Although this type of profiling might be useful to some crimes, it is limited to crimes that leave significant evidence e.g. serial murder, rape, arson, satanic crimes and paedophilia. Crimes that are rare but still horrific so it’s helpful if profiling helps solve these crimes. The rarity of these crimes also means that there is little support for this type of technique. Profiling has also been criticised for being far from guaranteeing a conviction.
The term sexual offender is a broad term, with sexual predator being used to describe a more severe physical or repeat sexual offense. (Travis, Jeremy) Sexual offenders are also sometimes classified into levels, where the highest level offenders have the most aggravating crimes and thus, the most risk to the public and usually must register as a sex offender for their entire lives. Low level sexual offenders may serve only a probationary sentence and only register for 10 years as well as having less restrictions placed on them compared to higher level offenders. In the United States, whenever one of these crimes are committed, the persons responsible are considered a sex offender and are mandatorily required to register as a sex offender. Especially in the United States the person, if convicted, is most likely required to register with the respective jurisdiction's sex offender registry, a county- or statewide database that is often public and accessible to everyone through the internet or other means.
With this in mind, practitioners making decisions about how to manage sex offenders must ask themselves the following questions: What is the likelihood that a specific offender will commit subsequent sex crimes? Under what circumstances is this offender least likely to reoffend? What can be done to reduce the likelihood of reoffense? The study of recidivism—the commission of a subsequent offense—is important to the criminal justice response to sexual offending. If sex offenders commit a wide variety of offenses, responses from both a public policy and treatment perspective may be no different than is appropriate for the general criminal population (Quinsey, 1984).
When it comes to assault, robbery, and burglary cases there will be typically more error due to eyewitness identification and circumstantial evidence. b. Most exonerations are not tracked when it comes to local and state municipalities so most cases prosecutors will say and go with the original verdict because they feel they usually are accurately right even with new evidence that could show innocence this then clouds the understanding of wrongful convictions. 3. Causes of Wrongful Convictions a.
Right realists believe that crime is not a social construction as other theories such as the labelling theory believe they believe it is a real problem. Official statistics show an increase in violence against the person’s offences of 1% and an increase of 25% in sexual offences against girls. Right realists state crime destroys communities as well as threatens work ethic in today society, this view is shared with neo conservatives. As stated in item A James Q Wilson states that crime is a result of biological differences, some people are more biologically predisposition to commit crime. Eysenck’s personality theory states criminal behaviour is a result of genetics and the nervous system.
The Rehabilitation of a Sex Offender? The overall goal of sexual offender treatment programs is to reduce the likelihood of offender recidivism in the future. Research has proven this goal an undesirable task because the variables leading to sexual abuse are many and often debated over, and there is also considerable resistance often on the part of the offender to fully engage in the treatment process. Cognitive behavioral therapy has been the preferred method for sex offender treatment however recent studies indicate an increase in the acceptance of psychoanalytical therapy. This essay will describe the benefits and limits of psychoanalytical and cognitive therapy while contrasting the use of these theories in treating sex offenders.
Reasons why Criminals Reoffend When it comes to crimes that one commits and is caught and brought to justice and serves times, many begin to wonder why these same criminal once back out in society continue to reoffend. What is their reasoning? Being a detention officer and working in the jails for over 10yrs, it is definitely an ongoing question that I ask myself all the time. When I see the same offender over and over again, coming back to jail in relations to similar crimes committed in the past and has resulted in more severe and harsh crimes. I began to think what the mindset of many of these reoccurring offenders is and what causes them to make the same mistakes again and again.
First and for most, to be able to identify the suspect and be able to contact them for further information or hearing information we must obtain their personal information. The other reason police get certain specific information form suspects is for statistical purposes. They use the FBI’s uniform crime report to form probabilities of which races were most likely to commit which crimes, where are they going to commit those crimes and what time of day will they possible commit them. The problem with race when determining guilt or innocence or whether to adjudicate a juvenile is that no matter what the crime when it comes to minorities most feel they are treated unfairly. They think that they system has it in for them and is biased to their ethnicity.
Some would believe that this abusive force may sometimes be necessary for criminals that seriously need to be apprehended and are not complying with orders, but that force should only extend to a certain degree, which is just enough to subdue that criminal. In many cases, police officers continue to use gratuitous force on someone, often causing far greater damage then intended, or allowed, for that matter. Brutality by law enforcement dates as far back as to the Roman Empire, and are still quite prevalent in the world today….much more often than you would think, or could even imagine. Police brutality in the United States rose greatly in the 1920’s with the establishment of prohibition, and a few decades later brutality rates increased again during the African American Civil Rights Movement. Many civilians, including myself, believe that these police officers think they can do these things because they believe they are merely ‘’above the law.’’ This summer I was a victim of such crimes brought about by the New York Police Department.
The ‘war on drugs’ has become a harsh and unnecessary measure that frankly costs American taxpayers far too much money. If the type of imprisonment suffered by nonviolent offenders is now deemed cruel and unusual, does the punishment really fit the crime? This is the question American citizens must ask themselves as they consider how far they must go in order to keep drug use and abuse under control. One of the many effects of the severe penalties for drug use is unjust incarceration. The average citizen may correctly point out that everyone has the right to due process and therefore innocent people are not simply sentenced to prison.