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This 6 page paper discusses the English prison system and compares it to that in the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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U.S. legal system is based on English law, it seems a logical choice to compare Americas corrections with the English system. Discussion Although the two countries share a common language,
a shared heritage and many traditions, they are still substantially different, and those differences are apparent in many facets of life, including the criminal justice systems in both countries. For
one thing, England is geographically slightly smaller than the state of Oregon which means that it doesnt need the huge prison system that operates in the United States (Hirschel, Wakefield
and Sasse, 2007). For another, English society has evolved differently from that in America, in that the rate of violent crime is significantly lower, and gun ownership, which in the
U.S. is estimated to be between 35%-43% of the population, in England is around 4% (Hirschel, Wakefield and Sasse, 2007). These two facts alone make it far easier to police
the population. In addition, the English population is far more homogenous than that found in the U.S., which has a long tradition of immigration (Hirschel, Wakefield and Sasse, 2007). The
immigrants who came to America in such numbers brought their traditions with them, and often included violence in those backgrounds (Hirschel, Wakefield and Sasse, 2007). Type of system/Management: One of
the most important differences between the two countries, and once which has a direct impact on the prison system, is that America is a democracy while England is a parliamentary
system. "the fact that England has a unitary system of government with no separate state and federal systems means that England can have a single national policy on any given
issue and can with relative ease mount coordinated nationwide efforts to combat any problem" (Hirschel, Wakefield and Sasse, 2007, p.22). This means that England has a "single set of laws
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