Introduction 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
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It has long been suspected that sex offenders have lower IQs than non-sex offenders. Studies on the topic go as far back as 80 years. A large number of these studies on the topic of sex offender IQ‚ however‚ use no classification scheme to break down the sex offenses by subcategories‚ such as the age group of victim or age group of the offender. In fact‚ all of the previous studies on the topic of sexual offender IQ lump all subjects into a single‚ heterogeneous sample with no distinguishing
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I believe that all offenders should have to be chemically castrated. Although chemical castration is presented as a humane alternative to lifelong imprisonment or surgical castration‚ the American Civil Liberties Union opposes the coerced administration of any drug‚ including antiandrogen drugs for sex offenders. They argue that forced chemical castration is a "cruel and unusual punishment"‚ and therefore should be constitutionally prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. They also stated that it interfered
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There are various types of crimes that can cause a person to be labeled habitual offenders. Drug possession‚ robbery‚ rape‚ kidnapping‚ and murder are just a few of the crimes that can warrant a misdemeanor or felony charge. The judicial system has proclaimed zero tolerance for these types of criminals; therefore‚ enhancement statutes were placed in effect. “Examples of such statutes would be the Habitual Felons Act‚ RICO‚ the Career Criminal Act‚ mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking in narcotics
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In the article “Remorse‚ Psychopathology‚ and Psychopathy among Adolescent Offenders” by Andrew Spice‚ Jodi Viljoen‚ Kevin Douglas‚ and Stephen Hart‚ the aim is to establish the effects of shame and remorse on young offenders. Previous research doesn’t allow discussion for the implications and differences between the two emotions. The article is meant to link the “bad” guys with the bad feelings; bad is in quotations as these people are deviant‚ but not necessarily bad. In the words of the authors
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an eight year follow up period the Commission found that “almost one-half of federal offenders released in 2005 (49.3%) were rearrested for a new crime or rearrested for a violation of supervision conditions”. DO NOT KNOW HOW TO END THIS.
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Dana L. Sears ITT Technical Institute Online There are many advantages to putting offenders on probation and parole. One advantage is the cost‚ the average inmate costs 20‚000 a year to house‚ and up to 60‚000 in a super max. The cost to keep someone on probation is 3‚400 a year that is a big difference. Another advantage is the space. Prisons are becoming overcrowded very quickly. The offenders that are placed on parole or supervision are generally no violent criminals; they may have had
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Paper 2 Juvenile sex offenders are frequently treated in the same manner as their adult counterparts with regards to punishment and sex offender registering. “Nationally‚ juvenile sex offenders make up 20% of all individuals charged with sexual offenses (McGinnis‚ 2006).” Placing a sex offender label on a juvenile may unjustifiably put restrictions on his or her opportunities in adulthood so it is for this reason that cases involving juvenile sex offenders should be prosecuted cautiously
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Animals Deserve No Rights Summary: Nowadays‚ with an increasing number of reports about animal cruelty coming into the public view‚ an agitation about protecting animal right caught our attention. As far as I ’m concerned‚ quite a few people believe that excluding non-human animals from the range of concern but to include all humans just seems arbitrary and unreasonable. However an overwhelming number of people still share the same idea with me that animals don ’t deserve rights. At first glance
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Capital Punishment Deserves the Death Sentence Capital punishment is a divisive topic in the United States‚ and reconsideration of this practice is a necessity as we progress socially as a nation. Capital punishment is an abysmal act and the fact of the matter is that it is morally wrong for a government to execute its citizens‚ no matter what heinous acts they may have committed. The American government was created to ensure certain rights for all of its citizens‚ based on their societal morals
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