Naming and Shaming Sex Offenders Define: The social issue naming and shaming sex offenders is the worst sex offenders being named and shamed on a website with their picture‚ name‚ address and date of birth on their profile. People can type in the suburb they live in and see what sex offenders live in their area. Argument #1 For: Sex offenders‚ even more so than other forms of crime‚ are prone to re-offending upon release from prison. Therefore‚ to protect society‚ they should be required to
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Capital Punishment Many positions can be defended when debating the issue of capital punishment. In Jonathan Glover’s essay "Executions‚" he maintains that there are three views that a person may have in regard to capital punishment: the retributivist‚ the absolutist‚ and the utilitarian. Although Glover recognizes that both statistical and intuitive evidence cannot validate the benefits of capital punishment‚ he can be considered a utilitarian because he believes that social usefulness is
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Photography is an amazing area of technology and art that was developed throughout the past centuries. Unknown to most people‚ photography like other types of art‚ has been around for centuries. It became well known and used by the masses since the 1800s so it is a relatively new field. It is so amazing how far photography has come; first cameras taking a whole room to take a picture‚ to present times now having cameras that fit into the palm of your hand. The clarity of the photographs has also improved
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Punishing juveniles and guilty parties is intended to teach them a lesson. Distinctive methods of discipline should be utilized based of the history or the seriousness of the crimes. Not every individual child or adult should be confined for specific violations. With the overcrowding of the prison systems and the absence of correctional officers to place in those prison‚ is it possible for an individual to be punished for their wrongdoing with an alternative strategy? There may be numerous recorded
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In the mid to late 1800’s‚ opium was a fairly popular drug on the market. It was the drug of trade and it was even more popular than alcohol. Opium dens sprung up all over and it became a serious problem. The addictive effects became unbearable. By 1874 to a new wonder drug called Heroin was invented to ease those who became addicted to morphine which is a derivative of opium. Heroin was believed to be a safe and non-addictive substitute for morphine. They were wrong and the heroin addict was born
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system was intended to rehabilitate offenders that committed non-serious crimes. Juveniles of today seem to take advantage of this system by committing violent crimes. Juveniles think they might get off easier because they believe they will be tried as juveniles no matter the seriousness of the crime. In the past years there have been laws to protect juvenile delinquents from being prosecuted as adults. There was a rising violent crime rate for juvenile offenders in the late 1980’s and 1990. To
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victim’s family a sense of closure that some kind of punishment has been dealt out to the criminal. Families of victims feel that the criminal should suffer the same fate as the victims. Even the doctrines of the world’s majority religions advocate an eye for an eye‚ a tooth for a tooth. It is believed that the death penalty helps reduce crime rates. For example in Singapore a drug trafficker is sentenced to death no matter the nationality of the offender. This has maintained the crime rates in this country
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I would like to work with Juvenile offenders‚ mainly because I feel that since they make up such a small group of the inmate population‚ 1200 offenders under the age of eighteen at the end of 2013 (p. 245‚ Seiter‚ 2017) that I would have a greater ability to utilize limited resource for a greater outcome. Juvenile offenders in adult incarceration are made up of individuals who have committed serious felony offenses under the age of eighteen (p. 244‚ Seiter‚ 2017). There are three approaches used
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imposed MS must attend Supervision to address his offending behaviour and an Alcohol Treatment Requirement to address his alcohol misuse. The reasons given behind this were that such a sentence would allow him to work with a Probation Officer in respect of the rehabilitation element. This proposal fits neatly with the anti-custody values of the Probation Service whose underlying concern is to deal with offenders in constructive ways which do not damage or degrade them. This is also related to other
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“The policy of diversion of mentally disordered offenders is sound. The problems are in the detail of its scope and application.” Discuss. Diversion is a ‘decision- making process at various stages of the criminal justice system’[1] which enables offenders to avoid being prosecuted‚ imprisoned and punished but alternatively identified and treated in a different way. The treatment of mentally disordered offenders is a controversial area which provokes differences in opinion as to whether they should
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