Sex offender registration was largely brought out as a means of increasing public awareness of sex offenders to support community safety. According to Sage Journals (2005)‚ records of 121 registered sex offenders in Kentucky showed that‚ “social stigmatization‚ loss of relationships‚ employment‚ and housing‚ and both verbal and physical assaults are experienced by a significant minority of registered sex offenders." Sex offender registration is publicly accessible
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It’s rare to see many of those affiliated with the law to all be on the same page. However‚ across the criminal justice system there is a striking question: should mentally ill offenders be held accountable for their actions? Now how do we consider some one mentally ill? To start off we define what a mental illness is which refers to a wide range of mental health conditions and disorders that affect your mood‚ thinking and behavior. The mentally ill are simply those who suffer such conditions and
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do their duty. Problems that they run into are not wanting to deal with sex offenders. Their goal needs to be that a sex offender is under watch‚ and it would be officer’s job to protect the community. An ethical perspective would be that are duty is to serve and protect even though at times you don’t feel like it you still have to what is best for the people in the community by protecting them‚ and monitoring sex offenders. We know that a deontologist view is to know the intent of the action. As a
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3. The anti-poverty policies: Participation‚ empowerment and co-responsibility During 1970´s and 1980´s the anti-poverty policies were mainly characterized by the entrance of the private sector as a social services provider. Certainly the trend of flexibilization of labour and the de-regulation policies‚ created new issues related with the enhancement of the informal sector‚ the contributive social welfare systems‚ and increasing levels of poverty. During the 1990´s the anti-poverty programmes
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Week 6 Assignment Punishment Research Paper “Does Punishment Deter Crime” By: Charmin M‚ Gunning Sociology/120-UOPX 8/12/2013 Introduction Today America has one of the highest crime rates in the world. There are many laws in this country that are meant to deter people from committing crimes‚ but‚ how well do these deterrents work? That is the question I will be addressing in this paper. I will also address the effects of four types of punishments; retribution‚ Deterrence‚
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The President Nixon years were shaped by trying to respond to negative economic conditions caused by earlier decisions. In 1969‚ inflation was slightly less than 5%. Anyway‚ this was the highest inflation rate since the Korean War. Nixon’s years saw high inflation‚ high interest rates‚ and enormous government spending resulting from LBJ’s Great Society‚ LBJ’s War on Poverty‚ and the Vietnam War that involved several Presidents. Causing additional economic stress was the faulty Nixon decisions regarding
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Crime and Punishment Notebook Book 1 Pg 1-“He had become so completely absorbed in himself‚ and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting‚ not only his landlady‚ but any one at all.” This quote‚ having been said so early on‚ really displays how isolated Raskolnikov is from everyone else in his life. He seems to live in some kind of “dread” of human interaction and appears to only really need himself. Pg 4- “He was positively going now for a “rehearsal” of his project‚ and at every
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I don’t know how effective my method would be‚ but I would use statics and survivors of pedophiles/ sex offenders to add validity to my argument. I would state that pedophiles/ sex offenders is a widespread pandemic and we must assume a get tougher mentality in order to reduce the number of children being seeing as prey by adults. In 2012 the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Criminal Victimization Survey‚ reported that 346‚830 children 12 years or older fell victim to rapes or some form of
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many different types of alternative punishment; the amount of juvenile crime would dramatically drop if any of these were more greatly enforced. The most effective way to help these teenagers and to get them started down the correct path is enforcing alternative punishment upon them. This form of punishment is sometimes also known as juvenile justice‚ restorative justice‚ and community justice (Karp‚ 2004). One of the most important characteristics of this punishment is "the idea of discussion‚ dialogue
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The Debate on Capital Punishment The Debate on Capital Punishment INTRODUCTION: Capital Punishment has been used for centuries‚ however‚ that does not mean that this form of punishment is universally accepted. Capital punishment has a long history of debate at least as long as the punishment itself. This debate is not resolved. To this day‚ it is a hot topic for most‚ even though 65 percent of adult Americans have indicated that they support this form of punishment. Additionally‚ this support
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