The person I decided to interview is a young woman by the name of Shaunna Beaudoin. She grew up in Brookton, Main and attends school at Husson University where she is pursuing her degree in criminal justice. She is currently a law officer in Wells, Maine and even though she is just starting out in this profession at the age of 21 she is certain that police work is her calling. When asked why she wanted to be in law enforcement she replied “well my family has been in law enforcement for the past three
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Counseling and Treatment Correctional counseling is a type of counseling that assists criminal offenders in dealing with specific problems their current personality structure lack, so they can make better decisions in the future. Correctional Counselors deal with specific life-adjustment situations, while trying to expand on the underneath "good" personality that already exists. In our correctional system, this type of counseling exists, but is it effective? With news flashes of violence daily
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Criminal Justice System Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction The criminal justice process is entirely of the whole process of arresting and punishing criminals or law violators. This process involves a number of processes that are followed in ensuring that due process is followed. Additionally, this process ensures that there is protection of the innocents, criminals or law breakers are fairly or justly treated, and ensuring that justice is practiced by agencies of law
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Communication CJA/304 Communication in criminal justice setting is one of the most important components. Communication in the criminal justice system consists of Verbal and nonverbal communication. Being able to know the difference into listening and hearing while performing any type of communication makes it easier to perform any type of task while on the line of duty. Communicating and listening make formal and informal channels of communication in a criminal justice organization easier to handle and
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Re-Entry and Its Effects: Institutional and Post Release Community Corrections, CRJ 341 Jonathan L. Kaiser Abstract Reentry is a challenge many offenders face once they are incarcerated and released into society. The term “reentry’” is a synonym for return and is defined as the act of going back to a prior place, location, situation or setting. Prison re-entry refers to the transition of offenders from prisons or jails back into the community. The concept of life in society is an important
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Judicial System ENG 122 July 22, 2013 Introduction: This paper is going to give a good insight into how American prisons have a disparity toward the minority population. Is this trend due to a higher rate of minority crimes or the manner in which the judicial system operates? The Judicial System has a major affect about the way they look at Minorities and the crimes that they commit, but is the Judicial System just being racist about the differences if they commit a crime and if Americans commit
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between the ages of 25-29 are incarcerated compared to one in 30 other men of the same age. Why? The purpose of this paper is to investigate how racial discrimination in the justice system still exists and how it correlates to the misconception that drug abuse and drug dealing activity is more prevalent among African American males in this age group. Another factor to be addressed is how society has victimized the black man in the “get tough on crime” and the “war on drug” movements. And finally
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Disparity and Discrimination Ilka McCoy CJS/221 November 02, 2015 Ben Harm Disparity and Discrimination Disparity in criminal justice means inequity of arrests and sentencing for certain groups of people based on race, religion, color or sexual preference; it almost always refers to racial and ethnic disparity. Racial disparity has been definitively verified, though it may not always be related to intentional discrimination but due to the impact of the media and social networks this seems
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The Impact on Society of the Incarceration of the Non-Violent Criminal. In this age of social media and advanced computer technology I find it to be an utter tragedy the amount of individual that are incarcerated for non-violent crimes. After all we have the knowledge and the resources to event a new cellar device almost every other month. We have drones to deliver package. Information can be sent at the speed of light from the United States to Europe. Yet in still we haven’t come up with
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Mass incarceration according to Michelle Alexander became the system that replaced Jim Crow and although her claim is a bit hyperbolic, but both do share some similarities. In a way, both were created through institutions trying to remove the rights of certain amount of black people, especially in the South. There are as many similarities as there are differences but mass incarceration was developed in a process rather than merely existing out of nowhere. Colorblindness comes from the mentality of
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