Community Corrections Kit Vanden Heuvel CJS/230 July 31‚ 2011 Maria Brewer Community Corrections Community corrections address many complex issues that plague the criminal justice system in the United States. Many alternatives have come to fruition in an attempt to decrease incarceration‚ rehabilitate offenders‚ lower crime rates‚ reduce recidivism‚ and control costs. We currently lead all other nations in producing prisoners. Community corrections could put us in a more positive and productive
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August 10‚ 2012 Write a 200- to 300-word response in which you describe the distinctions between jails and prisons. Address the following in your comparison. The differences between jails and prison are that jails are locally functioned short term imprisonment facilities initially constructed to grasp defendant’s subsequent capture and unresolved track. Prison is a habitation where sentenced criminals oblige time as sentence for violating the law is a comparatively new expansion in the conduct
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Do parole boards have to specify why they deny parole? 17. What percentage/number of offenders get prison vs community based sanctions? 18. Difference b/w parole and probation 19. Powers of probation officers 20. Advantages/ disadvantages of being a parole/ probation officer 21. What are examples of community based corrections? 22. Conditions of probation- know the types of conditions 23. Probation- who can get it? What does it cost? Who orders it? 24. What are
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Davin Thomas Assignment two 7/5/12 Dr. Singh Justice is a word that has been defined by many but all seem to have similar meanings. For example‚ Plato thinks that justice consists of maintaining the societal status quo. In addition‚ justice is seen as one’s virtues‚ wisdom‚ temperance‚ and courage. He states that in an ordered state everyone should perform his or her role and not interfere with what others do. Whereas‚ Aristotle says justice is within the law and that the law is the
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Summarizing the Medigap Program There are ten plans available to Medigap policyholders labeled A through J. These plans have core benefits that are available to the policyholder. In summary‚ payment for an extended stay in the hospital that the Medicare insurance did not cover would be covered by the Medigap insurance. This insurance would also pay all or the majority of the co-pay. It would cover preventive care‚ first 3 pints of blood‚ skilled nursing facility coinsurance and deductible Medicare
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Heath Wetzel Conceptual Map 10/26/2009 Comp II How does the media stereotype you? *Come as your favorite stereotype: By Geo Vittoratos. Stereotypes Japanese women as some people may think of them. It shows a Japanese girl with slanted eyes‚ white paint on her face and dressed in a robe. (Race and Culture) *Will Stereotype for food: By The Latino Comedy Project. Stereotypes Mexicans as people with out jobs that will do any line of work to get by. It has four Mexicans in the back
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Final Paper Student ID: Maya DeNola California State University Long Beach CRJU 303 – Corrections December 12‚ 2012 Professor: Ryan Fischer Table of Content Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Historical perspective ……………………………………………………………………………..5 Current Policy surrounding mental health treatment in prisons…………………………………..7 Evidence to support the current/historical correctional approaches………………………………9 Evidence to refute the current/historical correctional approaches………………………………
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Final Paper First name-last name CJS/230 June 9‚ 2013 Josephine Kerr Final Paper Community corrections are all over the world. The United States punishes criminals in multiple ways. The author will explain what community correction method the United States should focus more on later throughout the paper. He will also address how United States Prisons compare to foreign countries. Community Corrections Community Corrections “is a program
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Rite of Passage Paper BSHS/342 11/03/2012 Rite of Passage Paper Life begins with the birth of everyone and will end with their deaths. There are several rites of passages that will occur through their life time such as their graduation‚ wedding‚ and having children. The most difficult times in a person’s life is when they are going through adolescence‚ which is the time the person is going through childhood to adulthood. There are many obstacles they have to overcome during this difficult
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Summarizing the Medigap Program 1 Summarizing the Medigap Program Debbie Ryan July 18‚ 2010 Ms. LaShay Martin AXIA College of University of Phoenix Summarizing the Medigap Program 2 Medigap insurance was started to help out with the medical expenses that government program Medicare did not pay. Unlike the Medicare program the Medigap insurance is private insurance one would acquire through an insurance company. Some of the core benefits of Medigap Insurance
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