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Introduction Within the criminal justice field, the question has often been asked: “What role does literacy play in crime?” According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, up to “70% of the incarcerated population is believed to be illiterate in some jurisdictions” (1999). Many criminals end up in prison because they do not have the literacy ...
The American corrections system is failing in its effectiveness on re-habilitation of the prison and jail populations. The rate of re-arrest for American convicts are astoundingly high and continually growing. Inmates have a little less than a fifty-fifty chance of a successful probation period upon discharge from a prison or jail (The Washington Post)1. At ...
There is some concern in the criminal justice arena about the safety of releasing prisoners into society after serving long prison terms. Recidivism, for one thing, frightens many police officers and attorneys, because it is likely that violent offenders will re-offend once placed back in society. However, it is unethical to keep prisoners beyond their ...
The functionalist theory explains crime as a result of the lack of moral regulation within a society which is produced by structural tensions within a society. Durkheim initially introduced a term, “anomie” which described a feeling of disorientation and anxiety as a result of the “breakdown of traditional life in modern society” (Giddens, Duneier, & ...