Running head: The Needs of Special Offenders The Needs of Special Offenders Professor Gregory Baugh Jeremiah Ritzenthaler University of Phoenix/CJA 234 The Needs of Special offenders Inmates with special needs‚ the mentally ill‚ and the substance abusing inmates all make up a large number of the prison population. These inmates affect the prison systems in different ways. Providing programs for the mentally ill inmates is extremely difficult for correctional staff. A very high percentage
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“Child Molestation” July 8‚ 2012 Darilyn Hall Strayer University‚ Chamblee Campus Child molestation is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Many people may consider this activity as rape. This form of child abuse includes pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities with the adult. The effects of this behavior can include depression‚ stress disorder‚ and physical injury towards the child that could possibly lead the child to
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I chose this study because it provided a balanced look at the reality that youth offenders no matter their race can stop offending as adults. This study involved 25 males who had a history of juvenile delinquency (Ruhland‚ Witham‚ Daily & Johnson‚ 2006). There were Black‚ White‚ Asian‚ Native American and Other male participants. The participants were chosen because they had no serious crimes since becoming adults (Ruhland et al.‚ 2006). In addition‚ it investigated the perspectives of the male participants
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In the article “Remorse‚ Psychopathology‚ and Psychopathy among Adolescent Offenders” by Andrew Spice‚ Jodi Viljoen‚ Kevin Douglas‚ and Stephen Hart‚ the aim is to establish the effects of shame and remorse on young offenders. Previous research doesn’t allow discussion for the implications and differences between the two emotions. The article is meant to link the “bad” guys with the bad feelings; bad is in quotations as these people are deviant‚ but not necessarily bad. In the words of the authors
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of sex crimes. The state of Ohio’s revised code provides specific information in regard to individual classification as a sexual predator‚ sex offender‚ or violent sexual predator. Title 29‚ Crimes and Procedure‚ chapter 2950 provides detailed definitions of sexual predators‚ habitual sex offenders and sexually oriented offenders. As such‚ Sex offender is defined as a person who is convicted of‚ pleads guilty to‚ has been convicted of‚ has pleaded guilty to‚ is adjudicated a delinquent child for
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Sakenah Samarah speech 131 Introduction I. Attention Getter: Has anyone here ever added someone on a social networking site‚ whom you did not know? Well Megan Meier did and it was the tragic end of her. II. Reveal the topic: Today I will be discussing with you‚ social networking sites and the unhealthy effects it has on our society. III. Establish credibility: I myself am associated with social networking sites‚ and know firsthand the dangers they can cause. And for the past couple
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It was the summer of 2013‚ and I was going to be a senior in high school‚ and like every other summer for the past 4 years‚ I spent the majority of my summer training for football. I didn’t hate it or else I would have quit the team and done something else with my life‚ but at the same time I felt as if we were given no break from football. It felt like it was an all year long sport. To me football didn’t just show me how to run the ball‚ how to catch a ball‚ and how to tackle. Football also gave
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Discuss approaches to profiling There are three approaches to criminal profiling; the British approach‚ the US approach and Geographical Profiling. The US approach is a top down approach which means they start with the big parts of the case and work down to the smaller things involved. The approach was invented by the FBI in the 1970’s when they first looked at the family backgrounds‚ personalities‚ behaviours‚ crimes and motives of serial killers who had sexual aspects to their crimes. They
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Three Strikes Law”. This law mandates not just sex offenders but any felony offenders. In some cases violent sexual offenders are prosecuted with a law called “One Strike” where as when a violent sexual crime is committed then they offender would be prosecuted with facing life in imprisonment for their first strike. It is strongly believed by me that we have a one strike law for all violent sex offenders whose victims were minors. Sex offenders whose crime is violent in nature are prosecuted one
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It is no doubt that Racial Profiling fully exist today. Society has been doing this for years‚ and will continue to do this for the rest of their lives. People have been targeting others based on their race. Knowing the effect it has on them‚ and just doing it to harm them. Racial profiling is everywhere. Most specifically‚ Law Enforcement. Officers of the law have been known to use racial profiling when it comes to African Americans. There has been several reportings of officers using excessive
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