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Literature Review of “Thank You, Ma’am “
Love
Prison
Everyone makes mistakes, but everyone has the second chance to change in their lives. Langston Hughes has written many enlightening stories to tell us positive attitude and lifestyles. In Hughes’ short story, “Thank You, Ma’am “, it talks about a boy named Roger, who attempts to steal Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s purse but fails….
The Zimbardo Experiment
Criminal Law
Criminology
Law enforcement
Prison
On a quiet Sunday morning in August, a Palo Alto, California, police car swept through the town picking up college students as part of a mass arrest for violation of Penal Codes 211, Armed Robbery, and Burglary, a 459 PC. The suspect was picked up at his home, charged, warned of his legal rights, spread-eagled…
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Crime
Prison
Prison overcrowding
Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption “I’m telling you, these walls are funny. First, you hate them. Then you get used to them. Enough time passes, it gets so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized. ” – “Red,” from The Shawshank Redemption. We are all born as bare as a blank canvas. It is through the process of…
The Saga of the Outlaws Glen Hunsucker & Ed “Perchmouth” Stanton
Criminal Law
Jury
Justice
Law enforcement
Prison
In a letter to H.P. Lovecraft, circa September or October 1933, Howard was discussing the tenacity of Texas Rangers tracking down outlaws and murderers when he touched on the subject of a couple of bad actors who killed several Texas peace officers. When Glen Hunsucker, nineteen year old bandit, and ten times as desperate as…
A Reflection on the Prison System and Social Justice in the United States of America
Crime
Justice
Prison
Social Justice
Before I had begun my research over the prison systems and social justice, I had my own ideas and concepts that I had generated based on assumptions and stereotypes. Nonetheless, I had a much kinder idea of what prison systems were like. I had envisioned cruel and ruthless prisons that mocked the justice system for…
Vengeful Equity: Sentencing Women to Prison
Mandatory sentencing
Prison
This paper will address the issues surrounding the criminal incarceration of women in American society through the discussion of the views of Meda Chesney-Lind in her 1997 paper “Vengeful Equity: Sentencing Women to Prison.” It will present critical reasons of incarceration dealing with the onset of the “Rockefeller Laws,” problems with translation, and results. In…