This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. "(Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2009/2010/2011/2012) Sexual assault is a personal and destructive crime. The effects on individual can be psychological, emotional, or physical. They can be brief in duration or last a long time.
With the increasing re-offending rate in recent years, it is a fundamental importance to understand those factors affecting the people to commit sexual crimes and the reasons of the reoffending. The second part is to evaluate the most commonly used sentence which imposed on the sexual offender on the aspect of rehabilitation. In this research, secondary resources and data it mainly used to examine the sentencing system on the sexual offences, some of other countries' work is also cited out as reference for the research. The existing sentencing system is obviously incompleteness that the reoffending rate of sexual crimes is high and devastating. Therefore, recommendations are also made in relation to the factors of this issue.
Risk assessments are also designed to manage and identify areas of concern, either to the patient or health professional’s involved in the care of the patient. Areas of risk assessment may include suicide or self harm, absconding, aggression or violence, substance use, vulnerabilities and neglect, non adherence or compliance. These areas of assessment may include past risk and current risk factors (Edward, Munro, Robins & Welch, 2011). Risk assessment of the patient is important but also risk towards others. Patients with paranoid schizophrenia are more opportunistic in behaving aggressively or violently towards co-patients and/or staff, which is why implementation of such assessment tools have been put in place (Langan, 2008).
Newton’s article “Domestic Violence: An Overview: The rates of domestic violence vary along several lines, including race, gender, economic and educational status and geographical location. Gender trends: Women make up 3/4 of the victims of homicide by an intimate partner. Actually, 33% of all women murdered (of course, only cases which are solved are included) are murdered by an intimate partner. Women make up about 85% of the victims of non-lethal domestic violence. In all, women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of males.
It is important to practice safe sex with all partners, especially if you or they have high-risk sexual behaviors. STDs is a serious illness that requires treatment. Some STIs, like HIV, cannot be cured and are deadly. By learning more about STDs, we can learn ways to protect ourselves from these diseases. Common STDs • Genital herpes • HIV/AIDS • Genital warts • Hepatitis B • Vaginitis • Chlamydia • Syphilis • Gonorrhea • Trichomonias OPINION: Since the STD seems to be very dangerous and highly communicable therefore we should follow proper measures/precaution to reduce it.
REHABILITATION VERSES INCARCERATION Rehabilitation should be viewed as more key than incarceration itself. People who are convicted of crimes should be allowed to heal and better themselves. Many of those people have serious addictions and issues that need to be addressed. In jail however, those issues will only worsen or fester. When the prisoner is released, they may be very angry about the lack of attention they recieved, and become a repeat offender.
How does it feel to be bullied? Well it does NOT feel very well. For some cases, it leads to suicide. Statistics show that… Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts.
Law Reform Regarding Sexual Assault Law reform is when law is introduced or an existing law is altered to improve, make more relevant or patch up a hole in our law. The issue of sexual assault is becoming increasingly prominent it today’s society. Because societies view on this issue, and growing awareness, past laws on sexual assault have failed to cover the needs of society today. This has lead to significant law reform over the past decade. The Criminal Procedure Amendment (Sexual Offence Case Management) Act (NSW) was introduced in 2005 which updated the previous act the previous act, The Criminals Procedure Act from 1986 (NSW).
Sexual Offenders Treatment and Supervision or Recidivism CRJ 308 Sexual Offenders; Treatment or Supervision or Recidivism The return of sexual offenders back in to the community gets an even rise out of citizens across society and not much else evokes more emotion in a community faced with the return of liberty to a sexual predator. When the word sexual offender is mentioned, people in general, and in law enforcement, tend to stereo-type the individual, immediately developing ideas and opinions which are mostly negative. “Nevertheless, law enforcement/community corrections officers and treatment providers all agree that sex offenders pose significant risks to vulnerable populations in the community and require specialized and intensive
Child Sexual Abuse and Crime Child Sexual Abuse, child maltreatment and crime are prohibited all around the world. “Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over a million children are victims of maltreatment and sexual abuse annually. Over half a million children suffer serious injuries, and about 1500 children die, making child maltreatment the leading cause of deaths from injuries in children over a year old. In addition to this appalling immediate toll, child abuse is thought to have many harmful long-term consequences” (“James Poterba 1”).