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Law Enforcement Officials Convicted Sex Offenders
550 wordsMegan's Law has had a profound effect on not only convicted sex offenders and prosecutors, but also on the community including real estate brokers and apartment owners. Megan's Law is a collection of statutes that were passed in 1994 in response to the death of Megan Kansas, who was killed by a convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her home. Two of the laws are collectively known as the Registration and Community Notification Law (RCNL) and are composed of the: 1. Registration ...
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Sex Offender Treatment Programs
2,042 wordsSex Offender Rehabilitation: An Analytical Essay Few topics cause as much emotional opinion as sexual abuse and the treatment of the abusers. The development of programs promoting therapeutic changes in sex offenders can be negatively affected by society's emotional responses to these crimes. However, the power of these emotions should not be used to condemn sex offenders as monsters, but to fuel the will to search for appropriate treatments. It is important to understand that sex offenders can ...
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
1,305 wordsSex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43, 000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510, 000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510, 000 children have their childhoods destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault ...
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
1,225 words... imply notifying the public does not remove the responsibility of the legal system from keeping sex offenders from committing another offense. If the correctional system releases a convicted offender and places him or her on parole they must be supervision. A study found in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior, by R. Hanson and Andrew Harris, looked at possible behavioral indicators predicting the recidivism of a sex offender. They found recidivists generally have poor supports, attit...
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Dollars Per Day Chemical Castration
1,136 words... spatial numbers and even though surgical castration is more severe the end results for chemical vs. surgical are very similar, and a very good argument can be made for the humanity of chemical castration. In a news article, Pro and Con: Is castration a Just Punishment for Sex Offenders a recipient of the injections who had been a repeat offender stated he was finally happy now that the uncontrollable urges that drove him crazy were finally gone. Yes, there are situations were this method wil...
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Cause Undesirable Social One Dimensional View
1,747 wordsThroughout this semester, I have looked through our book and made a decision on the topic that interested me the most. This topic is one that affects our entire society. After considering the increase in rape and molestation, sexual harassment, and other sex crimes over the last few decades, and also the corresponding increase of business in the pornography industry, does the media cause undesirable social consequences with specific reference to pornography and violence. In the late seventies, A...
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Understanding Sexual Addiction And Possible Treatments
1,804 wordsMen and women who have or exhibit excessive or unusual sexual urges or behaviors can be considered sex addicts. An example would be a man who sits at his computer and engages in Internet pornography, regardless of the fact that he is married and his marriage is suffering because of his activities. Another example would be a woman that engages in extra-marital affairs, knowing this could end her marriage and possibly result in her being infected with a sexually transmitted disease. These are just...
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Dangerous Sex Offenders Should Be Locked For Life
2,048 wordsDangerous Sex Offenders Should be Locked for Life (1) There can be no doubt as to the fact that sexual offenders pose clear and immediate danger to society's well-being. At the same time, the criminal act, on the part of these offenders is often being regarded as redeemable. As a result, people that are known to have unhealthy sexual obsessions are being released from jail as corrected members of society, after having served their time in jail. When this happens, the members of local communities...
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Began To Realize Emily Dickinson
2,267 words19 th Century North American Writing To find out about female sexuality in the Scarlet Letter was not an easy task. The history of female sexuality remains for the most part terra incognito. Only in the last century or so have women themselves openly discussed their sexuality in ways that are accessible to historians. Another problem has been that for most of human history, the written word has been largely a male preserve, so women are almost always perceived through the distorting lens of men....
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Sexually Abused Capital Punishment
744 wordsThe Debate over the merits of capital punishment has endured for years, and continues to be an extremely indecisive and complicated issue. Adversaries of capital punishment point to the Marshalls and the Millgard's, while proponents point to the Dahmers and Games. Society must be kept safe from the monstrous barbaric acts of these individuals and other killers, by taking away their lives to function and perform in our society. At the same time, we must insure that innocent people such as Marshal...
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Dna Testing Dna Fingerprinting
1,571 wordsDNA evidence is extremely helpful in criminal trials not only because it can determine the guilt of a suspect, but also because it can keep innocent people from going to jail. The suspect must leave a sample of their DNA at the crime scene in order for testing to occur, but DNA can be found in the form of many things such as semen, blood, hair, saliva, or skin scrapings. According to Newsweek, thousands of people have been convicted by DNAs nearly miraculous ability to search out suspects across...
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Released From Prison Convicted Felons
922 wordsAlmost every state now has some sort of Megan's Law or mandatory notification of communities when a sex-offender is released from prison. Some states are even imposing lifetime probation for all child-molesters, with constant monitoring of even day-to-day activities. Under the law, an offender is required to register with the States Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) within 10 calendar days of being released from prison. The offender is required to verify a home address annually for a ...
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Back Into Society Megan Law
1,019 wordsChildren have become victims to sexual abuse in our society. How can we stop it? Some believe that Megan s Law is the answer. They feel that they have the right to know when possible danger is lurking on their streets. Others feel that a law of this sort is unnecessary and useless. Megan s Law was passed on January 3, 1996. Safety for our children was raised after an innocent seven-year-old child was raped and murdered by a former convicted sex offender who lived across the street. Megan s Law s...
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Convicted Sex Offenders Megan Law
528 wordsMegan's Law is named after seven year old Megan Kansas, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved in across the street from the Kansas without their knowledge. Megan's parents embarked on a national crusade to change federal and state laws to allow for community notification of released sex offenders. This law is very controversial because some say it infringes on the rights of privacy guaranteed in the U. S. Constitution. The question is what is worth mo...
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Rest Of Their Lives Law
1,066 wordsIn July of 1994, a little girl named, Megan Kanka, was raped and strangled. They found her body near her home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. The story of thing young girl has shocked the nation. The man responsible for this brutal act is named, Jesse Timmendequas. He had been convicted twice prior to this attack. He also served six years in a treatment facility and had been released. Many people said that he was a quiet man, and this left them to think he was harmless. Unfortunately, this was...
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Violent Offenders Megan Law
1,274 wordsMegan's Law is named after seven- year old Megan Kansas, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester in 1994. The felon moved in across the street from the Kansas, without their knowledge. Megan's parents embarked on a national crusade to change federal and state laws to allow for community notification of released sex offenders (Johnson 11). After this event, few could argue that communities should be notified when a sex offender moves in. However, present sentencing la...
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Law Sex Crime
2,503 wordsSteve Butler and Eric Roos Ms. Johnson Advanced English 10 14 January 2000 Megan? s Law When people think of their neighbors, do they think of violent sex crime offenders? Many people have to deal with this every day of life. There are now laws that inform people of a community when a sex crime offender moves into their town. These laws are said to keep violent sex crime offenders from striking again, but do these laws really work is the question that many people ask? The answer all depends on t...
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Convicted Sex Offenders Law Enforcement Agencies
2,866 wordsTragically, there is little we can do to help the innocent children who already have been victimized in this horrible, horrible way, but, we can-and we must-do everything possible to prevent that horror from happening to other children. Pennsylvania s governor, Tom Ridge, said this while talking about the horrible crimes of child molestation. There have been many cases in this country of these types of crimes, and unfortunately, no one had made any effort to make laws to help protect our childre...
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Megan Law Unusual Punishment
1,948 wordsWhat is the best way to deal with people who prey on our children? Should we send them away forever or should we brand them sex offenders for the rest of their lives. Do the sex offenders have rights? The government feels that the best way to deal with this type of criminal is to brand them. Megan's Law or Registration of sex offender law was created so that people would be able to protect themselves and their children from such people. Sex offenders, supposedly, are chemically unbalanced and ar...
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Sexually Explicit Material Violence Against Women
2,741 wordsIt started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, an...
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