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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 2
01/21/2013

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The united states...
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now has about 3200 people on death row ans another 140000 serving life. a third of them cant get parole.
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Counting prisons and
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jails, almost 2.3 million citizens are incarcerated.
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All forms of corrections...
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are taken into account, including probation, parole, and community corrections, more that 3 percent of all adults are under some form of correctional control.
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Conservatives and liberals are especially leery...
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about continuing to invest in what many political leaders, especially conservatives, see as a system that is not as effective as it ought to be.
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People who study corrections want to see beyond..
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the three minute news story, to understand what is happening to people caught in the system.
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And those people suspect that...
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what seems so simple from the viewpoint of a politician arguing for a new law, or from the perspective of a news reporter sharing the latest crime story.
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Although the increase...
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in prison probation receives the most publicity, a greater proportion of correctional growth has occurred in probation and parole.
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Correctional Policy
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the great experimental in social control.
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Rate of incarceration
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U.S. is highest in the world.
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The central purpose...
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of corrections is to carry out the criminal sentence.
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19th century sociologist
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Emily Durkheim argued that crime is normal and punishment performs the important functions of spot lighting social roles and values.
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Corrections is...
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A complicated web of disparate processes that, ideally, serve the goals of fair punishment and community protection.
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These twin goals-
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punishment and protection- not only define the purpose of corrections but also serve as criteria by which we evaluate correctional work.
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These processes all...
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affect one another because offenders pass through corrections in a kind of assembly line with loops.
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Corrections has...
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reciprocal relationship with its environment.
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Systems learn, grow...
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and improve according to the feedback they receive about their effectiveness.
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Less than 1...
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percent of individuals on probation, 12% of those on parole, and 13% of those in prison are under federal corrections.
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What four states
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California, Texas, Florida, and New York. handle more then a third of all prisoners.
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Jail a facility
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only hold you for 48 hours
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Recall, too, that corrections...
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are relatively invisible until trouble occurs.
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Conflicting among the..
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branches and levels of government also creates problems for corrections.
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Both branches complain....
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that court rulings set unfair constraints on their ability to handle assigned offenders.
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Federalism...
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A system of government in which power and responsibilities are divided between a national gov't and state gov't.
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Shifting social and political forces
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are part of what make corrections so interesting to study.
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Shifting social and political forces are divided into
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three separate areas. Management, upholding social values, and working with offenders.
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Michael Lipsky has provided
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most vivid portrait of the problems facing correctional workers.
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Michael Lipsky coined the term...
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Street-level bureaucrats
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The term Uncertain technologies...
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refers to methods of applying scientific knowledge to practical purposes in a particular field. "scientific studies"
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A key facet in corrections..
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degree of interdependence between staff and offenders.
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Struggles for resources
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also occur between corrections and relation social service agencies.
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