4/20/11 Crime & Delinquency Dr. Shirley I. Williams Term Paper Juvenile Sexual Offender As we all know‚ throughout the years‚ we’ve heard of many sad stories of juvenile sex offenders ad offenses. So what is a juvenile sex offender? “A juvenile sex offender is defined as a youth‚ from puberty to the legal age of majority‚ who commits any sexual act with a person of any age‚ against the victims will‚ without consent
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Assessment: The Impact of falls in the Elderly Grand Canyon University: NRV433V-1030 Date: November 01‚ 20013 Falls and its related injuries is alarming problem with the elderly population that needed prompt attention of authorities and society‚ impact on the elderly population is serious. In the article many aspect of falls and its impact in the elderly population is studied. It is important to reduce the associated risk factors of falls in the elderly. Falls continued to be the major
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Aging Media Review: “Depression and the Elderly” by Heidi Stevens Katarzyna Wiley University of Maryland Baltimore County In the article‚ Depression and the Elderly‚ Stevens points out that the elderly are more likely to have depression. Stevens gives the statistic that approximately 20 percent of the population that is over the age of 55 is going to endure mental health concerns (Stevens‚ 2013). This could be because the elderly is not receiving the proper care that they should be
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Marshall et al. seemed to only be treating those that are convicted sexual offenders there was never any mention of non-offending paraphilias that go through treatment. They decided to focus their study on sexual offenders because they found in their research that that since other paraphilics and sexual offenders were thought to be so similar‚ they would also go through the treatment process the same way. By focusing on sexual offenders‚ the DSM IV’s reliability for diagnosing paraphilias is questioned
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Releasing Protected Health Information By Tracy 11/28/2010 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 also known as HIPAA is a federal law that was put in place to protect private health care information. The HIPAA law also regulates how private health care information can be released and who it can be released too. Any violation of HIPAA can result in termination‚ fines and even jail time‚ this is why it is important for health care providers to understand and follow
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have serious consequences such as incarceration due to crimes‚ but the ones that do tend to never help reduce the amount of offenders in the U.S. The juvenile justice system’s main goal is rehabilitation for all youth‚ but research and many studies have been carried out in order to describe what the system is doing wrong and what problems need to be resolved. Juvenile offenders should be placed in rehabilitative programs because punitive programs are counterproductive and therefore juvenile procedures
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Offender profiling also known as criminal profiling is based on the principle that the characteristics of an offender can be worked out by examining the characteristics of their offences. As Ainsworth (2001) puts it‚ “profiling generally refers to the process of using all the available information about a crime‚ a crime scene‚ and a victim in order to compose a profile of the (as yet) unknown perpetrator.” Eye witness testimony refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed
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The criminal justice system uses unique policies and programs to address the difficulties associated with dealing with young offenders. It is widely accepted by the international and Australian standards that children and young offenders should be subject to an alternate criminal justice system than adults‚ which identifies and recognizes their inexperience and irresponsibility. “Best interests of the child” (CROC article 3). In NSW‚ daily there are over 500 under 18s incarcerated in juvenile institutions
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Self-Determination in the Elderly 1 Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Self-Determination in Elderly People Maritta Valimaki‚ Helena Haapsaari‚ Jouko Katajisto and Ritta Suhonen Research and Design Professor Pollack April 10‚ 2007 Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Self-Determination in Elderly People: A Critique ABSTRACT Self-Determination in the Elderly 2 This research
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(2010): Pain: elderly patients. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2011; 69(2-B): 387-394. The authors reviewed various double blind‚ randomized‚ controlled trials along with their systematic reviews to evaluate different methods of assessing and managing pain in demented and non-demented elderly people. They utilized articles published in Scopus‚ Pubmed and Web of Science from the years 1966 to 2010. In this literature they reviewed the physiology of pain in the elderly and the different
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