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    Coporal Punishment

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    TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS‚ AMD AND ON DUE PROCESS IMPLEMENTED IN THE SCHOOL Abstract School is an institution for educating and nurturing the development of students. It’s known as their second home and one of the safest places for them to gain knowledge and wisdom thru their educational practises. However‚ for years‚ schools around the world have being practising corporal punishments as a tool for providing education discipline among students. Only recent years‚ countries

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    Crime and Punishment

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    Crime at its simplest is an act prohibited by law upon pain of punishment (Hall-Williams 1964). Theorists such as McCabe (1983:49) stated that no word in legal and criminological terms could define the word crime for the varying content in which an act is categorised. Due to the broad spectrum surrounding crime‚ differing understandings about human subjects and premises lead to the development of several theories‚ assumptions and forms of criminal law. Michael and Adler (1933:2) are often cited

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    Justification of Punishment 1 Justification of Punishment Sociology 120 Derek Goodson April 7‚ 2009 Justification of Punishment 2 There are four different types of punishment that have been put in place over the years in order to deter crime in society; these four types are retribution‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ and societal protection. These four different types of punishment have raised many questions in today’s society. The changes in today’s society have brought into question the effectiveness

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    Female Sex Offenders

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    (1987) and Patton (1987)‚ report on a study of 16 female sexual offenders who were in the Genesis II treatment project in Minnesota. All but one of the women studied were victims of childhood sexual abuse and many were also victims of physical abuse. There were strong and consistent patterns of childhood social isolation‚ alienation‚ and lack of development of interpersonal skills in the women studied. Three categories of female sex offenders were described; the “Teacher/Lover‚” “Predisposed” and “Male-Coerced”

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    1970s Technology Technology in the 1970s‚ although nothing compared to today’s technology‚ greatly impacted the people of that decade. Computers have been just one of many inventions that proved how life was made easier. For example‚ they allowed for work to be done faster and more efficient. Aside from technology‚ a variety of fashion trends were introduced during the 70s. Hot pants and bell bottoms were the most popular fashion trends. The historical‚ political‚ and social events that occurred

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    Justice Model Offenders

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    At first you may be ill at ease when stating that offenders can be victims but it could be difficult to determine the victim and the offender. In the end‚ both could be in the wrong and both could be victims as well. The concept of offenders as victims is complicated. There are multiple ways that factor in this concept‚ such as the use of deadly force when resisting a violent offender. The judge and the jury must decide whether or not deadly force was justifiable. A good example is provided in the

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    Elizabeth Stefanik Research on Sexual Offenders 10/19/17 I completed my search from the Kent stark library at school. To begin conducting a search‚ I typed in “sexual abusers and offenders”. My results were around 256 for articles. To reduce my results‚ I added academic journals for source type and quantitative study for methodology. This knocked my results down to 58. Furthering to refine my results‚ I added women or females or girls. This came down to a whopping 17 results. The two articles

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    The Purposes of Punishment

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    The purposes of punishment. What are the purposes of punishment? Which do you consider to be the most important and why? Student: *********** Student number: ******* Tutor name: ************* Hand-in date: 21st of November 2011 To begin with‚ it is necessary to say that punishment is an integral part of modern countries’ legal systems‚ because countries have a duty to protect society from wrongdoers and authorities could reach success in it by punishing offenders. Oxford English

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    Corrections and Treatment

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    CORRECTIONS AND TREATMENT There is a wide choice of correctional treatments available for juveniles‚ which can be subdivided into two major categories‚ which are community treatment and institutional treatment. Community treatment refers to efforts to provide care‚ protection‚ and treatment for juveniles in need. Institutional treatment facilities are correctional centers operated by federal‚ state‚ and county governments. These facilities restrict the movement of residents through staff monitoring

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    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Capital Punishment by definition is “a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime”. When looking at the death penalty system in action‚ we can clearly see that the only purpose it serves is retribution or revenge; it is seriously flawed in application. The flaw that is presented is that there is a serious and continuing risk of executing innocent people. And‚ it costs much more than life in prison. If we look at the statistics‚ about

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