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.
Compare and Contrast TWO models of sexual assault and their respective utility for (i) the treatment and management of sex offenders and (ii) assisting the police in criminal investigations. When anyone wants to investigate criminal sexuality from different perspectives such as legal, academic, or simply curiosity-motivated, the multiplicity and variety of the internal part of phenomenon becomes quite clear. Few dimensions of the behaviour inlying the sexual crimes have to be considered to perceive the disequilibrium and complexity of sexual assault (Hazelwood, 2000). Despite the fact that advances were made in recent decades to help understand, detect, and treat sexual offenders, sexual assault still remains a serious topic that still persists in society (Langton & Marshall, 2001). Also, the studies developing models of offences and offenders grouping depending on individual cases have grown over the past couple of years (Trojan & Salfati, 2008).
Further, because most hate-crime legislation puts added effort into prosecuting crimes against certain individuals or groups, what about the same crimes committed against someone who doesn't fit into one of those groups? Will the crime be prosecuted to the same extent? If not, you're making things worse for the majority, who are likely to feel underprotected. If the problem is that too many people (of any group) are being mugged, or assaulted, or their belongings vandalized, you should put more effort into prosecuting muggings, assaults, or vandalism. Not to protect any one group, but to protect all
The community was in fear of another attack, they turned to the law enforcement community to provide reassurance that everything possible was being done to protect the community. The criminal justice system had to make changes to policies and procedures to ensure that future crimes of this nature will be better handled. Future Criminal Justice Trends Because technologies are constantly changing and upgrading, many future trends in criminal justice have presented. With the advancement of the computer and the World Wide Web, cyber-crimes have become more popular in the United States and around the world. A very common and hard to control issues that the United States and the world has had to contend with is identity theft.
In society, when the words “sex offender” are brought up, the public usually has the same image in their mind. They usually would see this image of an older male that unceasingly tries to get with children. They public also has a stereotype for this image, that once your sex offender, you’re always a sex offender. Sex offenders are seen as among the most dangerous kinds of offender in terms of both the impact that their wrongdoing has on victims’ lives and because of concerns about their risk of reoffending. However it has recently came to question of whether this perception of dangerousness is supported.
Introduction: The development of the world and humanity has included the rise in crime and illegal drugs, attacks and terrorism and innumerable challenges for the criminal justice field and organizations. The necessity of dealing with these challenges has and will demand extreme perseverance by these criminal justice organizations so as to reassure that justice will triumph. It is only expected that these organizations would depend on professionals that are committed, driven and solidly trained. The environment of crime and its prevention requires enforcement of the ethical and moral values of our society but more importantly the fundamental protection of constitutional rights and privileges and the civil liberties of the citizens.
Theory of sexual offence and victim impact Sexual practices have varied across time and culture, but ultimately the role of family as a unit has high influences and dictates the perceived norm, this applies in all areas of sexual offence such as rape and child molestation, and sexual deviance which can range anywhere from homosexuality to exhibitionism and fetishism to sadism. Distinguishing between them is on some levels hard as laws differ from country to country and state to state and due to anthropology. Ultimately the illegal behaviour of sexual offences/crime and legal sexual deviance is dictated by the social constructs in which you live, and how they change over time. For instance, homosexuality was at one stage illegal, while now it is a commonly excepted form of lifestyle-in most parts. For the purposes of this essay the sexual offence that will be focused on is child sexual abuse.
The issue of whether it is justifiable to prosecute the reckless transmission of diseases and pursue it within a criminalisation framework is a highly contentious and pressing one which has sparked rigorous legal debate and legislators, both in the UK and internationally, have been grappling with the controversy of deploying the criminal law to prosecute reckless transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Having generated a plethora of well articulated academic analysis, the invocation of penal statutory legislation to eliminate the deliberate or reckless dissemination of sexually transmitted infections holds great significance, albeit effectively actualizing a confounding set of realities alongside. While it is legitimate in the UK jurisdiction to convict a HIV positive individual who put others at risk by failing to disclose his medical condition of an offence under section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act (OAPA) 1861, the situation sits uncomfortably with less severe STIs like herpes. In the following paragraphs, I will illustrate whether criminal sanctions against reckless transmission of STIs under such circumstances are necessary, directing my focus on herpes especially, pursuant to the theories of criminal law. In 2003, despite the reservations expressed by the Home Office, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) adopted a policy of prosecuting reckless transmission of HIV under the OAPA 1861, after the first prosecution in England arose.
In addition to this appalling immediate toll, child abuse is thought to have many harmful long-term consequences” (“James Poterba 1”). Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin are two people that focus on the effect of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent health. They focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. “The various studies that show that having access to a gun at home increases the propensity to commit a variety of crimes, by about 30 percent among adolescents. Decreases in gun ownership over the 1990s can explain up to a third of the decline in ceime over the same period.
Latasha Thomas Composition I Final Project Today’s society can be a scary and dangerous place, if not properly prepared for it. Some things must be put in place to protect those who can’t necessarily protect themselves. That is why I want to let parents and children know about sexual predators that may come around them or adults who make them feel uncomfortable. Never is it ok for an adult to touch a child inappropriately, or abuse them sexually. As adults we owe it to children to ensure their safety against sexual predators among us, online and off.