Compulsory community service is an effective way to deal with young offenders when they commit the property crimes How much more of taxpayers must spend to make these young teenager's lives such that they can become model citizens when they returned to the society. ... Thus, the compulsory community service is the most economical, humanely and effective way to deal with young offenders when they commit the property crimes. 2 The jail penalty is a harsh punishment in mentally and physically way for the youth. ... Community service sentence provided free labor for public works...

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Ex-offenders must find a residence, purchase life's necessities, and locate a job. ... I discovered that the recidivism rate was greatly affecting many communities and families and that scholars knew the solutions, but our policies did not reflect what these scholars deemed would be effective. ... What I discovered throughout my research is that there are more effective ways of supervising ex-offenders and reintegrating them into the community. Prison activities and post prison activities need to be linked, along with the use of transitional programs that would help ex-prisoners obtain jo...

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Variations of intensive supervision can make it difficult to determine if it is effective way of reducing recidivism. ... Over the years boot camps have shown that they alone do not reduce recidivism, so many states have developed and utilized wilderness survival programs that teach the group how to problem solve and work out their problems rather then fighting; and job corps, which teaches a young offender a productive job skill and helps them obtain their GED. ... Staff members need to have competitive wages, with salary increases based on job performances, and benefits. ... Halfway hou...

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Is it effective in deterring crime, primarily murders? ... The death penalty is not an effective way to deter crime. ... Many people believe that the death penalty isn't an effective way to deter crime. ... This fact also forbids the death penalty from being 100% effective. ... The death penalty is not an effective way to deter crime. ...

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Inmates are released having received little or no job training. After being released, finding a job that will support him or her becomes a task. Many, unable to find jobs and barred by law from living in public housing, quickly return to crime. ... Even though we may not be able to rid society of these negative aspects we need to stress the importance of effective rehabilitation programs during incarceration so the inmates, upon release, will be able to deal with these and other elements. ...

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An important reason for this trend is that probation is less expensive and seems to be more effective for many offenders. ... Furthermore, effective rehabilitation and education programs are not always available in institutions. ... The more people who are involved in resolving an issue, the more effective it will be. ... The job objective for a probation officer with the City of Little Rock is to design and monitor corrective action plans and programs for Criminal Court probationers and to provide court security. The essential job functions are: 1. ...

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To take a stand on such a subject is a difficult job. ... The final question I asked on the survey was would it be more cost effective to put convicted criminals deserving the death penalty to death rather then let them sit on death row. As nine of the ten said that killing off these criminals would be more cost effective the truth is just the opposite. ...

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Rideau believes that as a community it is more effective to work to prevent criminal acts in the first place than getting tough on crime and violence. ... The treatment that these criminals really need is getting educated, having a job, a stable home and family that help them connect to the society instead of severe punishment and treatment from prisons that ban and isolate them from the rest of the world. ... Part of the reason that the prison system fail to be effective today is because politicians are not willing to do something effective that are not quick and easy in today's governi...

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The closed security facility is surrounded by double layered fencing with razor sharp wire and several guard towers scatter across the campus. Inmates can leave the cells to work or to get exercise in the yard. All of these physical aspects of the prison are designed to keep inmates secure in the pr...

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These arguments will prove that the Probation Service is not a soft option' for offenders, but rather an effective alternative for sentencers, who understand that custody is not the only, or always the most effective, form of punishment. ... It operates within the Governments Correctional Policy Framework, contributing primarily to the Home Office Aim 3, to ensure the effective delivery of justice, through efficient investigation, detection, prosecution and court procedures. To minimise the threat to, and intimidation of witnesses and to engage with and support victims and the Home Off...

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In our correctional system, this type of counseling exists, but is it effective? ... For instance, we could give them a chance to acquire job skills; which will improve the chances that inmates will become productive citizens upon release. ... For instance, we could give them a chance to acquire job skills; which will improve the chances that inmates will become productive citizens upon release. ... The reason behind this thinking is that prisons supply thousands of jobs to the economy. ... Improvements in job training, counseling, and halfway houses for rehabilitation must be brought to the ...

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The government has taken it into it's hands to control an aspect of it's citizens lives that it has no right encroaching on, and it's doing a very poor job of it. ... This is an incredulous amount to spend on a project that has shown absolutely no sign of being effective. ... They will have to ignore the fact that the Drug War has been one of the most costly, and least effective programs in our countries history. ...

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The rehabilitation of criminals is not the correct way to go about things because when this is done doctors hope that therapy was effective and they hope that the criminal won't commit any crimes again. ... Lately America hasn't been doing such a good job at punishing criminals. ...

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The causes of prison overcrowding are not restricted to the confines of criminal justice but stretch to other aspects of authorities including social well-being plans, access to healthcare, education, and job opportunities. ... Will enables the growth of theoretical agenda that can provide the groundwork of implementing strategies, effective in addressing the issue of overcrowding systematically. ...

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These hit-and-run jobs give a successful felon more and more confidence as the severity of his crimes rise. ... The use of capital punishment is very effective in the act of saving the lives of potential victims. ...

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They are given practical and effective tools to take charge of their lives and transform their futures (Lionheart, 2008). ... They take on the risks and must have the confidence that the rehabilitation programs are effective in order to keep the funds coming in. ... As a result, more money can be spent on education, job training, drug treatment, anger management and other programs. ...

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One example is how an inmate reveals that they do not receive any compensation for the job they perform in the program. ... The hypothesis that the program would be effective in controlling delinquency did not have a scientific basis. ... If there were suddenly no crime then the prison and legal systems would cease to exist, thereby eliminating many jobs in the process. ...

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In some of the 57 countries, capital punishment is only banned for ordinary crimes and still effective for military crimes or crimes committed in exceptional circumstances such as wartime (Doan, 2). ... The murderers would do such jobs as clear roadway paths and clean up garbage. ... If the death penalty is not an effective way to deter crime, then what is? ... This was effective because if you think about it, if I was to rob a store, first I would look to see if any police officers were around. ...

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While most correctional systems have implemented objective classification systems that have become quite effective in identifying inmates for the general prison population, less attention has been given to accurately classifying inmates who pose a higher risk and may require special management within the prison setting. ... Selling drugs is addictive also because when drug dealers get out of jail they cannot find a job so they return to the streets and to the same job t...

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The juvenile justice system does a good job of preventing healthy developmental growth of condemned youth by exposing them to more potential violence with the waiver of being tried as an adult. ... Research shows that their approach to juvenile rehabilitation is scientifically proven to be effective in youth behavior. ...

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Prison has never been an effective measure of crime control. ... Prisons would be doing a great job if prisoners were ready to get into the work world, get a stable job, and start contributing to society. ...

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The criminal justice system clearly is not perfect. There are many critical issues that it is facing. I am going to focus on four of these critical issues. The four issues that I have chosen to focus on are: racial profiling, corruption of police officers, the bail system, and the rehabilitation of ...

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There are some alternatives to penitentiaries, like electronic monitoring, probation, and hard labor, but more research needs to be done to determine if this is effective or not. ... To try to increase rehabilitation, we should teach them job skills; that will improve the chances that inmates can become productive citizens once released. ... Citizens and prison systems must utilize improvements to job training, counseling, and halfway houses to increase rehabilitation. ...

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The focus of this paper is to draw the focus of how we live in a society where it seems as though the children of tomorrow are left behind your children. This paper brings to light how I feel towards our society's lack of understanding these youths and I chose this topic through my own siblings struggles with the norms of society. This paper offers many varieties and ways in which the use of token economy is very beneficial to the development of the minds of these delinquents when have abandoned, because the act outside the confines of societies rules and regulations. This paper focusses ...

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Furthermore, the purpose of punishment in Colonial America was for retribution; they considered punishment of crime to be necessary, whether or not it was effective, because it was morally right and deserved. ... The book did a nice job exemplifying how individuals who grew up in poverty may be different from those who grew up in an affluent environment or how individuals who dropped out of school may behave differently than those who excelled in school (Blomberg &Lucken;, 2011, p.102). ...

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