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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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Chemical Castration Birth Control
1,115 wordsWhat if our nation where to take a true no tolerance approach to sex offenders? What if the old adage the devil made me do it was no longer an excuse, thrown out along with I could not help it and I am sick, its not my fault? Whether it is due to media exposure, new community outrage aimed at the offender rather than the victim OR that our nation is truly going to hell in a hand basket, we are bombarded on a daily basis with shocking stories of children being molested, their innocence stolen, th...
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Sexual Abuse Socio Political
1,142 wordsLiterature Review (1) The study The Social Construction of the Child Sex Offender Explored by Narrative by Helen Gavin, suggests that peoples attitude towards sexual offenders can be thought of within the context of artificially created social narrative. During the course of a study, 10 men and 10 women were being asked to describe their vision of what constitutes sexual offence and what do they subconsciously associate it with. The key variables of the qualitative report were: gender affiliatio...
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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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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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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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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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