Academy. Since joining the Academy I have learned more in depths and details about numerous aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication‚ and the importance of daily roles when interacting with inmates. I am learning about the extremes of correctional officer job duties and how the situation can go from typical to life-threatening in a split of a second. In addition‚ I am learning the importance of staying in control and maintain order when responding to emergency situations. From the moment
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environment such as a prison without suffering some form of ill effects. (Carlson & Garrett‚ 2008) Correctional officers oversee inmate of Federal‚ State‚ and local prisons or jail systems. They are responsible for enforcing the rules of their confinement. (Carlson & Garrett‚ 2008) This is why corrections work is one of the most stressful jobs in law enforcement. (Carlson & Garrett‚ 2008) Correctional officers are required to remain continually alert during their entire shift which can be between
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Page 1 Correctional System and the Rehabilitating Offenders Page 2 The correctional system has a way of punishing offenders in this country unlike in different countries where you might get a harsher punishment for a crime that might seem more‚ petty and a lesser punishment for a crime that one would consider more of a harsher crime. In our system however
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Ancient Greek philosophy differs from modern American philosophy in many ways. We shall examine these differences (and similarities) in terms of family life‚ the wealthy‚ slavery‚ and education. Observing the lives of Greek deities and heroes in Greek mythology‚ in addition to Greek art‚ can give us some idea of what everyday life was like in ancient Greece. Greek men had a fairly low opinion of women. Aristotle said that man is by nature superior to the female‚ and so the man should rule
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First what is the Correctional System? It is a set of agencies that control crime and impose penalties on those that might not obey the law or violate them. What is the function of the correctional system? That is a very good question. The United States imprisons more people than any other country. Why is that‚ do American break the law more? To understand the true function of the correctional system you most know what it is not. One many say the system doesn’t work anymore do to the overcrowding
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Introduction Criminologist and politicians have debated the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation programs since the 1970’s when criminal justice scholars and policy makers throughout the United States embraced Robert Martinson’s credo of “nothing works” (Shrum‚ 2004). Recidivism‚ the rate at which released offenders return to jail or prison‚ has become the most accepted outcome measure in corrections. The public’s desire to reduce the economic and social costs associated with crime and incarceration
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corrections and they think of correctional officers. They usually think of them as the candidates that failed to make it onto the police force or as people who barely made it out of high school and needed a job. While this analysis of the job may be true in some instances‚ there a lot of people that go into corrections for better reasons. They are people who want to be able to help others turn their lives around and become a functioning piece of society. A correctional officer is one way someone could
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economy to recover and our citizens to prosper‚ we need to overhaul our correctional system immediately. The correctional system has three main goals: punish‚ protect the population and rehabilitate the offender. However‚ it is unclear how well the modern U.S. correctional system achieves these goals and whether the money invested in the correctional system might be better spent. Perhaps the most obvious goals of the correctional system are to punish those who are found guilty of crimes. In theory
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Abstract This paper will discuss the elements debate between the effectiveness of punishment and rehabilitation. The Punishment model basically moves for offenders to stay imprisoned for lengthy periods of time to reduce recidivism. There are questions to whether or not this model is effective and studies show that most offenders who stay in jail and prisons for a long period of time tend to recidivate and commit other crimes. The Rehabilitation model seeks for reformation of the offender by
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Philosophy is defined in the dictionary as the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence‚ knowledge‚ values‚ reason‚ mind‚ and language. Recently Simmons has referred to philosophy as “knowledge of first causes or of the highest principles of things in so far as these causes or things belong to the natural‚ as opposed to the supernatural order.” (Simmons 1992 p.112) My nursing philosophy is one of holistic care‚ delivering compassionate and culturally sensitive
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