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 | 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...
