DIn recent years a coercive criminal justice policy has been promoted as the appropriate response to control and deter perpetrators of domestic violence. However, recent literature and research on domestic violence has questioned the underlying assumption that the criminal justice system is always the most effective and appropriate response to domestic violence (Steward, 2001, pg. 448). In this essay the notion of domestic violence will be discussed, and what implementations as a result of the criminal justice system response have been introduce to address and therefore eliminate the problem of domestic violence within society. This point of the article will focused on how the criminal justice system response to domestic violence and will also discuss the strengths and weakness of this response to domestic violence.
Kunstler’s argument is in order to avoid disaster in America we must rethink and reorganize the way we live our daily lives. In paragraph one Kunstler uses ethos when he writes “This is just another symptom of the delusional thinking that now grips the nation, especially among the educated and well- intentioned.” He writes this hoping he can show us that Americans brain wash themselves into thinking everything going to be alright and therefore we must rethink the way interpret problems, we as Americans cannot ignore the outside world, we must take everything into account and see how it effects our daily lives. Another point in the essay where Kunstler uses ethos is in paragraph two where he states “The public and the mainstream media misunderstands the peak oil story.” Kustler is stating that no one really understands the oil crises in America, whatever mainstream explanations are presented to us are not fully accurate. It is up to us to find out for ourselves and understand what is happening in the world around us. Therefore another way to avoid disaster in America would be to better inform ourselves and not believe everything presented to us by the mainstream media.
Date: 15th December, 2011 Working with Children, Families and Carers The purpose of this assignment is to critically discuss the system surrounding resistant families and how social work practice has been evolved to cope with the barriers faced by social workers and other professionals in every day practice with resistant families. The assignment will try to navigate the reader through many different skills developed, social work theories, policy and legislation guidelines and finally, this assignment will try to overview the actions which could be taken throughout an intervention with a resistant family. The main area of focus will reflect upon the document Effective practice to protect children living in ‘highly resistant’ families. (C4EO, 2010). It is essential that the term 'Highly Resistant' is defined at this stage as it will give the reader an understanding of its true meaning to professionals involved with working with this group.
The Youth Justice Board, one of the major bodies involved in working with youth offenders, state that they are “working to prevent offending and reoffending by children and young people under the age of 18” (Justice, 2012). So for the purpose of this essay, ‘youth offending’ will be used to refer to the criminal behaviours of those people under the age of eighteen. Risk factors are used to predict a likelihood of a young person offending and therefore identifying opportunities for intervention. In order to successfully do this, all aspects of a young person’s life can be examined for potential risk factors. For this reason, risk factors often fall into one of several key
Through the correction function of juvenile court system, young offenders are influenced to realize their potential by helping them to build acceptable vocational and interpersonal skills. Over the years, the juvenile justice system in the United States have been facing a major challenge trying to balance between punishments and transforming the behavior of young offenders (Heiss, 2006). The juvenile justice system has two divergent philosophies the conservative and liberal philosophies. The conservative philosophy is based on the premise of retribution. Retribution helps to remove offenders from the society through incarceration.
Furthermore, the law will be discussed in regards to two major criminological theories; labeling theory and social disorganisation theory. The overall principles for such laws are to increase the public’s ability to protect itself from sexual offenders, especially sexual offences against children. Furthermore, the laws aim to provide the community with information about convicted sex offenders in order to protect the children from sexual abuse, but also to assist with monitoring those who are
Educators and parents must address this problem as early as preschool (O’Rourke, 2008). Morine (2009) stated that adults should teach conflict resolution sills to help children manage relationships. Anthony and Lindert (2010) explained that observing, connecting, guiding, and supporting children experiencing relational aggression may be useful for adults who are helping children navigate relational aggression. Additionally, educators should empower bystanders to intervene when they witness bullying behaviors. Children must know that it is important for them to help when their peers are being bullied (Swearer, Turner, Givens, & Pollack, 2008).
As a social worker, I must take control of the surrounding community and help them to understand the dangers and effects of child trafficking. Whether they are being sold for sex, working hard and long hours for little to no pay or being forced to kill, no child should have to suffer being trafficked. There should be more organizations that can talk to communities and teach them how to spot out victims and teach their children or young family members how to spot out and stay away from the
For example, although psychologists or any professional must maintain client confidentiality, they may break this confidentiality if a client reports that a child is being abused. Medical practitioners, psychologists, police officers, social workers, welfare workers, teachers, and principals are all mandatory reporters. Several states have broadened the list of mandatory reporters to any person suspecting abuse (Healthyplace.com, 2000). When a report of abuse is disclosed to a person there is a legal responsibility to report the abuse to proper authorities such as the police or Child Protective Services. Scenario: Jane Doe is a wife and mother of three children.
Adults can speak to the young children and let them know what’s right from wrong considering our young children are the ones being targeting when it comes to gun play as well as violence. Our young children have the power to prevent violence, so if we speak up it will help our community safer for our family, friends and as well as ourselves. Another solution in which we could try is to arm the community with knowledge. Let’s find the right person with the right knowledge that will be willing to educate the community on gun violence. People such as local police officers, school teachers, local officials, and or other community-based organizations that will be willing to provide us with the resources we need to fix the problem or at least try to fix the problem.