I think the main theme of the story is the sexual victimization that have been and are facing teenagers in contemporary society. Connie is a fifteen-year-old teenager growing up in suburbia in the 1960’s. She is preoccupied with typical teenage concerns, her looks and popular music. Connie was very vain; the people who surrounded her knew how egotistical she was. She makes fun of her older plainer sister, argues with her mother, and
App. Ct. 657 (2012) was a case of “was it rape?” It is defined as after consent is withdrawn, continued penetration becomes rape. This case was a prostitute who agreed to have sex for money but withdrew her consent when the offender became too aggressive. He was tried and convict of a felony.
The crime of indecent assault and battery occurs when an attacker, has non-consensual physical contact with a person in a sexual manner. This could be any unwarranted physical contact to a person’s private body. This assault is punishable to up to five years in prison. The majority of sexual assaults are committed against women between the ages of 15 and 25, making college-aged women the group with the highest vulnerability to being assaulted. In fact, according to Kelly Walker from campusspeak.com, and a sexual assault survivor, one in four women will be raped during their college experience.
Felandrias Sedale Wright Professor Downs Correctional Counseling 1 December 2008 Sex Offender Registration, Notification, & Civil Commitment Statutes: Due Process vs Community Safety Whenever I have heard the term sex offender, I always pictured an adult who has had sexual intercourse with a minor child. As I began my research for this paper, I was informed that a sex offender is a person who has been criminally charged and convicted of, or has pled guilty to, or pled Nolo contendere to a sex crime. A sex crime can but does not always include sexual intercourse. In fact, crimes that are classified as sex crimes include: child sexual abuse, downloading pornographic material of persons under the age of 18, (child pornography), rape, statutory rape and even non-sexual offenses such as kidnapping. The term sexual offender is a broad term, with sexual predator being used to describe a more severe physical or repeat sexual offense.
Trying teenagers as adults would convince potential and actual teenage offenders that if they commit adult crimes, they will serve adult times. As my mom would say... “If you want to act like an adult you will get treated like one.” Almost every day I can bet you see on the news that a teenager somewhere around the world has committed a violent crime, something you wouldn’t even think a teen is capable of doing. For example Daniel marsh 16, who was once known as a hero for saving his dad, is now being tried as an adult in court for a double homicide. As I can see teens in my generation don’t fear the law because they don't think that they will get in trouble. And if they do, they know they have a better chance of getting off easy because they are tried as teens and not adults.
To begin with, some of the sentencing for sex offenses is out of control. I find it heart breaking that some victims, that choose to pursue legal action; having to go through the pain and agony of reliving their experience, in front of a judge and sometimes a jury is traumatic in its own sense. Then the offender only gets a few years sentence and can go for parole after a few short months of “good behavior”. For a person that rapes someone that is 15-17 years of age and at least 10 years older and not the spouse of said person the sentence minimum is 6 months; the maximum is 2 years. In what sense is 6 months fair to the victim regardless of there age this is too lenient.
Re-Entry of Sex Offenders Francina Moore CRJ422: Criminal Justice Capstone Professor: Robert Jackson February 16th, 2011 One of the worst crimes in the world is a sex crime. Sex crimes are committed by both men and women from all ages. These are crimes that is committed when an individual have sex with an individual without their consent. Statutory rape is when the sex may be consensual, but one person may be old enough to be the victim mother or father, and that person can
Relativism and Morality on Rape Relativism and Morality on Rape As we all know rape is wrong. It is the violation of another person. Some cultures believe that rape is not a crime. It used to be said, often enough, that rape is not a sexual crime but a power crime (Goodman, 2010). I can relate to this subject because my daughter was a victim of rape, at the hands of her step dad.
technical name of the offence, description of the offence and less then half of the web sites list the level of risk of the offender. Increasingly states are including description of the offenders car, license plate, online maps to the offenders residence, name and offenders of the offenders employer, and even click to print fliers for easy distribution. The definition for sex offender means many different things. One type of sex 3 offender could be a rapist while another might be an 18 year old boy having sex with a 15 year old girl. As I had learned just recently that there was a 10 year old caught touching girls 5 years old in ways that he should not have been.
According to California penal code 314 (Indecent exposure) you may be subject to registering as a California sex offender if convicted (Shouse, 2012). Indecent exposure can be something as simple as going to the restroom on the side of the road in a public place or being over 18 and having wiling intercourse with a minor. For example, Kevin Teichen is a known sex offender who has served time in prison for having sex with two underage 16 year olds (zorn, 2011). Although Kevin has the social skills as a ten year old the two girls were underage so he received a five-year prison sentence. Kevin is not expected to be put on parole when he is eligible because he has no place to go but his parents.