Jones, Patrick
Summary: Looks at the issue of teenage incarceration and introduces the stories of former teen incarcerees who have turned their lives around.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 JONSummary: In Utah, a local gang has drawn the ire of larger, national gangs. But these homegrown thugs aren't small-timers. Their brand of gang loyalty is so extreme that membership passes from generation to generation, and their yen for feuds and conflict has now spilled into Utah State Prison. Over 25 percent of its 4,000-plus inmates have gang ties, and the most active gangsters flaunt weapons, shed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Every day the Portland Police dragnet pulls in more thieves, drug dealers, and addicts from the most populated county in the state of Oregon. This program goes inside the Portland jail, which isn't just running out of room-it ran out a long time ago. With approximately 3,500 new bookings per month, or more than 100 bookings per day, the 700-capacity center lacks the space, the staff, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Like it or not, humans are adept at the art of lying. Drawing upon the fields of psychology, sociology, technology, philosophy, and criminology, this program sheds light on the complex realities of untruthfulness through the work of researchers who have made lying a subject of profound study: Professor Bella DePaulo, an expert on the communication of deception; Professor Maureen O'Sullivan, an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Car thief, heroin addict, drug dealer-how can a person escape a life like that? This ABC News program examines the life-changing friendship between Merrill "The Doctor" Jackson and the Rev. Joann Muller-the first, a criminal from the streets of Philadelphia; the second, a Christian minister determined to change him. Using intimate interviews and footage of crime-infested neighborhoods, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In the future, brain scans could be used to assess a child's potential for violence-and to decide if that child should be kept apart from the public, even when he or she has never hurt anyone. Should neurologists and behavioral psychologists have that much power? This program explores the issue with a compelling dramatized story, showing just how a combination of medical expertise and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: How much faith do we really place in the institutions that settle our disputes and, at times, determine the fate of individuals? Are there other ways of finding a proper outcome besides the Western system of courts and prisons? Does might make right, and-even if the answer is no-has any society on the planet created a true alternative? This program looks at concepts of justice in various...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hakim Bey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Autonomedia 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 HAKSummary: Award-winning director Lance Tracy balances serious science with tongue-in-cheek humor to create a documentary scrutinizing the scope and effects of pornography that is informative, compelling, and unsettling. Constructing an experiment to identify attitudinal and behavioral changes that manifest as a result of viewing porn—a study in the manner of the Annenberg School of Communications and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Both the painkilling and pleasurable effects of opium have been known in ancient cultures around the world for millennia. The narcotic arrived in the U.S. with the first Chinese immigrants, but it wasn't until the invention of the hypodermic syringe during the Civil War that opiates infiltrated American society in the same dual role. This program looks at the history of opium's use and misuse,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Whether following stated procedures or complying with implicit rules of conduct, modern humans willingly modify their behavior dozens of times each day. In this program, the conformity necessary for mass interactions and the flexibility required to learn and use the behaviors of conformity are investigated. In addition to conventions such as air travel protocol and museum manners, instances of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When other California prisons can't handle their most violent gang members, they send them to Pelican Bay State Prison. This program takes viewers inside the notorious facility. From here, leaders of gangs such as Nuestra Familia, the Mexican Mafia, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerillas, and the Nazi Low Riders smuggle orders to lieutenants on the streets. These operatives, in turn, handle...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Located in the California desert, Ironwood Correctional Facility is a series of extremes. This program explores the overcrowded, understaffed prison, which is subject to brutally hot summers and powder-keg tensions. But a group of inmates among the population of 4,800 are dedicated to self-improvement, attending classes in the face of menacing opposition from gang members. When riots erupt in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The forms of punishment a society chooses, and what exactly it deems a crime, tell a great deal about that society's values. How is justice pursued and punishment meted out? This program looks at the history of punishment, beginning with early compensatory forms of justice, Hammurabi's Code, and the Law of Moses. Socrates' execution and Roman and medieval forms of justice are analyzed in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Is a humane and painless execution method possible, and if so, would death penalty proponents support its use? Or is pain the whole idea? Examining what many see as the cruelty of current procedures, this program searches for a viable alternative. Experts in the death business-retired executioners, toxicologists, biomechanics specialists, and others-explain disturbing flaws in the use of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 2005, approximately half a million mentally ill men and women were serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and wardens became the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of a burgeoning population, they raised a troubling new concern: have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums? With exclusive and unprecedented access to prison therapy sessions, mental health...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This poignant program deftly captures the hope and heartbreak of three men struggling to put drug addiction behind them and regain the lost trust of their loved ones. Completion of a closely monitored court-ordered drug treatment plan is their ticket back to life on the outside, and they are staking their futures on it.but only two succeed. Interviews with the recovering addicts and their...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What is the cost to society for making certain personal choices-those considered by many to be immoral or ill-advised-a crime? And how is the concept of individual liberty affected when the force of public censure is replaced by the force of law? In this program, ABC News anchor John Stossel studies this extremely complex and volatile subject, searching for mid-ground between the left and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Winston Churchill said that democracy is "the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others. Although the state has taken many forms throughout history, some consider it not a protector of its citizens and their freedoms, but a fetter on their liberty. This program provides a historical overview of the myriad forms of government that have existed and their organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The drug lords of Afghanistan sell their goods packaged, branded, and labeled with guarantees, mimicking the marketing of legal forms of opiates. Yet legitimate drug companies themselves face censure for aggressively promoting addictive opiate-based medicine. This program exposes the business of opium, whether distributed legally or smuggled from Afghanistan, examining its economic importance,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Facing severe understaffing and overcrowding, Wyoming State Penitentiary has gone to extreme measures, enlisting prospective officers from economically depressed areas across the United States. Unfortunately, these raw recruits tend to have one thing in common: a complete lack of law-enforcement experience. This program follows three new hires into the crucible where they face the challenges of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: “What are the rules of behavior? Do people not know, or do they not care?” In this program, host Valerie Pringle explores the reasons behind the ostensible breakdown of manners, defined as treating others with consideration, within the group known as Generation Me. Etiquette experts, such as Judith Martin (or Miss Manners), author Lynne Truss, and Johns Hopkins University professor P. M. Forni,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: It's been estimated that there are over 100 different types of lie-some good, some bad, some pure evil. Although lying is universal, it may be the most poorly understood of all human traits. In this program, psychologist John Marsden attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding deception and identify its cues in body language and facial expression. Dr. Marsden interviews Donald Bickerstaff, a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007