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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because the lack of treatment for the offender. He supports his claim by pointing out that Megan’s killer had been incarcarated twice for the same offense and released due to completion of sentence and not because he received treatment for his actions. Pallone argues that the prosecutor‚ the defense attorney‚ and the presiding judge was only interested in saving the state more expenses of a trial. As a professor of psychology and an editor of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitaion‚ Pallone has served
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In this chapter‚ the author talks about approaches that allow the victim and offender to meet. One of the approaches is the Victim-offender mediation programs (VOMs). In this type of program‚ the offender and victim are given the opportunity to work out their issues in a conducive environment. The goal of this program is to empower participants‚ promote discussion‚ and encourage compromise. In addition to that‚ there are three basic objectives that come with these meetings: identifying the injustice
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Sex Offenders: Release into Society As sex offenders are being released back into society‚ our sex offender registry laws must be revisited to ensure the safety of our communities. There are more than 650‚000 registered sex offenders living among us in the United States today‚ but some of these are juveniles that are labeled sex offenders and should fall under a different category because their sexual behaviors were consensual (Belkin 2011). Sex offenders should be required to register as a sex
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During the mid-1990s‚ sex offenders have been required to provide many personal details—name‚ age‚ address‚ phone number—to both the police and the general community in which they live; however since the invention of the internet‚ many sex offenders’ information has been spread across the Internet which then goes across the country and even the world. While majority of court cases may be viewed by the public on the Internet‚ the sex offender registries make it like a giant‚ neon sign that screams
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Brown October 10‚ 2007 Laura Janick Sex Offender Restrictions: Rules They Live Must Follow The Georgia sex offenders laws are unfair and distorted in that they treat all sex offenders equally without considering the sex crime. This problem needs to be addressed because people who are not violent offenders are being treated as such by Georgia laws and Bills such as House Bill 1059. For example‚ I have a good friend on the Georgia sex offender list. He is on the list for having inappropriate
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Page 1 Correctional System and the Rehabilitating Offenders Page 2 The correctional system has a way of punishing offenders in this country unlike in different countries where you might get a harsher punishment for a crime that might seem more‚ petty and a lesser punishment for a crime that one would consider more of a harsher crime. In our system however
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Sex offenders are the most stigmatized criminals in the nation today. Society has a conjured up image of what a sex offender looks like and acts like. A male who’s a stranger‚ with bottle glass glasses‚ a pencil mustache‚ comb over hair‚ and a demeanor about him that projects just plain creepy; and possibly worst of all‚ a man who fondles/molests children. With a luruid image like that‚ everyone could agree‚ that a sex offender is someone who we wouldn’t want in our neighborhoods‚ around our children
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“On average‚ there are 288‚820 victims (age 12 or older) of rape each year in the United States” (RAINN). Many of these attackers are often known as sex offenders or rapists. Imagine having to wake up everyday dealing with the physical‚ emotional‚ and psychological consequences of being raped. The sex offenders or rapists’ who attacked you have to now go through a legal process and will be put onto a registry. Unfortunately‚ this legal process could take many months‚ and even worse is that several
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