Americans have little sympathy for prisoners complaining about the conditions or of they are being abused in any way. Many Americans believe that prisoners have lost all rights when been convicted of any crime. I also think that many Americans have no idea what goes on in the prisons. Incidents that happen in prison aren't televised like it would be outside the prison walls. Plus what happens in prison doesn't effect society.
Cohen’s theory assured that lower class youth enter into gang delinquency as a group response to a failure to acquire status as measured by middle class norms and values. Since lower-class youths are disadvantaged in institutional settings such as school, they lack the means and opportunities to attain culturally prescribed goals. He said that working class youths suffer from status frustration, they realize that they cannot achieve in middle class terms. According to him, even though lower class boys want a middle class status; they can not compete with middle class boy because they don’t have middle class values. As a result, they engage in reaction formation and reject the middle class world.
Prison Comparison Contrast Carlita Jones University of Phoenix CJA 234 A penitentiary is a facility that confines the most horrific criminals to keep them out of society in an effort to punish and at the same time, keep society safe from these criminals. Inside a penitentiary is another world completely separate from the rest of the world. Most people dread the thought of ever ending up there, others never thought about it much, and some people cannot wait to go there, like gang members earning their stripes. The ideal penitentiary is always far from reality. An ideal penitentiary would punish without violence, although sometimes violence is part of the punishment for some.
The Reality of Prisons In America Growing up, I always learned that prison was where the “bad guys” go. As I grew older, I started to learn more about prison, what it is used for, and conformed to the idea that prison makes society a safer place. Contrary to my beliefs, evidence has seemingly proven me wrong. Our prison system here in America is failing to do everything but reach it’s goal- to keep citizens safe, reduce criminal activity, and teach convicts a lesson while giving them the chance to change their behavior. This idea that Americans have in their brains- that prison “works” seems to mean that it reduces crime.
Running Head: Ethical Treatment of Prisoners Ethical Treatment of Prisoners Hernando F. Carithers SOC 120 Professor Robert Wengrzyn June 8, 2011 Abstract In Today society, there are over 2 million people in prisons and jails and it’s getting larger and larger and the staffs who work at these institutions still don’t know how to treat one another and this is where the problem starts we don’t know how to communicate or interact with one another. Ethical Treatment of Prisoners Even though Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners are similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to correction officials, inmates and human right advocates.
Like what Xavier said in his argument, the government would wasting money on the prisoners, I believe that’s true the government is helping giving the prisoners a second chance and to be educated. Voluntary, prisoners have a choice to choose whether or not they'd want to do the job, but according to law the prison labor is recommended for these people and to help them. Though they may seem vicious and cruel it shouldn’t stop them from gaining new skills for a job industry. Employment may include baker, laundry, kitchen, wood work, retailer shops, farming, gardening, community work and cleaning. This form of labor can help with their rehabilitation.
However, the author never mentions the options of community service, probation, etc. which are also part of the penal system. Many non-violent crimes do not result in jail time; instead they are referred to one of these other programs. Jacoby brings forth the reality that prison is a very expensive option. The first cost arises from the number of prisons that have been built across the nation to accommodate the booming number of inmates.
Specifically self awareness was destroyed by forcing the least reformed prisoner to be tied up and left to depend on the other inmates to help them perform normal daily human functions. That type of social alienation would make the most hardened criminal loose self-respect. This was their way of making him learn the “truth” about himself and to confess. 4. What mechanisms do people use, and mechanisms could prisoners of war have used, to resist a change in their self-concepts?
For the vast majority of these individuals, there will be no bail and dream teams to defend them. Being poor can be a defining issue in whether these people will receive the same treatment as their white or rich counterparts. Gender: In viewing many arrests in my lifetime, there seemed to be an overwhelming silent principle to arrest the ‘man’ rather than the women in abuse cases. Females are believed to not be the aggressor in the relationship, which simply isn’t the case in many instances. A spokesman for the SAVE foundation, Carl Starling, states, “Predominant aggressor laws pressure police officers to arrest the man regardless of who called the police or what person instigated the abuse," according to SAVE spokesman Carl Starling.
They will withhold critical evidence from the defense team and will resort to immoral if not illegal tactics in their investigation of the offense. Their personal opinion is that they actually do not care if the defendant is guilty or innocent, they just want a conviction. They want to extract their pound of flesh. Also researchers have determined that some of the causes of prison overcrowding are harsher penalties for criminal activities, changes to laws that make new actions illegal, high recidivism rates and needed improvements to the penal system. Once the causes of crowding have been fixed researchers can begin to address the problems it causes and deal with them.