by Adam Quirk | Jun 26, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Prison, Scholarly Research
Mandatory minimum sentences, three-strike policies, and mass incarceration are buzzwords that are commonly tossed around by many politicians, in particular by those running for President. Many people believe the U.S. needs major reforms in a broken criminal justice...
by Adam Quirk | Apr 22, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Incarceration, Prison, Scholarly Research
Heroin and Oxycontin Epidemic In the United States, it seems as though each generation finds itself mired in one drug epidemic or another. In the 1980’s, the rampant and rapidly spreading use of crack cocaine spurred President Reagan’s war on drugs. The...
by Adam Quirk | Mar 30, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Police, Scholarly Research
To protect and serve: it’s the motto of the brave men and women who choose to be police officers. Last week veteran police detective Jason Weiland was tragically killed in the line of duty, shocking the residents of rural Wisconsin, as well as his fellow law...
by Adam Quirk | Mar 11, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Prison
Today, many human rights organizations in the U.S and around the world are raising concerns about the inordinate use of solitary confinement in prisons, and rightly so. In the U.S alone, more than eight thousand people are being held in some form of solitary...
by Adam Quirk | Feb 11, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Prison, Uncategorized
America has a significant prison population, which is common knowledge throughout the world, but the reasons behind mass incarceration here are something few understand. Most of us recognize that prisons in the United States are full of inmates, but the actual figures...
by Adam Quirk | Jan 29, 2016 | Criminal Justice
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama expressed his views on solitary confinement in an op-ed piece published by The Washington Post. Solitary confinement is the isolation of an inmate, and is often used as a form of punishment against prisoners. The confined are...
by Adam Quirk | Dec 22, 2015 | Criminal Justice, Scholarly Research
An Overview of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) from Adam Quirk
by Adam Quirk | Nov 25, 2015 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice
In 2012, almost 130,00 young people, from ages 18-24 were incarcerated in state and federal prisons, according to the Harvard paper. But not all of these young people are served by the same system. Juvenile delinquents are served by a system, that according to the...
by Adam Quirk | Oct 27, 2015 | Criminal Justice
A fascinating article from the National Review recently dove into a reasonable conservative perspective on the issue of mass incarceration that the United States, more so than any other advanced nation in the world, faces. While it is easy to critique the widely...
by Adam Quirk | Sep 4, 2015 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Scholarly Research
In the following paper written in 2006, Adam Quirk discusses the late Thomas J. Bernard’s thesis on juvenile delinquency after reading Prof. Bernard’s The Cycle of Juvenile Justice (1992). Thomas J. Bernard, who sadly passed away in the summer of 2009,...
