The positivist writer Mendelsohn argued that the victim of a crime ‘had an aptitude, although unconsciously, of being victimised’. He stated that victims ‘look, think and act differently’ than non-victims which increases their chances of becoming victims again. However, the positivist approach can be argued to be reductionist as it identifies certain patterns of interpersonal victimisation but ignores wider structural factors influencing victimisation
WRITTEN QUESTIONS Unit Title: Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care Unit sector reference: HSC 024 Candidate name: …………………………………… Answer the following questions, give examples where possible. |Question |Answers | |Define the following types of abuse: |Physical abuse is when someone deliberately hurts or injury’s you. It can include | |Physical abuse |hitting, kicking, hair pulling, beating with an object, throwing and shaking. | |Sexual abuse | | |Emotional/ Psychological abuse |Sexual abuse is any action that pressures or coerces someone to do something they do not | |Financial abuse |want to do. It can also refer to behaviour that impacts a person’s ability to control | |Institutional abuse |their sexual activity or the circumstances in which sexual activity occurs including oral| |Self neglect |sex, rape or restricting access to birth control and condoms.
What adverse impact(s) can you envision for our criminal justice system if pleas were not allowed? Cite a source or sources in support of your position. ------------------------------------------------- Prosecutors use 3 basic types of plea bargains with defendants in the United States. 1. Defendants may plead to a lesser offense.
Grand Canyon JUS 110 MOD 6 DQ 1 How does the motivation of a serial killer differ from that of a terrorist? Grand Canyon JUS 110 MOD 6 DQ 2 Should different types of rape receive different punishments? For example, should someone who rapes a stranger be punished differently or more severely than someone who is convicted of raping a spouse or convicted of date rape? Why or why not? Grand Canyon JUS 110 MOD 7 DQ 1 Can social structure theories be used to explain white-collar crimes?
I intend to show how Agnew’s theory of strain describes the murders committed that are later determined to be caused by battered women’s syndrome. Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory (GST) argues that strain or stress is the major source of criminal motivation. He expands upon Merton’s Anomie Theory of strain and stress to include several causes of strain or stress. Agnew categorizes 3 types of strain that produce deviance: the failure to achieve positively valued goals, the loss of positive stimuli, and the introduction of negative stimuli. There are several different actions that can be taken to correct the strain in order to curb deviance, including exercise, counseling, and advocacy programs (Agnew, 1992).
After medical professionals deem a person mentally ill, the court room can then proceed to conclude an insanity defense. Both understand that claiming a mental illness can be sufficient enough to somewhat relieve the burden of guilt in a court of law. The diagnosis of mental illness does not automatically deem innocence and the person usually becomes institutionalized, therefore treated, but not punished for their uncontrollable actions. In a courtroom, the idea an insanity defense created a right-wrong test which was established with the M’Naghten Rule in the case Queen v. M'Naghten (1843). This test was applied when deciding if a person, at the time of the committing of the act, was ‘laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he knew
A. Theoretical perspectives on attachment styles a. B. Associated features of sexual offending behavior a. C. Predicted sex offender behaviors in offenders a. With Anxious/Ambivalent attachment styles i.
In a paper written by Elizabeth Kandel PhD. of the University of New Hampshire; she notes that the potential biological connections to the development of this type of disorder can be associated with prenatal or birth trauma as well as a genetic link for aggressive psychological disorders. Kandel’s study revealed that there was strong connection between birth complications and recitative violence; however the associations between ASP and birth complications were indeed weak at best. Kandel then concludes that the association of ASP and violent behaviors such as those of Bundy come from different etiologies. (Kandel, 1991) Antisocial Personality Disorder Ted Bundy: A Perfect Storm Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASP) is defined as “the chronic manifestation of antisocial behavior patterns in impulsive or amoral persons.” The general characteristics associated with these types of behavioral patterns include impulsiveness, inability to delay gratification,
In this speech I am going to tell you about the types of insanity defense that are used in court cases, the process that goes into verifying a criminals sanity, and the issues that come about after a plea is entered. Now I’m going to explain what insanity is and the different types associate with it. The insanity defense plea as defined in law journals is a defense that’s asserted by the accused in a criminal prosecution as a way to avoid liability for a commission of a crime because at the time of the crime the person did not appreciate the nature or quality or wrongfulness of the acts. Cognitive insanity is the most common variation of an insanity defense that goes through the court system. This is where the defendant during the time of the crime suffered from a mental disease that impaired his/her psychological ability to see the wrongfulness of the act they committed.
Gregory (2010) describes Schizophrenia as the perfect example of a severe mental illness. The world is an incomprehensible jumble for Schizophrenics and the line between delusion and reality is blurred, if not obliterated. The American Psychiatric Association (2013) categorises Schizophrenia as a psychotic disorder, with abnormalities in one or more of 5 domains. These are delusions, hallucinations, disorganised thinking and speech, and grossly disorganised or abnormal motor behaviour such as catatonia. If these delusions and beliefs are not understandable to cultural peers and not related to ordinary life experiences, they are deemed to be bizarre (The American Psychiatric Association, 2013).