Specify the reasons for preventative detention and describe the forms of release from jail pending trial. Preventative detention is meant serve as a method of incapacitation, more specifically being selective incapacitation as it holds high-risk offenders incarcerated in preventative measures while awaiting trial. Two popular forms of release are bail and surety. Bail being a pledge of money of property as a promise to return to court for the criminal processing. Surety is much like bail but instead
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Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal Crime is something the public and criminal justice system has and always will have to deal with. The hardest part about the criminal justice system is determining sentences for the criminals and the crimes they have committed. The purpose of sentencing is to make the punishment harsh enough so the criminals will want to steer away from ever repeating the crime they committed (University of Phoenix, 2012). Sometime this can be hard because the criminals
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American Prison A prison is in place to confine and deprive people from their basic freedoms. A prison is an institution that is part of the criminal justice system that is imposed for the conviction of a crime. A criminal that is charged or going to be charged will be held in a prison if unable to come up with the money for bail. A criminal defendant is also placed in a prison if they are found guilty of a crime (Americanprisonsystem.com, 2009). Throughout this paper the history of a prison, the
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-Statement of who and where The Right to Education, Prison-University Partnerships, and Online Writing Pedagogy in the US is an article that focuses on whether or not prisoners should be able to have the opportunity to receive an education while they serve their sentence. It addresses the benefits, as well as some of the cons, that can develop from education rights; to the prisoners, as well as the community. The public and the educators are also addressed throughout this article. The controversy
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Privatization of Prisons Private Prison, Inc. Introduction America has been getting tougher on lawbreakers. This is something that the public long has been demanding. The problem it creates, however, is a shortage of prison capacity to hold the increased numbers of convicted criminals. This has led to: prison overcrowding, sometimes prompting court actions against penal systems; rapidly rising operational outlays; and taxpayer resistance to the cost of new prisons. A partial answer to the
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History of State and Federal Prisons Melissa Undisclosed Raymond Delaney Jr. CJS/230 May 11, 2012 University of Phoenix History of State and Federal Prisons The prison system today is run by both the State and Federal Government. The State and Federal Government has known to be a very strict authority that watches our prisons closely. The State and Federal Prison Systems have a lot of similarities with a few differences. Both of these systems are unique in their own kind of way. In this
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Keturah Muhammad Prison Privatization Prior to the 1980s, private prisons did not exist in the US. In the 1980s, as a result of the War on Drugs by the Reagan Administration, the number of people incarcerated rose. This created a demand for more prison space. The result brought up the development of privative and the for-profit prison industry. [1] In recent years, there has been debate over the privatization of prisons. Both publicly provided and publicly financed prisons operate under the supervision
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Discuss institutional explanations of aggression (24 marks) Since prison aggression has been on the rise psychologists have tried to explain why aggression occurs in institutions. Two models have been developed: importation and deprivation. They focus on whether aggression is due to the persons characteristics or the situation they are in. Zimbardos prison experiment has also helped to contribute to research into this. The importation model claims that those who engage in institutional violence
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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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prisoner living in your home with you and your family? This is exactly what would happen if the prison system in the United States were abolished. Although this article “Are Prisons Obsolete?” has many good points about why prisons should be abolished, I do believe that if you commit a crime you deserve to pay the price for it. If we don’t have a prison system where will all of the criminals go? Without a prison system there will be absolutely no structure in society, if we allow criminals to roam around
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