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    Being a Correctional Officer isn’t an easy task. Correctional officers risk their lives as soon as they get to their job‚ until they’re out. There’s a lot of negatives and positives to become a correctional officer and also not to. These are the steps to become one‚ you first need a high school diploma‚ go to college for another 5-10 years‚ and you also need a college degree. You have to be sure you want to be that because being and becoming one isn’t easy at all. Correctional officers keep

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    Outline the learning theory explanation of attachments. The learning theory proposes that attachment behaviours are learnt through the imitation of the attachment figures meaning they are not innate. One explanation of how this happens is through Classical Conditioning. In the Learning Theory Classical Conditioning is the forming of an attachment through association. The Learning Theory states that when a baby is born they naturally want food. When the mother feeds the baby it automatically associates

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    In the field of correctional psychology every detainee‚ prisoner or offender are offered the benefits of treatment programs offered or many are required to seek one or more of the services offered including assessments‚ crisis interventions‚ substance abuse treatment‚ or reentry

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    Outline and evaluate learning theory as an explanation of attachment. Classical conditioning - Before attachment is learned‚ the infant gains pleasure through being fed. Food is the unconditioned stimulus and pleasure is the unconditioned response. When the infant is being fed‚ the infant associates the person providing the food with the food. The primary caregiver is the neutral stimulus‚ which becomes associated with food (the unconditioned stimulus). When the attachment has been learned

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    The Impact of Juvenile Inmates’ Perceptions and Facility Characteristics on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities is written by Aaron Kupchik and R. Bradley Snyder. The significance of the problem the article focuses on is evidence of a third theoretic model in addition to the deprivation and importation theoretic models. The third model combines facility and individual variables that concentrate on the perception of the youth toward the facility’s rules and standards. The deprivation

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    Name: Kehinde Oguns Mat No: NS/MAT/09/1289 Assignment 1. Definition of A.I Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents “where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy‚ who coined the term in 1955‚ defines

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    Understanding the similarities of Strain Theory‚ & General Theory of Crime Angela Sampson # 2396467 Sociology 345: Social Control Professor: James Chriss Cleveland State University April 30th 2012 Abstract: The purpose is to identify the similarities between Strain theories‚ and General Theory of Crime. Strain was developed from the work of Durkheim and Merton and taken from the theory of anomie. Durkheim focused on the decrease of societal restraint and the strain that resulted

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    Symptoms of Autism Most parents of autistic children suspect that something is wrong by the time the child is 18 months old and seek help by the time the child is age 2. Children with autism typically have difficulties in: • Pretend play • Social interactions • Verbal and nonverbal communication Some children with autism appear normal before age 1 or 2 and then suddenly "regress" and lose language or social skills they had previously gained. This is called the regressive type of autism.

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    behavior. In this paper I will describe the interactions between the bio-psycho-social dimensions of development. Explain the concept of human diversity and cultural competence and explain the connection between general systems theory and social order. Comprehending the general systems theory and how it works‚ having cultural competency‚ and being able to understand the bio-psycho dimensions of human development are all important factors in providing effective services in human service careers.

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    Strain theory is "a micro-level‚ process explanation of individuals criminal behavior based on notion of goal frustration" (Howell‚ 2015). The general strain theory of crime and delinquency was developed by Robert Agnew’s in 1985 (Akers & Sellers‚ 2009). The theory has three explanatory factors which is first the strain that lead to negative emotion then to behavior‚ but what can impact a person response to a strain is the internal and external constraints. An internal constraint is the type of value

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