Who bears the primary responsibility for the conditions in prison and the conduct of prisoner;, the society, the criminal justice system or the prisoners themselves?
Date Submitted: 03/04/2003 03:43:44
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 5 pages (1306 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 5 pages (1306 words)
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY FOR DEVIANT CONDUCT AND PENITENTIARY CONDITIONS
Criminologists, sociologists and psychologists have studied underlying causes of crime
since a long time but there are still not universally agreed-upon reasons. Most criminal research show that guilty people have always a complicated psychology. Social factors and internal factors both determine a criminal's conduct, and this complicity makes us to question those factors and thus want to find out who is primarily responsible for people being behind …
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…in there. From that point of view, it should be accepted that society is primarily responsible for the conditions in prisons as well.
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3) Felt, James W.. Making Sense of Your Freedom: Philosophy for the
Perplexed. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY. 1994
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