As the terminology suggests, it represents an attempt to keep those with sexual abuse propensities from having easy access to potential victims; in other words, to corral them for the purposes of control and security. Containment programs exist full-bore in such States as Colorado, Pennsylvania, and California. Other States are looking at or organizing their own versions of such programs. One authority on containment models for sexual offenders is Jeremy Travis of the National Institute of Justice. He lays out the general concept thusly: The model process seeks to contain offenders in a triangle of supervision: treatment to teach sex offenders to develop internal control over deviant thoughts; supervision and surveillance to control offenders' external behaviors; and polygraph examinations to help design, and to monitor conformance to, treatment plans and supervision conditions (Travis, 1997).
Assignment 204 – Task B Research and account. I am basing my research and account on two reports. My choices are: Winterborne View Care Home, Bristol and Hillcroft Care Home, Lancashire Winterborne View Care Home, Bristol - Research Hundreds of cases of violent abuse were ignored by authorities. Learning disability sufferers complained that they were being beaten, kicked, slapped, taunted and needlessly restrained by staff at Winterbourne View Care home Residents within the Winterborne View Care home had been taken into A&E over 76 times in 3 years, in which medics were not alerted to contact authorities. A serious case review found that patients and families complaints were wrongly ignored by care firm Castlebeck, health watchdogs, the NHS, the police and South Gloucestershire council.
Society argues that criminals should be punished with lengthy jail terms for the security of society. However, the outcome of this objective would allow the offender to return back into society so that he/she can become a productive citizen. Moreover, offenders are given the opportunity to gain rehabilitation and education while they are incarcerated. This result brings up another question. Is the justice
On a yearly basis, 12 million black men and women cycle in and out of nearly 3500 jails and prison (McKinnon & Bennett, 2005). In 2008, 785,556 individuals were incarcerated at midyear, up from an average of daily population of 403,000 in 1990. Of the 2008 population, 42.5% were white men and 39% were black men, even though of the total U.S. population only about 6% were black men while 28% were white men (McKinnon & Bennett, 2005). Socio-economic status is a major factor in recidivism among the homeless mentally ill population (Solomon and Draine, 1995). Many mentally ill ex-offenders have limited resources prior to going to prison and upon release.
In this case the Court confirmed that the special measure provisions of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 were compatible with Article 6(3)(d) of the Human Rights Act 1998 so long as they are employed legitimately to protect vulnerable witnesses (in that case, a child). This case confirms that where the legitimate interests of a vulnerable witness come up against the right of a criminal defendant under Article 6, the former will usually, if not always, prevail. Conclusions to this research. In answer to the question, has the law of criminal evidence managed to strike an appropriate balance between protecting the victims of sexual assault, who are usually the prime witnesses in prosecution proceedings, and protecting the Article 6 rights of defendants charged with these crimes, in particular the right to properly test the evidence which has been admitted against them, this author presents the following assertions: (1) The video-based special measures considered in this paper do not manage to discharge adequately the barriers which are faced by rape and sexual assault victims and are not having the effect of increasing rates or reporting and conviction for these types of offence. For these measures to be effective they would have to circumvent altogether the adversarial
National Child Protection Clearing House 2004), two studies have found that being a victim of physical abuse is a significant predictor of violent offending for females but not for males (Herrera & McCloskey 2001; Widom & Maxfield 2001). While the effects of physical abuse have been comprehensively examined among a range of samples, there are few studies examining its
Juvenile justice can be defined as the sector of the law applicable to persons not of legal age. Complying with the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child, the juvenile justice system aims to combine the welfare and justice approaches to youth crime, in order to keep the best interests of the child as the most prominent of priorities. However, there remains a considerable list of aims to be addressed when the issue of responding to juvenile justice arises. These include decreasing rates of recidivism, providing rehabilitation into society, and ultimately recognizing that due to mental immaturity and lack of legal knowledge, young offenders require a degree of protection. The extent to which our legal system is able to adequately provide this is at times, questionable.
Furthermore, although castration with MPA is presented as a humane and merciful alternative to a life – long imprisonment or surgical castration, their constitutional rights have been reflected upon questioning if the First, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendments are being violated (Scott, & Holmberg, 2003). Synthesis The use of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) along with the context and the state of probational condition has been reviewed as a legitimatized and preventive medical standard and treatment which not only progresses to attempt on providing effective rehabilitation for sex offenders, but is also effective and serves to bring an actual and necessary state for protection of the children from sex offenders and adults from being sexually victimized. The method of castration with MPA can be effective by diminishing the desire for sexually deviant behavior, while allowing more control over sexual urges, while giving the chance of
Children were thrown in these cells for a wide variety of reasons from writing illegal letters to masturbating. In these detention centers there are over 200 children that have spent over twelve years of their life confined behind their walls. Dr. Ohmart assessed Mountain View’s solidarity confinement cells to find that they deliberately designed to humiliate and degrade. The Texas Youth Council employs a three empire system made up of guards/custodial workers, teachers, and caseworkers. The guards spend the most time with the inmates while also being the least educated and having the least pay.
During the last decade, the lack of urgency in implementing this law has resulted in nearly 1,000,000 youth being at risk of sexual victimization in adult jails and prisons. The regulations include the Youthful Inmate Standard, which bans the housing of youth in the general adult population, prohibits contact between youth and adults in common