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Criminal psychology, also referred to as criminological psychology,is the study of the views,thoughts,intentions,actions and reactions of criminals and suspects. It is a subfield of criminology and applied psychology.
East Jersey State Prison is a medium-security prison operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in Avenel,Woodbridge Township,New Jersey. It was established in 1896 as Rahway State Prison,and was the first reformatory in New Jersey,officially opening in 1901. It housed 1,227 inmates as of 2020.
Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States. In 2023,over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system,with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest known prison population in the world,it has 5% of the world’s population,and 20% of the world’s incarcerated persons. China,with four times more inhabitants,has fewer persons in prison. Prison populations grew dramatically beginning in the 1970s,but began a decline around 2009,dropping 25% by year-end 2021.
Recidivism is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they have experienced negative consequences of that behavior,or have been trained to extinguish it. Recidivism is also used to refer to the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense.
Scared Straight! is a 1978 American documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk,the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison,a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate,scream at,and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight",so that those teenagers will avoid prison life.
Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001,Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3 million inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States. A United States Department of Justice report,Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates,states that "In 2011–12,an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission to the facility,if less than 12 months." However,advocates dispute the accuracy of the numbers,saying they seem to under-report the real numbers of sexual assaults in prison,especially among juveniles.
Boot camps are part of the correctional and penal system of some countries. Modeled after military recruit training camps,these programs are based on shock incarceration grounded on military techniques. The aggressive training used has resulted in deaths in a variety of circumstances. Boot camps are also criticized around the world for their lack of behavioral change and for the way extreme force can traumatize children and teenagers.
Valley State Prison (VSP),previously the Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW),is a state prison in Chowchilla,California. It is across the road from Central California Women's Facility. It was formerly a prison for women.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (UJC) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime,criminal victimization,criminal offenders,victims of crime,correlates of crime,and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal,state,tribal,and local levels. Established on December 27,1979,BJS collects,analyzes,and publishes data relating to crime in the United States. The agency publishes data regarding statistics gathered from the roughly fifty-thousand agencies,offices,courts,and institutions that together comprise the U.S. justice system.
According to the World Prison Brief the United States in 2021 had the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world,at 531 people per 100,000. Between 2019 and 2020,the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. In 2018,the United States had the highest incarceration rate in the world.
A prison,also known as a jail,gaol,penitentiary,detention center,correction center,correctional facility,or remand center,is a facility where people are confined against their will and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state,generally as punishment for various crimes. Authorities most commonly use prisons within a criminal-justice system:people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial;those who have pled or been found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.
The World's Strictest Parents is an international television franchise reality series developed by Twenty Twenty with its original broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Three. There are also many other international foreign versions including an Australian version,a New Zealand version,and a German -version titled "Die strengsten Eltern der Welt". As well other locales to have locally produced adaptations include Scandinavia,Turkey,and Poland. The series won an International Emmy Award for best Non-Scripted Entertainment.
The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world,although reports claim China has around 600,000 juveniles imprisoned which would be more than the US,through the juvenile courts and the adult criminal justice system,which reflects the larger trends in incarceration practices in the United States. In 2010,approximately 70,800 juveniles were incarcerated in youth detention facilities alone. As of 2006,approximately 500,000 youth were brought to detention centers in a given year. This data does not reflect juveniles tried as adults. As of 2013,around 40% were incarcerated in privatized,for-profit facilities.
Crime After Crime is a 2011 award-winning documentary film directed by Yoav Potash about the case of Deborah Peagler,an incarcerated victim of domestic violence whose case was taken up by pro bono attorneys through The California Habeas Project.
Incarceration prevention refers to a variety of methods aimed at reducing prison populations and costs while fostering enhanced social structures. Due to the nature of incarceration in the United States today caused by issues leading to increased incarceration rates,there are methods aimed at preventing the incarceration of at-risk populations.
Lifers Group was a hip hop group formed by Maxwell Melvins while incarcerated at East Jersey State Prison in Rahway,New Jersey in 1991.
World's Strictest Parents is an American reality television series that first aired on April 18,2009,on CMT and concluded on December 17,2010.
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- ↑ Beyond Scared Straight (Crime, Reality-TV), 2011-01-13, retrieved 2023-02-05
- ↑ Robbins, Caryn. "A&E's BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT to Conclude Following Season 9". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ↑ Beyond Scared Straight (TV Series 2011–2015) - IMDb , retrieved 2023-02-05
- ↑ "The Many Things that are Wrong with A&E's "Beyond Scared Straight" Program". Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2023-02-05.