RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC
“Correctional system management: ways to achieve the inmate recovery goal and ensure safety for the officers to accomplish their duties”.
ORIENTATIONS FOR FORMATATION
• 12 pages research paper (Does not include references, cover page, abstract or figures).
• Double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point font, Times New Roman.
• APA format style (Please, even for the citations that are not exactly the same words of the reference-non direct quotes, include the pages where it came from).
GENERAL ORIENTATIONS ABOUT THE RESEARCH PAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Please, use the suggested bibliography (all the files are attached), but if you want to take some other information, follow the next guidelines:
• It’s required to support the argument using other research papers (i.e. peer-reviewed articles accessible via Google Scholar, JSTOR, etc.) and other appropriate literature (e.g. reports by legitimate non-profits, policing organizations, etc.).
OVERAL STRUCTURE
• Abstract: Have one or two sentences that will explain the section (200-250 words) – Has its own page – Key words.
• Intro: One and half page – Citations – Will tell the reader what your thesis statement is (evaluative, each part of the thesis statement would be a section of the paper) exactly what the sections should say – “In this paper I will …” – “First, I will review evidence, etc., I will then research related to xyz, followed by xyz, potential implications, recommendations based on this research, conclude with xyz” – Roadmap of paper – Sets reader up for paper – Page and a half – How you would divide paper into sections – Make sure it’s clear and is directly related to the sections of the paper.
I – CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM:
a) What is it? Goals? Historical overview. (Briefly explain what is the environment that comports the life of the correctional staff and the inmates, which one was its previous goals and the current situation of the system. Also, how the correctional environment affects the inmate recovery and the officers while in duty).
2 – STAFF & OFFENDERS RELATIONSHIPS:
a) The role of the correctional officers (Explain what is the function of the officers on the correctional system management is, how they are affected by the rules that supposed to achieve the inmate’s recovery. Questions: are the correctional stuff safe and motivated to do their job? What to do?).
b) Inmates perceptions e duties (Explain some ways in which the inmates are directly affected by the correctional system management. Questions: Do the inmates get efficiently recovered under the current conditions of the facilities?).
c) Successful management is up to well trained staff or inmate’s willingness to collaborate? (Explore this subtopic, also, point out some research data if possible. Try to display some numbers).
3 – BESIDES OFFENDERS & OFFICERS RELEVANT INTERACTIONS, WHAT ELSE CAN HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM MANAGENMENTE?
a) Privatization, strengths and weaknesses. (Explain how the privatization affect the ways in which a facility is managed, also, point out the strengths and weaknesses of the privatization. Question: is the privatization a good option for a better management of the correctional facilities?).
b) Overcrowding and the impacts on the management of the facilities. (Explore how the mass incarceration impact the management of the facilities in general, the relationship between officers and inmates).
c) Administration of the financial resources (Look into the financial aspect of the correctional system management. Question: which one is the biggest issue on the matter is “efficient management”; lack of financial resources or inefficient placement of the funds).
4 – CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: SUGGESTIONS FOR KEEPING THE OFFICER’S SAFETY AND ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. (Briefly wrap up what was said so far and rise up some suggestions that can satisfy on the best way the following points: inmates’ recovery, the safety of the correctional staff, also, improvement the facilities management).
• Conclusion: Conclusion, one page and a half, could talk about future areas of research – Wrap up the paper (Conclusion of the research paper need to answering the topic, and mention that that for the community and police relations occur to happen in a good way, it’s suggested that the population need to trust on the police to do their job on the way that they were trained at the academy and on the level that the violence on the streets require them to answer, not on the way that the citizens think that police should act. The police have the academic and practical knowledge of most of the problems, and the population in general just have the outside view. And a suggestion to keep the officers safety is to cover big part of the information related to crimes and other social problems that are difficult to the population understand how possible is complex is to solve or diminish the issue (I’m not say that the officers should lie, but avoid to tell the entire truth).
• Works Cited: (not counted towards the 12-15 pages) – Where you put all the citations.
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