Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration.(Book Review)Jones, Justin
Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration Michael Jacobson. New York University Press, 2005 Read preview Overview Prisons after Woolf: Reform through Riot Elaine Player; Michael Jenkins. Routledge, 1994 Read preview Overview American Prisons: A Study in American Socia...
There is a clear road ahead here. If you want to reduce homicide and many forms of gang violence, and many suicides while you’re at it, just ban guns, or at least severely restrict access to them. Just consider how none of America’s top-ten mass shootings occurred during the federal...
The roots of “pig butchering” scams reach back to the offshore gambling industry that emerged from China in the early 2000s. Online casinos had become hugely popular in China, but the government cracked down, forcing the operators to relocate to Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, and Myan...
What is the impact of mass incarceration on African American children and youth? What were the effects of the Stanford Prison Experiment? What kind of crimes lead to a life sentence? What is the Juvenile Justice system? Discuss how this Juvenile Justice system affects someone? What factors contr...
That fact keeps OITNB true to its source material in spirit and faithful to many of the ideals of Piper Kerman — the author of the memoir from which the series was adapted. After serving her time in real life, Kerman dedicated her time to efforts ending mass incarceration in the United ...
One process involved in ageing is the shortening of telomeres when cells reproduce, but it may be possible to reduce this effect through gene therapy. Recent research has shown that non-genetically modified mice born with hyper-long telomeres showed significantly better health at old age by ...
If you are motivated to act, I implore you to further discover and advocate for organizations focused on reproductive health and also uplift organizations that service communities in an effort to reduce poverty, overincarceration and sexual violence and increase access to healthy food, mental health,...
Simon, J. (2012). Mass incarceration: From social policy to social problem. In J. Petersilia & K. R. Reitz (Eds.),The Oxford handbook of sentencing and corrections(pp. 138–174). New York: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar ...
The group to which I belong, known as the Thirteenth Amendment Project, aims to find ways to use the Amendment to reduce economic injustice in the U.S. and tackle problems such as minimum labor standards and mass incarceration. In our view, the meaning of "involuntary servitude" in the ...