Evaluating Credibility And Its Impact On The Society Of The United States Prison System

The way the criminal justice system should handle crimes has always been a debated subject. For over the last forty years, ever since the war on drugs, there are more policies made to be “tough on crime”. From then, correctional systems have grown and as people are doing more crimes, there are plenty of punishments for them. In the mid 1970’s, rehabilitation was the main concern for the criminal justice system. It was common that when someone was convicted of a crime, they would be sentenced to prison but there would also be diagnosed treatments to help them as well. Most likely, they would have committed a crime due to psychological problems. When they receive treatment in prison, they can be healed and would not go back to their wrong lifestyle they had lived before. As years have gone by, people thought that it was better to take a more punitive stance in the criminal justice system. As a result of the turnaround of this more punitive criminal justice system, the United States now has more than 2 million people in prisons or jails--the equivalent of one in every 142 U.S. residents--and another four to five million people on probation or parole. The U.S. has a higher percentage of the

As the imprisoned population in the United States grows and American culture changes, rehabilitation is becoming popular among these alternatives to a standard prison system. Rehabilitation when referring to criminal justice are programs and methods used to assist prisoners in reforming themselves in order to avoid the habits that placed them in prison in the first place. These programs are becoming more popular due to the high cost of imprisonment and a change in American culture. Each prisoner costs forty thousand dollars each year to keep in prison(Weissmueller). This is money that is coming out of the taxes paid by United States citizens who aren’t even in the prison system. Alongside this, American culture is changing to be supporting of rehabilitation efforts as Americans see the effectiveness of criminal justice systems that include it. This was seen on a trip to Europe by U.S. prison officials; once they had seen the effectiveness of German and Dutch prison rehabilitation, they wanted to bring similar programs to their prisons (“People, not prisoners”). A rehabilitation based criminal justice system in the United States is gaining popularity, and as it does so it is earning the attention it needs and deserves.

Whenever you imagine prison, you think up ideas and violent images that you have seen in the movies or on TV.   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are stereotypical of everyday life in prison.   Perhaps it could be a combination of your upbringing, horrific ideas about the punishment which our nation inflicts on those who violate its’ more serious laws that keeps people frightened just enough to lead a law-abiding life. Despite it’s success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the American prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society, it is also extremely expensive and wastes our precious tax dollars.

Each day vast amounts of people with mental disorders are being cycled through the criminal justice system. A recent study shows that approximately twenty percent of prisoners have a mental illness, and out of all of the mentally ill people alive, forty percent of them will serve some sort of jail time in their lifetime. In recent studies, it has also appeared that individuals being incarcerated have more severe types of mental illness, including psychotic disorders and major mood disorders than they did in the past. In fact, according to the American Psychiatric Association, between two and four percent of all inmates in state prisons are estimated to have a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia, thirteen to nineteen percent have severe

“Rehabilitation Over Incarceration” is an essay written by a K-State student on the issue of prisoners being rehabilitated back into the real world/ rather than imprisoning, rehabilitating into society. The writer focuses on Norway’s prison system versus the United States as well as education between prisoners in the two country’s systems. Next, the writer focuses on the values of educating the U.S. prisoners, including benefits as well as outlined cost to do so. Lastly, the student asks us the why portion which includes statistics on ethnicities in colleges and universities (1-9).

The United States has the highest rate of adult incarceration among the developed countries, with 2.2 million in jails and prisons. A recent study by the U.S. Department of Justice found that more than half of all prisons and jail inmates have a mental health problem compared to 11 percent of the general population, yet only one of three prison inmates and one in six jail inmates receive any form of mental health treatment. Those with mental disorders have been increasingly incarcerated during the past three decades. The treatment of severally mentally ill offenders has become an increasingly important and urgent issue because

The American prison finds its origin in Europe. Like most things American we have adopted and adapted many of our beliefs and customs from our mother land. The punishment of confinement was rare and unheard of in America before Eighteenth century. The English concept of prison and incarceration did not even take root until the late Eighteenth Century (Hirsch, 1992). Now, American’s cannot claim that they invented prisons or the concept of confining criminal offenders within facilities that keep them separate from society. However, they can accredit themselves with championing the concept of prison reformation. Much like its English counterpart the early American prison system, which would one day grow to be an integral part of the expansive American Criminal Justice System, had an ugly and brutal start. Confinement conditions for Prisoners were harsh and unrelenting. Most Facilities designed to house criminal offenders were over populated, under staffed, and lacked necessary resources to support their growing population of inmates (Clear & Cole, 2003). However, over the years, America has made many strives to correct the errors of their predecessors. This paper will detail the early American Prison System and its journey through reformation to become the modern Prison system that we know today.

It is no secret that the issue on incarceration is ever apparent. This is mainly due to the underlying stigma of those convicted of said crime, which is especially hard to break out of, even for minorities who are constantly scrutinized on a daily basis for their racial background. Questions were made in the process, wondering almost exactly what had been the reason for the stigma and discrimination of former convicts. Reading the book; “Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration”, Devah Pager, the author of this book, goes into detail of the possible explanations by means of conducting experiments in order to find the answers. However, another question is in place; where the methods in which they used efficient enough to provide a clear answer? Though they had gone in the right direction, it is obvious that due to the nature of the experiments, that there was room for bias as well as a lack of accuracy. However, the researcher had

According to the Prison Policy Initiative from Bureau of Justice Statistics ,a experiment recorded in the year of 2010 shows to us that the United States incarceration rates by race were approximately 380 white people ,966 latino people ,and 2,207 black people (Thomas).These numbers are not balanced at any rate.The US Bureau of Justice Statistics also did a test displaying that every male black child that is conceived in 2001 has a 32% chance of attending prison or juvenile detention center ,and compared to whites which is 6% that displays that blacks are five times more likely to go to jail than white males are (Quigley). Racism in the criminal justice system leads to internal problems within jails, external problems regarding criminal sentences and police, and mentally damaging toward the human being called out for the crime. Throughout all this information this led me to question; To what extent do races play a role in incarceration?

The Unites States of America’s prison system is a flawed mess. To open the eyes of our government we must first take a stand against unlawful government decisions, and show support for the greater good of society. What are our own tax-dollars paying for, what are the flaws in the justice/prison system, why is overcrowding in prisons causing tension, and what are ways our society and government can rebuild the system that has been destroyed over the years? Most criminals in prisons are not a danger to our society because they commit crimes just to use jail as a shelter, causing the overcrowding of prisons and wasting away of what we really should be paying for.

The nuances of his findings were lost, and the research was presented as showing that correctional treatment programs did not work at rehabilitating criminal offenders. The infamous sound bite that emerged from this was that “Nothing Works” when it comes to rehabilitation (para.3).

http://www.apa.org. Retrieved 6 June 2017, from http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab.aspx Benson is more concise and precise in trying to bring a concise comparison between the act of rehabilitation and the act of retribution. He consider retribution as a form of punishment that serves no purpose to the prisoner. The author is more inclined towards advocating for the art of rehabilitation over and above retribution.

Credibility judgment of information largely rests upon three elements of communication: source, message, and medium (Metzger, Flanagin, Eyal, Lemus, & McCann, 2003). Source credibility refers to the degree to which individuals perceive an information source as reliable. A source of information may be a person, a group, or an organization, each of which has its own characteristics that may affect credibility perception such as ability (expertise) and motivation (trustworthiness) to provide accurate and trustful information (Tormala & Petty, 2004). Message credibility is an evaluation of characteristics of the message communicated such as informational quality, accuracy, currency and language intensity, which create believability (Metzger et

As a result, the analyzed data found that high credibility web sites focused on author, relevance, and education. In contrast, unreliable web sites focused on lack of information corroboration, biases, and personal

The knowledge base of a person can be corrupted by an outside influential(s) that could hinder the knowledge material transmittable to other(s). This knowledge could be influence negativity without notice by the transmitter or facilitator some examples are; any kind status, fallacious knowledge, religion, political agenda, even sexual orientation. Knowledge that is infected by any negative influences is neither valid nor reliable. Therefore, credibility it is violated. Socrates the pioneer of seeking knowledge he used to go to the streets and just talked to people just to learn something new. “Socrates asked a methodical series