty. Therefore, he wrote a repentance letter to his father. Gandhi thought his father would punish him heavily. However, his father forgave him. Actually, Gandhi’s father was very proud that Gandhi could admit his mistake bravely. Gandhi was deeply moved. This is the first lesson of Gandhi's life about “non-violence”. He believed that the power of trust and love are much better than scolding...
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...The Impact of Fatherless Children Alexander Ontiverios Essay Report The last several decades have seen an alarming trend of increasing father absence or fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is widely recognized as a contributing factor to a myriad of social maladies in the United States. Father absence has been a subject of heated debate and the center of countless surveys, focus groups and opinion polls. There are some who disagree as to exactly how culpable absent fathers are for many of the social ills we’re seeing in our society today, but there’s no denying it is a problem. This paper will endeavor to show that in spite of often heroic efforts by single mothers to rear their children as productive members of society, there is an overwhelming amount of data indicating fatherlessness as a significant factor of violent crime, educational under-achievement, high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), teenage pregnancy and behavioral disorders and it is vital that children have a father proactively involved in their lives wherever possible. Arguably the most desperate reason for fathers to engage in a positive way in their children’s lives is reflected in the statistics of violent crime. The young men of society today are growing up without fathers to guide them and teach them right from wrong. This has produced a generation of young men who are astonishingly angry. According to a report by Criminal Justice and Behavior, “Eighty percent of rapists motivated by...
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...Does Violence in Video Games Influence Negative Behavior? D`Mageo Dickerson University of Phoenix AADV155A84; ENG102 Becky Wilfahrt December 2, 2012 Terry Baker is 18 and addicted to video games, especially violent ones. He loves “ManHunt”, “Max Payne”, “Resident Evil 4”,”Grand Theft Auto”, “God of War”, ”50 Cent: Bulletproof”, “Crime Life: Gang Wars”, and “NARC”. He plays shooting games more than any other type of games. Terry plays at least four hours straight per day. He misses meals when he gets involved in a game he really likes. Terry’s life in the real world is not that pleasant. He hardly spends time with his friends and family. When he gets around to spending time with them, he only shares about an hour or only two of his time. On the other hand, there is Joey Lewis. Joey Lewis is 17, and does not have an addiction to video games. He plays more racing and sport games than violent games. He also plays the same games as Terry. Unlike Terry, Joey plays video games no more than two hours a day. He does not play them every day like Terry does. Joey’s real world life is enjoyable. He spends much of his time with family and friends. In today’s society, there are many children that play video games that contain so much violence, gun shooting, and aggressive behavior. Parents are not aware of the violence that most of the games that they buy their children have. Most children get really into their games and sometimes think that the game is a real life experience...
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