(Herman‚ 56). This is what victims go through when they are sexually assaulted; they are traumatized‚ scarred‚ and silenced and they feel so insecure because sex offenders continue to commit rape on more and more people everyday. More importantly‚ the cause of all this is due to the lack of efficiency in the treatments available for the offenders. Some of the treatments include castration‚ pharmaceutical prescriptions‚ and psychological treatments all of which contain flaws. Whether it’s ineffectively
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Young Offenders Act in Canada The subject of young offenders in our troubled society has been one that has generated many hours of thought and meditation for concerned members. It is felt by many that the change needed in the area of delinquency within the First Nations culture is to overcome the effects of colonization and this must begin with the youth. It is with the youth that the future of the culture lies. There has been extensive research done in this area and although much of the material
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| Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders | | | | | Sexual violence in the United Stated has become a significant problem over the past decade. Besides being a health problem for the individual‚ it is a crime that every State punishes in accordance to their laws. In an effort to decrease the incidents of sexual assault‚ many states and legislators have passed laws geared towards reducing recidivism among convicted sex offenders. As a result‚ sex offenders living in the United States are
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justice system for juveniles‚ others have proven otherwise. There are separate justice systems for juvenile and adult offenders because of the belief that the mind of juveniles can be reformed unlike adult offenders. However‚ the juvenile justice system is similar to the adult justice system in many ways. In terms of the rights of the offenders‚ both juvenile and adult offenders have the right to an attorney‚ the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses‚ the right to protection against self-incrimination
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The new Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act (2003) In Queensland permits prisoners to be kept in prison beyond their release date where a court finds that there is a high degree of probability’ that they represent a serious danger to the community’. Other jurisdictions have enacted similar legislation to restrict the release of prisoners assessed to be dangerous. Do you think that dangerousness legislation of this sort is justified or unjustified? Several states across the Country have
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Sex offender registration was largely brought out as a means of increasing public awareness of sex offenders to support community safety. According to Sage Journals (2005)‚ records of 121 registered sex offenders in Kentucky showed that‚ “social stigmatization‚ loss of relationships‚ employment‚ and housing‚ and both verbal and physical assaults are experienced by a significant minority of registered sex offenders." Sex offender registration is publicly accessible
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have chosen to do my final project writing assignment on female offenders. Today‚ females are the fastest growing offenders of the prison population. Some of the attributing factors to this increase in female prison population is an increase in violent behavior by females‚ increased substance abuse and an increased awareness by law enforcement toward female offenders. Female offenders may have many differences from male offenders in their risks and needs while in the system however they share
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do their duty. Problems that they run into are not wanting to deal with sex offenders. Their goal needs to be that a sex offender is under watch‚ and it would be officer’s job to protect the community. An ethical perspective would be that are duty is to serve and protect even though at times you don’t feel like it you still have to what is best for the people in the community by protecting them‚ and monitoring sex offenders. We know that a deontologist view is to know the intent of the action. As a
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I don’t know how effective my method would be‚ but I would use statics and survivors of pedophiles/ sex offenders to add validity to my argument. I would state that pedophiles/ sex offenders is a widespread pandemic and we must assume a get tougher mentality in order to reduce the number of children being seeing as prey by adults. In 2012 the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Criminal Victimization Survey‚ reported that 346‚830 children 12 years or older fell victim to rapes or some form of
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question is not black or white‚ there are multiple factors that must be considered when assessing if child sex offenders can be rehabilitated. There are different types of offenders‚ which is an important factor when determining if one can be rehabilitated. I agree with the researchers that have suggested violent‚ sociopath offenders cannot be rehabilitated‚ and paraphilia type offenders that include pedophilia‚ voyeurism‚ fetishism‚ exhibitionism‚ etc. may be able to be rehabilitated. It was mentioned
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