{"id":184253,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/why-so-many-inmates"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:06:16","slug":"why-so-many-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/why-so-many-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So Many Inmates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have studied the police, the courts, and corrections, let\u2019s listen to Dr Wellford, UMCP, and Dr. Sondervan, UMUC, discuss&nbsp;why there are so many people in prisons.&nbsp; Some of you touched on this topic in the previous discussions.&nbsp; Let\u2019s take a closer look at this challenging subject.<br \/> Watch three short videos&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.umuc.edu\/d2l\/common\/dialogs\/quickLink\/quickLink.d2l?ou=156583&amp;type=content&amp;rcode=UMUC-1009510\">Wellford, Locke, Gambrills and Sondervan \u2013 4.2<\/a> (or google the videos)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The videos will lead us to questions we should all think about.&nbsp; Choose two of the following questions to answer:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Does Wellford believe that the fact that the United States has a large prison population has led to decreased crime? Explain.<\/li>\n<li>Wellford suggests applying a cost-benefit analysis to the high level of incarceration. What are the conclusions of such an analysis?<\/li>\n<li>Why don\u2019t we get more crime prevention from our policies, according to Wellford? What is Wellford\u2019s solution? Do you agree with it or not?<\/li>\n<li>Summarize the trends that Sondervan mentions. Did anything surprise you? What and why?<\/li>\n<li>What separates the United States from other countries in terms of incarceration rates? What\u2019s your opinion about this fact?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have studied the police, the courts, and corrections, let\u2019s listen to Dr Wellford, UMCP, and Dr. Sondervan, UMUC, discuss&nbsp;why there are so many people in prisons.&nbsp; Some of you touched on this topic in the previous discussions.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/why-so-many-inmates\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}