Sage Klutts Ainsworth Comp II July 13‚ 2011 Should Sex Offenders Be Castrated? Each year in the United States‚ the crime rate for sex offending rises. There have been several discussions about the way the law should punish the offender‚ such as jail time‚ having to register themselves as sex offenders to even have castration. Jail time might temporarily work‚ but its not completely effective. Registering themselves is still harmful to society. It’s not taking them out of their own game
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five internal factors of the Multifactor Offender Readiness model described by Howell and Day (2007) towards the treatment for high risk offenders. Howell and Day discuss The Multifactor Offender Readiness Model towards the treatment for high risk offenders. They reason that there is an assumption of The Multifactor Offender Readiness model‚ that readiness is a function of both internal (person) factors and external (context) factors. The Multifactor Offender Readiness model identifies five internal
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Lopez‚ and the Zodiac killer killed dozens of people. Eventually the FBI started using a new investigative tool to help catch serial offenders called offender profiling. Profiling has gained popularity in recent years due to popular movies and TV shows like Criminal Minds‚ but is profiling really effective in
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What is a pedophile? A pedophile is a person who has a sustained sexual orientation toward children‚ generally aged 13 or younger‚ Blanchard says. Not all pedophiles are child molesters (or vice versa). "Child molesters are defined by their acts; pedophiles are defined by their desires‚" Blanchard says. "Some pedophiles refrain from sexually approaching any child for their entire lives." But it’s not clear how common that is. Does the medical community consider pedophilia to be a mental
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As I have motivated above I believe that the offender is a power-assertive rapist. And this kind of person is a person who is looking for domination and control. This offender will most likely be self conscious and attack victim who is in the same race and age group as himself. I think the offender will probably be in the same age group as Susan but the offender might be black or hispanic. I do not know Susan´s skin color but she is living in a neighborhood where only 10% are white‚ and therefore
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victim-offender mediation‚ community panels‚ restorative group conferencing‚ and peacemaking circles is provided in order to gain further understanding of the most restorative justice practices‚ and their reputation throughout prisons. Victim-Offender Mediation/Dialogue Although still a rather foreign concept to the criminal justice system‚ victim-offender mediation (VOM) emerged throughout Canada during the late 1980’s in order to provide a face-to-face discussion between victims and offenders (Van
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Sex offender registration is a vital part of the corrections system as it keeps track of those who have committed crimes of a sexual nature against innocent victims. However‚ the sex offender registration system that is in place now has had its own beginning and changed over time to become the system it is today. J. Edgar Hoover‚ who was the director of the FBI in 1937‚ “declared a war on the ‘sexual criminal’ and implored the American people to consider the fact that the ‘sex fiend‚ most loathsome
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Aristotle pioneered the term “Deus ex Machina” as a way to describe the technique as a device to resolve the plot of tragedies (Chondros et al). Although many critics referred to it as in artistic‚ convenient‚ and overly simplistic (Breton)‚ Antiphanes in particular believed any playwright who used the term was unable to properly manage the complications of his plot. “Deus ex Machina” is a common form of Writer Cop Out; it is an outside force that solves a seemingly unsolvable problem in a very unlikely
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Like many states‚ California allows youth offenders as young as 14 to be transferred from the juvenile system to adult courts. In 1996 based on the Frontline Texas study found that juveniles sentenced in adult court did receive longer terms than they would have received in juvenile court. Some people don’t know what they are doing until something bad happens‚ they think parents will always be there to solve the problem. A lot of people go through things that they can’t help and it makes them
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Women Offenders In this article it discusses how the number of women offenders has increased. Based on the self-reports of victims of violence‚ women account for about 14% of violent offenders an annual average of about 2.1 million violent female offenders. Male offending equals about 1 violent offender for every 9 males age 10 or older‚ a per capita rate 6 times that of women. Three out of four violent female offenders committed simple assault. Six to ten women in State prisons had experienced
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