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A Validation Study Of The Nebraska Department Of Corrections Inmate Classification Model, Jon L. Proctor
A Validation Study Of The Nebraska Department Of Corrections Inmate Classification Model, Jon L. Proctor
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Inmate classification models have recently shifted from subjective criteria to objective classification. With this change, classification has moved away from reformation of inmate behavior to managing prison populations. Objective classification seeks to accomplish two functions. First, the models attempt to make decisions that are rational, consistent, and fair. Second, variables used in objective models attempt to predict which offenders will have institutional adjustment problems. The present study assesses Nebraska's inmate classification model for its objectivity and its predictive capacity. A sample of 458 males offenders admitted into Nebraska Prisons in 1990 was used. Offenders divided intro three custody levels; minimum, …
Homeless And Mentally Ill: Meeting The Needs, Donna K. Wilson
Homeless And Mentally Ill: Meeting The Needs, Donna K. Wilson
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This paper examines the characteristics of homeless mentally ill individuals in a midwest metropolitan area and describes the difficulties they encounter when trying to secure services that would help them change their situation. The study examines the role bureaucracy plays in the social problem of the homeless mentally ill. An ethnographic approach is used to study the question how is it that bureaucracy gets in its own way in attempting to meet the needs of the homeless mentally ill? Both demographic and observational data are provided in this study and the observational data indicate that certain aspects that are inherent …
Innovations In Sentencing: The Use Of Scarlet Letter Dispositions, Catherine A. Elwell
Innovations In Sentencing: The Use Of Scarlet Letter Dispositions, Catherine A. Elwell
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Scarlet letter sentencing dispositions are innovative alternatives to incarceration posited as special probation conditions granted to offenders deemed able to live in the community. These sanctions resemble scarlet letter punishments of the Seventeenth Century as illustrated in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter for Hester Prynne. They are designed as bumper or windshield stickers, yard signs, screen prints on T-shirts, and public apologies. This study investigates the proliferation of these innovative penalties created by judges to require drunk drivers, sex offenders, thieves/burglars, white-collar criminals, and drug offenders to publicly disclose the nature of their crime and identify themselves as perpetrators. Societal and …