They state that the reason of this increase and growing rate is because of women in poverty and also the increased drug related offenses prosecuted against women. Most of the women in prison are there from committing nonviolent crimes and the women who are there for violent crimes; the majority of them are there for killing their abusive partners. A way to lower the incarceration rate of women is to make the current felony drug charges misdemeanors and by providing extra services behind bars to deal with things such as domestic, sexual, physical, emotional, and mental abuse (McCoy 9). Addressing these issues before incarceration and during will help women fit back into
Domestic Violence: How Laws and Sanctions Can Help Protect Individuals from Abuse Tamara Solomon HS5318 Prof. Arthur Hayden Capella University Oct. 31, 2010 Thesis: Because domestic violence remains a serious problem in society, more stringent laws and sanctions are needed to hold perpetrators accountable and to protect individuals from abuse. Annotated Reference List Etter, Gregg W.; Birzer, Michael L. (2007) Domestic Violence Abusers: A Descriptive Study of the Characteristics of Defenders in Protection from Abuse Orders in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Journal of Family Violence. Vol. 22, Iss.
Gail Hebson investigated how class shaped women's everyday experience and identity at work. The data in the study was gathered using unstructured, qualitative interviews. Interpretivists would claim a number of strengths for using this method to carry out the study. For instance, trust and rapport can be developed, which may generate more qualitative information about the respondent's interpretation of the world. Therefore Hebson was able to gain more insight into the women's thoughts on career aspirations.
One penalty that can be applied during the sentencing process is imprisonment/gaol. Gaol is one of the key penalties imposed during the sentencing process. Gaol is the detention of an offender for a specified period of time. There are a number of levels in the gaol system including open prison farms, minimum security, medium security, maximum security and super max. Gaol plays a significant role in achieving justice for society and victims as it incapacitates the offender so they cannot reoffend, provides a serious punishment for serious offences and keeps dangerous criminals off the streets.
This assignment allowed me the opportunity to conceptualize and test the implications of the experience in future situations that may occur as a social worker. This assignment related to my learning about oppression, privilege and diversity because it forwarded my ability to become aware of what is taking place in to today’s
Elizabeth Loftus suddenly found herself in the middle of sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders. Her trials that she testified in included those of mass murderers Ted Bundy and George Franklin. Her reason for testifying is to aid in the preventing an innocent victim from going to prison for something they did not do, and to protect a family's unity. Now Elizabeth Loftus is most known for her misinformation effect theory. The misinformation effect refers to the finding that exposure
Child abuse is more prevalent than we would like to think, so the role of a mandated reporter is crucial in stopping as many instaces of child abuse as possible. A mandated reporter is required, by law, to report suspected abuse or neglect (Wilson 2013). Thus, you report when you have a suspicion; you do not need proof (Wilson 2013). You must report when you have reasonable cause to believe that a child or adolescent has been abused or neglected or is in danger of being abused (Wilson 2013). Mandated reporters include many people in professions such as the following: child care worker,
In some states, the individual must be convicted of two serious felonies for the three strikes law to apply, while in others any felonies count towards the third strike. Critics of the three strike law express many strong arguments against their harsh legal statute. Our society has ultimately had an issue with the three strikes law. Some people have said that the law “destroys the flexibility of the courts and the judge, it is unjust in certain conditions, and it adds more criminals to an already crowded and expensive criminal system”
The current drug policies of the United States are in great need of revision. Many of the policies demand a mandatory sentence that is often steeper than the actual offense. Because of this many of the prisons are overcrowded by people that should not have been there in the first place. However, before I can state why the laws should be changed I would like to go back to how drug and their laws started. According to the New Batch website, 2001, drugs were not considered a major issue.
The goal of any law enforcement philosophy is to limit crime whenever possible, and it is rather apparent that whatever the statistics may show, sex offenders have a recidivism rate that borders on a pathological need to commit additional crimes. Merely brushing this aside by saying after their prison term that they have paid their debt is insufficient in light of the emerging research; it must be studied further in order to determine what the most effective way to curtail sex offender recidivism is. The research problem I will examining is why sex offenders have a recidivism rate that is so much higher than other crimes. I will focus on scouring the published material to find out if there is some sort of hormone imbalance in the average sex offender, or if there is a commonality in their upbringing that pushed them to commit such horrible crimes. The goal will be to look for links between sex offenders that commit the crime once again after their prison term is over.