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The subject of justice for juveniles is not only a major issue for incarcerated teens and their families but also for society at large. This book explores the juvenile justice system from the home and neighborhood environments that often produce troubled teens to juvenile courts, detention facilities, and efforts at education and rehabilitation. Learn about the varieties of detention arrangements-such as shelters, group homes, and foster homes-and...
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We have all seen the many television dramas and movies about criminals and prisons, but the real world of incarcerations remains hidden from most people's experience. This book explores the realities of overcrowding, disease, violence, and abuse in prison institutions. It considers multiple perspectives from social scientists, victims, and prison workers to the prisoners themselves. This look behind the bars of North America's incarceration facilities...
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Prison conditions are very different in different parts of the world. Consider Sweden, for example, at one end of the spectrum. In a wing of Sweden's top-security prison, red drapes hang from the ceiling while small candles burn on an altar and men kneel in prayer; prisoners have the opportunity to apply to spend some of their sentence in religious meditation. Similarly, in Denmark, the guards at Jyderup State Prison don't wear uniform and don't even...
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The United States has almost three times as many prisoners as it did just twenty-five years ago. Although the cost of keeping people in prison is rising, there are less expensive alternatives that may also be more effective at keeping people from returning to jail after they are released. Recent changes in the U.S. criminal code allow judges more freedom to give sentences other than prison. Of the almost seven million convicted criminals in the U.S.,...
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How should society treat people who break the law? Since the beginning of time, societies have struggled with this question. The History of Punishment and Imprisonment reviews early forms of punishment from horrific executions and torture in medieval times to the creation of the world's first penitentiaries in the 19th century. In America today, we punish most criminals with imprisonment. The United States has a long history of efforts to not just...
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Unlike in the movies, the pursuit of justice has real consequences for real people. Sometimes the wrong people are arrested while criminals go free. In court trials, the innocent are sometimes wrongfully convicted or held responsible for a crime they didn't commit. Other times, people who actually are guilty of a crime are released or found not guilty. Some convicts may receive far more severe punishments than others who committed the same crime....
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As you read this, thousands of men, women, and even children are being held in prisons around the world, not because they have committed violence, theft, or broken drug laws, but because they spoke against their governments. They are political prisoners; in some cases, they did not even intend to cross their nations' leaders-they just happened to get in the way of schemes of which they were not even aware. This book tells the stories of political...
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, over one million women-nearly 1 percent of the U.S. population-live under some form of correctional supervision in the United States. Drug related offenses, robbery, and violent crimes are the most common reasons U.S. women end up in jail, accounting for more than 80 percent of all female inmates. Whatever the reasons they end up there, the reality is that thousands of women live behind bars. Women...
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Everyone has a stake in the functioning and effectiveness of the prison system-even if you've never committed a crime or been the victim of one. The prison system is an integral part of how society functions-punishing criminals, rehabilitating inmates, and protecting the public. The United States leads the world in incarceration with the largest number of its citizens behind bars. The hugeness of the U.S. prison system raises important issues we all...
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