not the mental capacity to withstand the charges and punishments against them. When it comes to the juvenile justice system there have been studies that show that juveniles are more willing to follow the orders of a probation and parole officer more than an adult who sees a probation officer.
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and Treatment There are many community-based treatment efforts that the courts can implement into a juveniles punishment rather than to incarcerate. A few of these community-based treatments are: House arrest, residential programs, and balanced probation. House arrest is conducted through an electronic GPS monitoring system that uses an ankle bracelet to send signals directly to the police department. Individuals offered this form of punishment are forced to remain within a specified range of the
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) which she was prescribed antidepressants. Ms Lee also resided in transitional housing which she would present to her probation officer for random urine drug screens. Over the month Ms. Lee was able to obtain gainful employment, stable housing and regain custody of her children. However, Ms. Lee violated her probation after testing positive on a random urine drug screen (Geyer, 2009). The purpose of this paper is to discuss treatment outcomes models: recidivism model
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In the United States corrections system, there are many different forms of punishment that help ensure the safety of all citizens. The main objectives of those types of punishments are to create justice and ensure that the offender who committed a crime will be punished for their wrongdoing. In fact, for many centuries, governments have found ways to remove and punish criminals with the purpose of protecting the citizens in this country. Many punishments in those centuries were cruel, violent, and
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A World Apart A World Apart Farrah Anglada-Lauer Axia College of University of Phoenix 2 The first penitentiary was opened in a wing of the Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Jail in 1790. This penitentiary operated with the belief that silence and labor was the appropriate rehabilitation tactic. “A system of behavior modification was introduced in the Walnut Street Prison, the system of secondary reinforcement so widely used in today's prisons. Each prisoner was given fair pay for his/her labor
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In the U.S. there is an overcrowding of inmates in our prisons and part of that reason results from the lack of probation and proper treatments. The biggest percentage of the prison population lies with the drug addicted and mentally ill/elderly. To fix this issue we can go about it in a few different ways, in the end it will take a variety of angles and time to eradicate the issue all together. The central theme of this issue begins when we first understand that in order to fix this issue changes
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January 19th, 2015 Karen Miner Personal Interview Paper This is a personal interview that I conducted with a woman whom is a case manager for a non-profit organization, called Health Right 360. Carla Johnson works exclusively with women on probation that have been mandated to participate in the (AB) 109 Bill. Miss Johnson shared with me what a day consists of working with these women The interview started with Carla sharing information regarding this program, how it came to exist and its impact
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Prison Environment Prison Environment The prison environment is confined, cramped, and really dangerous. There are certain codes that the majority of the prisoners go by in prison. You have prison codes, or rules, and inmate codes, rules that they must go by. If an inmate breaks the prison rules then the person who broke the rules will be properly reprimanded. If an inmate breaks the codes set up by other inmates then they can be subject to retaliation from other inmates, which can consist
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vote it may have an impact on the election. Prisoners want the chance to vote. As of February 2011 the United States was in the lead of number of prisoners with 2,019,234. Prisoners do not have a say in the government. In New York people who are on parole cannot vote. As of 2004 thirty-five states forbid people who have just been released from prison to vote. In the constitution it states everyone is given the right to vote. Amendment 15 is the voting rights act. In the first section of this amendment
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interesting article titled, "Stopping the Revolving Door: Reform of Community Corrections in Wisconsin" by Kate Lind. She states that, "Wisconsin’s criminal justice system is marked by a pronounced cycle of crime followed by incarceration followed by parole followed by repeated crime. Several statistics provide evidence of the revolving-door nature of the criminal justice system. In Wisconsin, 38.2% of offenders released from incarceration are convicted of a fresh crime within three years." In my opinion
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