However, a negative effect on society is that you honestly cannot determine whether the probationer will abide by the rules that the courts set in place. The other negative effect they could have on society is the probationers may go out and commit more crimes. My hypothesis about the overall effectiveness of community corrections is that it is lacking in its attempts to keep probationers off drugs and alcohol. I also think that urinalysis tests are not fool proof, and can easily be manipulated and passed by the help of the detox drinks that there is
Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prisons Heather M behr CJS/230 January 27, 2013 Ronald Bayne Abstract The ideal for penitentiary is to keep the criminals off the streets, so that he or she cannot continue to commit crime in the society. There were two kinds of prison models, Auburn and the Eastern states. We will talk about what they differences are between the two models, and the benefits and drawbacks. We will also discuss what model was chosen to be the winner. Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prisons The ideal of penitentiary was to have a set of principals rather than physical institution with shape and form.
Shafer !1 Mindy Shafer Mrs. Gonder AP Lang, Period 2 21 November 2014 The Issue of Insanity Defense The defense of the insane dates back to the Hammurabi Code, but the issue of using the insanity plea as a tactical defense has become more prevalent today. The proper use of the insanity defense has changed the lives of many people actually suffering with mental illnesses by giving them a chance to heal and make progress on their recovery. The insanity defense, however, can also exempt criminals from their full punishments by sending them to a mental hospital until they are "cured." Even though the insanity defense is easy to define, insanity itself has no real universal legal definition, and the lack of said definition causes problems when convicting criminals. Since insanity is defined so arbitrarily, lawyers can protect their clients from their punishments with relative ease by dragging out the legal process for years at a time by using the insanity defense.
An example of a Diversion Program is treatment program; such as substance abuse programs, which permits an individual to complete a substance abuse program instead of serving jail time. Another form of diversion is mental health treatment, which an individual receives mental health treatment to manage their illness. Providing an individual with the options of treatment is with hopes their specific needs are met. An intervention of treatment will most likely decrease the chances of the individual committing a new offense, if they are successful in their program. It also assures that they receive treatment, which otherwise may not be an option for them and it contributes to decreasing the prison systems population.
Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity. Depo-Provera also decreases aggressive tendencies by reducing testosterone. The castrated criminal would be more docile and have a better opportunity to be rehabilitated, educated, and to become a productive citizen. Castration removes the biological and chemical tendencies that are intrinsically linked to the desire to rape in males. (Amlin, 2008) Prison is less desirable because it serves no rehabilitative purpose for sexual offenders.
Probation may have been a good idea when it was first went into effect but, I do not feel that probation is structured and does not work for the most part. I feel probation is controlled by politics. I think probation is given to reduce the problem of overcrowding. I also feel that when there is not enough evidence but the judge has to reprimand to look good in the eyes of society that probation is offered. In the future, I feel probation programs should be changed and only offered to first time offenders or crimes that are considered low on the poll.
Egoist do not feel that the greatest happiness is a result of being spread out within a population. Egoism says that self is most important and whatever way to ensure that self is satisfied is the best option. Police officers and interrogators depend on this need to ‘help self’, when it comes to trying to get the answers they are looking for in order to solve a crime. The theory that is consistent with cooperating with the other prisoner and rejecting self would be the utilitarian theory. With utilitarianism, one feels that the common welfare and greater good of others is what is most important.
This would perhaps help their system with putting people that need to be in prison. With implementing the correctional system of the United States, they would not have to resort to imprisonment all the time. They could use other methods that would rehabilitate their offenders. Some of those methods could include community supervision, treatment programs. This would cut down on head count of their prison.
Because of this incoming prisoners with mental illness are not always identified, are sent to standard wings where their need for required treatment may go unrecognised. Many new incomers choose not to reveal past history of mental health problems for fear of discrimination from staff/peers & what the consequences of divulging facts to someone they consider to be ‘part of the establishment’, would be. A Forensic Psychologist may be faced with a complex prisoner who is uncooperative, makes a conscious effort to deceive or distort facts. The Classification of Mental Illness. The latest version of ‘The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’, (DSM-IV-TR), is a categorical classification system to diagnose psychiatric illnesses, used by Clinicians/Psychiatrists who have been extensively trained in the system, the manual is considered to be their ‘Bible’.
What does prison overcrowding cause? And can it be stopped? Prison overcrowding is caused by a variety of issues, such as not enough room in prisons, fluctuating crime rates, changes to laws and improvements to law enforcement tactics. So first the obsessive view from some lawmakers that the only way to reduce crime is to keep offenders off the streets no matter what the crime. In other words don’t worry about rehabilitation just keep the offenders in jail for the rest of their lives and pay the cost of housing, boarding, and punishing them.