United States have enacted “Megan’s Law”; this requires all convicted sex offenders to register at their local police department and notify their community about what they have done and where they are currently residing. But is it constitutional? Many can that it leaks too much information about the offender’s life. Having this information for the public is very useful and should be used to know the whereabouts of sex offenders. There is a deep and emotional background to the concept of Megan’s
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2007). However‚ they had omitted the disadvantages of the law regarding the inability to reduce the sex offenses as well as the lack of support in finding other ways for the rehabilitation of sex offenders (Schram & Milloy‚ 1995 as cited in Levenson‚ D`Amora‚ & Hern‚ 2007). This law had created a fake sense of security to the public‚ as they would want to know whether there are any sex offenders located in their area in order to protect their children. However‚ research found that it
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impact on all three participants of listening to the distorted cognitions of sex offenders and how they had heard things they would never ‘unhear’ and the struggle of constantly trying to find a way to deal with that. The participants found it particularly hard to hear sex offenders minimising or rationalising their crimes‚ or hearing their total lack of disrespect towards victims. Participant 1 described an offender she was working with who had been grooming young girls online and how‚ in his
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An argument can be made that sex offenders have been marginalized by society by their actions (no judgment is intended here). Therefore‚ should they also be accorded the same benefits that are provided by our Government to our citizenry? A sex offender might make the case that if he or she is employed and paying taxes that they should also be able to benefit from federal or state programs
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future essay would exclude events such as cases of marital abuse or vigilantism as a result of a political injustice in many developing countries‚ the essay would shed some light on the motives of revenge killings and assaults enacted upon released sex offenders. The idea of justice goes back to the current conceptions of punishment within our society as either something that restores the judicial balance or a legally authorized form of revenge. Punitive criminal sanctions follow two different models in
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Legal issues inherent in treatment of sex offenders with the right to refuse mental health treatment is the Fifth Amendment (Adams‚ 1997). The Fifth Amendment give right against self-incrimination and the Fourteen Amendment is regarding the preservation of family integrity (Adams‚ 1997). Some believe mandatory participating is punishment in disguise (Adams‚ 1997). Some mental health treatments can include psychotopic drugs‚ psychosurgery and aversive therapy that could potentially cause irreversible
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order for them to lead a normal life upon their release. I will discuss some of the many programs offered by various states ranging from “Pets in Prison” to obtaining college degrees. I will explain the various types of counseling offered to sex offenders‚ pedophiles and murderers. Those are a few topics I feel should have special interest in the counseling/rehabilitation area. I am sure most would agree that prisoners should receive some type of counseling and rehabilitation‚ but where
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has become enshrined in the offender treatment literature over the last 20 years‚ yet the concept still suffers from a lack of definitional clarity. In particular‚ the umbrella term is often used to refer to offence-supportive attitudes‚ cognitive processing during an offence sequence‚ as well as post-hoc neutralisations or excuses for offending. Of these very different processes‚ the last one might be the most popular and problematic. Treatment programmes for offenders often aim to eliminate excuse-making
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While in the past castration was only in the physical for‚ in today’s society there are two types of castration‚ chemical and physical. Both physical castration and chemical castration have the prospective to decrease the recidivism rates of sex offenders by lowering testosterone hormone levels‚ weaken sexual impulses‚ and making erotic urges more manageable if the sexual urges are encouraged by amplified testosterone hormone levels. Chemical castration is intended to be less invasive and a
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Chemical Castration LaDarius D. Abraham Southern University A&M College Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels‚ not to mention those who have been their victims. Sadly‚ many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders‚ as a class of criminals‚ are nine times more likely to repeat their crimes (Oakes 99). This presents a problem for the public‚ as potential victims
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