An interesting study from the FBI uniformed crime reports from 2006 to 2010 shows 54% of rapes/sexual assaults go unreported. 3% of those reported actually serve time in jail. In the same study done by the FBI, out of every 100 rapes, 46 get reported, 12 lead to arrests, 9 get prosecuted, 5 lead to felony convictions, and 3 will spend even a day in jail. (1) Surgical castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries. Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce the libido and sexual activity.
Crim 135 MWF 12pm-12:50pm Dr. Hughes Sex offenders are a statewide problem that keeps growing in the united state alone there are over 92,000 registered sex offenders. With sex offenders on the rise, residency restriction are beginning to tighten making it almost impossible for registered offenders to get their lives back on track. Some states have gone as far as banning registered offenders from 500-25,00 feel near places where kids are know to hangout. Although residency restrictions gives victims and their families a hard piece of mind. They make it almost impossible for offenders to get a fresh start.
That's compared to only 40,000 in mental hospitals." Prisons were never designed as facilities for the mentally ill, yet that's one of the roles it plays. Prisoners have rates of mental illness-including such serious disorders as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression-that are two to four times higher than members of the general public. There were designed mental institutions/hospitals for mentally ill people, but due to poor economic conditions, a lot of hospitals were shut down or overcrowded and people who were caught by the police committing crime because of their illness were sent to prisons instead of mental hospitals. And prisons don't have the right resources for treatment of all these diseases.
* Almost half (46.9 percent) of those surveyed experienced physical abuse, including almost 80 percent of girls. * One in five reported histories of sexual abuse, and 77.3 percent of female prisoners reported abuse as girls. African Americans are twice more likely to be senetenced with life without parole for murdering a Caucasian than a Caucasian murdering an African American (Meza). The United States is still somewhat raciest when it comes to sentencing minorities
Project Two Capstone May 25, 2012 Sex offenders are a major issue in the criminal justice field and have been for several decades. Over the last two decades more and more sex offenders have been released back into the community due to the overcrowding in the prisons. (Sex Offenders) Many judges, law enforcement and probation officers have tried to find ways to deter male sex offenders from reoffending. Three main ways that officials have tried to deter sex offenders is lessening the caseloads, chemical castration, and tougher supervision. Megan's Law is an informal name for laws in the United States requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders, which was created
They don’t want to become known as the “snitch”. In recent studies, it has been found out that in the United States prisons alone, an estimated 364,000 males and female inmates were sexually assaulted in one year. Any young inmates that are physically small or weak, have a mental illness, are known as the “snitches”, are not in a gang, or convicted of any sexual crimes are at a higher risk of being the victim of sexual assault. Inmate suicide has been going on for years and is a problem that has not decreased. Newly arrested people who have been taken to a local jail
Recidivism is a huge problem and researchers have been studying which type of punishment can lower the recidivism rate so that jail and prisons do not continue to be revolving doors for so many men and women. In fact, “About three-fourths of state prisoners have been jailed before, and about half will be back within a few years after release (Petersilia, 1997; DeFina & Arvanites, 2002). In order to determine which type of punishment deters crime, this paper will look at four types of punishment that are used today. They are retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and social protection. This paper will also answer the question of whether the consequences of punishment provide any benefits for criminals and society.
Segregation of HIV Positive Inmates The United States prison population increased drastically over the last 20 years where approximately two million people are currently incarcerated in jails or prisons. The latest data reported by the Bureau of Justice (Maruschak 2) revealed that there are 21,462 HIV positive prisoners incarcerated in federal and state prisons in the US. During, mid 1980s HIV and AIDs “were not fully understood by scientists, policymaker’s and medical personnel” (Human Rights Watch); therefore correctional departments created and implemented very restrictive policies regarding HIV prisoners. It is believed that these early restrictions contributed to the current isolation of the HIV population. Furthermore, HIV prisoners
1). A staggering 50 to 90 percent of youth in California juvenile detention facilities suffer mental illness. A study on these youth concluded approximately 2,000 are jailed daily due to lack of community resources (National Center for Youth Law, 2015). One answer to this crisis was the development of juvenile mental health courts. Juvenile mental health courts concentrate on treatment instead of punishment.
Juveniles were responsible for 16% of the violent crimes and 26% of all the property crimes that were on record throughout the United States. The statistic report shows that the arrest rate for juveniles who were charged with murder is at a rate of 3.8 per 100, 000 juveniles that were arrested in 2008.” The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults According to "Juvenile Justice Bulletin" (2008), “The report lists statistics for the juvenile drug abuse violations in 1994, 2007, and 2008. During the different years listed, the drug abuse violations continue to decrease. The report shows that the drug abuse violations resulted in 180,100 juvenile arrests.” “Simple assaults included in the chart were at zero reported; however, looking under the other assaults in the report there were 18% of the arrests reported to be