Canine Benefits in Criminal Justice Crju 3100 - Colorado Correctional Industries

Jordy Marquez

Dr. Dwight

CRJU 3100

The Colorado Correctional Industries main goal is to reduce recidivism in the united states and today we will be conducting a survey to figure out as to how integrated your pet has become in your household and how assimilated your canine is around the company of the open public.

• How often does your canine leave the house, and when taken on walks, how would you describe his reaction to other animals?

• Would you consider your canine to be a social with other pets? If so, how is their reaction with other dogs versus other animals.

• How large is your family household?

• When first brought into the household, what were the dogs first reactions of meeting the family, how docile was the canine?

• Does your canine care to explore its surroundings? Would you consider the canine to be territorial?

• Have your canine’s eating/sleeping habits changed since his first arrival?

During this process, we will be examining the similarities and differences of the canine involved in this experiment. Being the animal has been subjected to long periods of segregation, we want to further research what the affects of being confined to one cell 23 hours a day; if any has caused on the animal. We would expect the social aspect question of the canine to be most consistent and reliable because the personality of the canine will always remain and depending on how assimilated the dog is in the free world. Which will cause different emotional distress within the canine’s day to day life.  A canine’s depression symptoms are much like a human, their eating and sleeping habits will change and they will become less and less active. Close examination of the canine from its first arrival can cause reliable data in which emotional status would be a key tool of measurement. We want to further comprehend what are the feelings and responses of the canine and its separation from the outside world. Could there be a relation to depression and separation of freedom within a canine’s mind? Would sticking a dog in a room with one partner have any affect on the dog whether it may be its social comfort or its emotional health. Further research into the animals eating and sleeping habits would be considered to further explain the comparison of emotional health of the canine itself. Emotional status of the family is priority but yet we can not ignore the fact that these canines could be affected by the experiment itself. We can clarify and measure different instances of emotional distress and compare to other times and in a chronological timeline we could further compare and contrast examples of emotional status of the canine.