children being involved with sex; Now on child abuse cases‚ I believe that no single act such strong emotions as the act of child sexual abuse. Child molesters can not even find refuge in prisons where rapist and murderers are commonplace. These offenders are shut out in aspect of our society‚ yet there are no reasons as to the causes of this behavior. Sexual abuse of children is not new‚ and has not always been socially taboo. Back in the days it was a commonplace for adolescent males to be forced
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Task Four Outline the power of the courts in sentencing offenders by using one example of a summary offence and indictable offence. There are two main courts - Magistrates and Crown Court. Magistrates have less power than Crown. magistrates can sentence up to six months in custody. Crown Courts can sentence longer up to life in prison. An indictable offence is one tried by a jury in the Crown court. When a magistrates court feels that the offence is so serious they cannot sentence accordingly i/e
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Zona Seca Youth Offenders Program To be honest‚ I was really pissed off that I had to enter the Zona Seca program to begin with. My so-called infraction was a simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am a full time student who works at least twenty-eight hours a week and is extremely pressed for time. The commute from Los Angeles was an extreme inconvenience. Just had to get that off my chest. Do not be fooled‚ I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend this program
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While offender profiling is a significant part of the criminal justice system the exact definition of this practice tends to vary from source to source‚ overall the general consensus is that it is “an investigative technique by which to identify the major personality and behavioral characteristics of the offender based upon an analysis of the crime(s) he or she has committed” (FBI‚ 1998). Although having grown in popularity in the recent decades profiling criminals based on behavior patterns is
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have serious consequences such as incarceration due to crimes‚ but the ones that do tend to never help reduce the amount of offenders in the U.S. The juvenile justice system’s main goal is rehabilitation for all youth‚ but research and many studies have been carried out in order to describe what the system is doing wrong and what problems need to be resolved. Juvenile offenders should be placed in rehabilitative programs because punitive programs are counterproductive and therefore juvenile procedures
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Gangs Data on Gangs How do you know who is a gang member? - What is a gang? group of members that have a common deviant values group of members that engage in delinquency for self gains though‚ difficult to defining what is a gang because peer groups in general are central to youthful activities people hang out in groups common feature to see adolescent to engage in groups hence‚ a gang comprise primarily young males‚ engage in behaviour from outright criminality to graffiti. Females
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Offender profiling also known as criminal profiling is based on the principle that the characteristics of an offender can be worked out by examining the characteristics of their offences. As Ainsworth (2001) puts it‚ “profiling generally refers to the process of using all the available information about a crime‚ a crime scene‚ and a victim in order to compose a profile of the (as yet) unknown perpetrator.” Eye witness testimony refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed
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4/20/11 Crime & Delinquency Dr. Shirley I. Williams Term Paper Juvenile Sexual Offender As we all know‚ throughout the years‚ we’ve heard of many sad stories of juvenile sex offenders ad offenses. So what is a juvenile sex offender? “A juvenile sex offender is defined as a youth‚ from puberty to the legal age of majority‚ who commits any sexual act with a person of any age‚ against the victims will‚ without consent
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Marshall et al. seemed to only be treating those that are convicted sexual offenders there was never any mention of non-offending paraphilias that go through treatment. They decided to focus their study on sexual offenders because they found in their research that that since other paraphilics and sexual offenders were thought to be so similar‚ they would also go through the treatment process the same way. By focusing on sexual offenders‚ the DSM IV’s reliability for diagnosing paraphilias is questioned
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The criminal justice system uses unique policies and programs to address the difficulties associated with dealing with young offenders. It is widely accepted by the international and Australian standards that children and young offenders should be subject to an alternate criminal justice system than adults‚ which identifies and recognizes their inexperience and irresponsibility. “Best interests of the child” (CROC article 3). In NSW‚ daily there are over 500 under 18s incarcerated in juvenile institutions
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