Crime Causation and Diversion paper Marquita Shelton CJA/374 Anthony McBride December 14, 2015 University of Phoenix Crime Causation and Diversion Paper In this paper will compare juvenile diversion and intervention programs operating in the state of Colorado and how they work to reduce crime. Included will be an analysis of the relationship between the premise of each program, their goals, and the major cause for juvenile delinquent behaviors. Each program will
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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
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The Federal Prison Industries (FPI) was incorporated in 1934 (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). It is important to define what the FPI actually is. According to Schmalleger & Smykla (2015), the Federal Prison Industries was a federal program and self-supporting corporation that paid inmates to produce products. Not only did the FPI aid the US during World War II by producing military supplies but it also trained inmates to pursue jobs in defense industries upon prison release (Schmalleger & Smykla
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Tomas Gonzalez CJA / 394 February 4, 2014 Alfredo Cooke Corrections Trend Evaluation In this paper I will evaluate the past, present and future trends pertaining to the development and operation of institutional and community based correction. As part of the evaluation I will identify and analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators today. I will also identify and analyze the role/issue of alternate correction systems as a developing
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Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model, integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion ("front-end") with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the second model, some states have instituted programs in which correctional officials may direct already sentenced offenders into alternative
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the convicted persons to test their ability and fulfill the legal and moral standards without diminishing their social integrity and disfigurement. Probation has been developed as a community-based correctional sanction to reduce the probationers’ recidivism level through the community notification orders and community participation process. The period of probation following in a conviction will allows the Dan and Lindsay to re-establish the law-abiding roles and reformation under the formal supervision
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Criminal Case Scenario and Assessment Tools Name of Student Institution affiliation Criminal Case Scenario and Assessment Tools Case Scenario of Mary and Richard Mary is a third-born in a family of three siblings. Richard, her husband understands that Mary is easily irritable and can get angry expressing her temper in very regrettable ways and so he tries to live with in such a way that she does not make her angry. The origin of Mary’s unexplained anger can be traced back to her childhood
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Historically, by the 18th century, children below the age of 7 were considered to be incapable of criminal intent and were presumed exempt from punishment. With a drastic rise in juvenile delinquency, by the 19th-century there was creation of the juvenile court in the U.S. which had its roots from a 16th-century European educational reform movement (Bilchik 1999). The reformers who supported these institutions aimed at protecting these juvenile offenders by separating from adult offenders. They also
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emphasis on one component as the foundation of the problem: mental illness. Focusing soley on psychiatric services inadequately tie in with the policy goal of reducing recidivism. The validity of mental illness being linked t criminal behavior points towards moderated arbitration techniques and the effect of mental illness on other “recidivism” is to some extent interceded by system impartiality and shame. The recognition of mental illness being tied to offenders been identified as a feasible tool to decrease
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along with juvenile detention centers. First off, jails and prisons may sound a lot alike but These two types of reform measures are ones I believe to be some of the most effective when it comes to preventing an inmate from becoming part of the recidivism percentile. Now, even though jails hold inmates for shorter amounts of time that doesn’t necessarily mean that the time they’ve served there hadn’t impacted their lives. Prisons on the other hand are the ones I would like to think have a greater
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