Correctional Health Care, Correctional Education, and Correctional Sex Offender Programs are just a few practices to name. Correctional Mental Health is one practice that will be discussed in depth in this case study. Mental Health alone includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It too helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Mental Health in corrections is a very affective issue that is steadily growing within the correctional system. In this essay, I will provide a description of the program, the elements that lead to the success of the program, and the program structure and design that provide for an effective and successful correctional…
One emergent sub-theme to arise for all participants was the importance and significance of the connection between working with both victims and sex offenders, as they believed it provided a true representation and an overall interconnecting picture, “you get the balance, you get the full sort of picture or you get the full experience or impact from both parties so you don’t become too skewed in a way”.…
The following annotated bibliography provides peer reviewed articles surrounding the topic of juvenile sex offenders (JSO) and treatment to reduce recidivism rates. The terms juvenile sex offender and adolescent sex offenders (ASO) are used interchangeably. The treatment provided below is of Multisystemic Therapy (MST). MST is a family focused, community-based treatment that literature has proven to be significantly effective. The articles below will touch upon the efficacy of MST on JSO’s and nonsexual juvenile offenders, advantages and disadvantages of MST, and the implications on practice. The undersigned has significant interest in this population due to society’s assumptions that this population is specialized and requires specialized…
Sex crimes in Tennessee are offenses that the public does not tolerate .These crimes are viewed as…
ADJ 235 presents the ethical standards, roles, and responsibilities of criminal justice professionals and examines potential profession-specific ethical dilemmas. Ethical theories are applied to real and hypothetical scenarios in the justice system.…
Ethical considerations could be a concern for law enforcement officers moving forward into the future. Officers obviously have a desire to be ethical and do their job with the utmost morale possible, however the dilemmas they face to catch criminals and remain as ethical as possible is difficult. Off duty behavior, brutality, and corruption are big concerns now and for the future. People who regulate the law often find themselves needing to bend or break the law. More often than not, their fellow law enforcement officers will treat them with a lighter punishment or give no punishment at all because of their association with the governing association (Writing, 2014)…
Keeping labeling theory in mind, does sex registration (of convicted sex offenders) serve the public interests, and or does this labeling process do more harm than good? Pls fully explain and defend your views.…
The issues are: use of authority, relationship between personal and professional interest, commitments to clients, criminal justice and public policy, results of policing policies, information sharing, human rights issues, and media reporting. “in order to illustrate the relevance of the study of ethics to the criminal justice system, a number of specific ethical problems and issues that might arise for professionals in the criminal justice system are set out in the following sections. These problems and issues might be concerned with how to exercise authority, with how to deal with conflicts between the personal and the professional, or with the ethical issues confined within ne articular part of the system, such as juvenile justice” (Chauhan & Srivastava,…
The sex offender registry has been a topic of debates and formal studies since the Minnesota Sex Offender Registration Act was first passed in 1991 (Stevens, n.d.). The use of the sex offender registry has been saving lives of potential victims. Before the registry was enacted, sex offenders who lived in their neighborhood victimized adults and children and no one knew about their prior criminal history. In very public cases, it was brought to light that children were being abducted, sexually assaulted, and finally murdered by sex offenders that should have been registered. Those children could have been kept safe and may still be alive today if the public knew the information about their attackers. Also the surviving victims of sexual abuse…
Sexual violence, especially involving small children, is a horrible crime and the worst nightmare of every parent. While every personal story of such violations is heart-breaking, it is important to examine how the entire American public is affected by inconsistent political action in defining sexual offences. Hence, in order to approach the dilemma that faces many individuals about what defines a sexual offender, it is essential that we examine the current sex offender law definitions and the reform needed to resolve the challenges of proper sex offender classification.…
Protecting Children From Being Solicited By Convicted Sex Offenders On The Internet: The Need For A Federal Mandate…
Canada has a instituted a sex offenders registry, like in United States of America, called Sex Offender Information Registration Act, in 2004. An act that requires sex offenders to register information for the reason being, that it supports the police in preventing and investigating sexual offences (Antonacci, 2013, pg. 121). The sex offender registry is a bit different than in United States of America where it is viewable to the public. Here in Canada it is only available to the RCMP.…
Who are adolescent sex offenders? In its basic and most simple form adolescent sex offenders could be defined as any juvenile male or female, approximately between the ages of 12 and 17 years of age who commit any sexual act with another person, unlawfully against that persons will, regardless of age limit. Research has suggested that adolescent sexual offenders are also embedded in multiple systems (family, peer, school) in which dysfunctional transactions are rather evident. There is also a general consensus that adolescent sexual offenders have difficulty maintaining close interpersonal relations and are isolated from their peers. Finally, a relatively high percentage of adolescent sexual offenders evidence behavioral…
“Sex offenders are the scourge of modern America, the ‘irredeemable monsters’ who prey on the innocent” (Logan, 1999, p.1167). The colossal number of sex crimes is rapidly expanding across the United States and with it a wake of innocent victims. This expansion and increased victimization called for reform and demanded protection for the innocent. This protection came in the form of a new criminal justice policy, the sex offender registration.…
In the state of Georgia the regulation that covers the registration of sex offenders is O.C.G.A 42-1-12 (.…