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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justifications and arguments for doing so. It will also critically discuss the Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) model‚ which at this point in time is the leading model of offender rehabilitation. Exploring its strengths‚ weaknesses‚ theoretical underpinnings and possible alternative approaches for reducing recidivism‚ encouraging positive change in offenders and creating safer communities all over the world.
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Juvenile Offenders Should Be Rehabilitated Out of the 100‚000 juvenile offenders released every year in the United States‚ a large percentage of them have drug and/or mental health problems according to the Department of Justice. Another study done by the Department of Justice also showed that about 82% of these juvenile offenders were arrested again within 3 years. The criminal justice system should rehabilitate juvenile offenders instead of treating them like the adult offenders and locking
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Female educators as sex offenders has been slowly coming into research. Female teachers sexually abusing high school students has become a concern over the years. Even though we hear about male teachers as predators and less about female teachers‚ does not mean it does not exist. This belief is due to male students not reporting the problem as much as female students. Female offenders go unnoticed because of the way they interact with their daily routines. Females are considered to be the nurturing
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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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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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