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  • Juvenile Detention Facility
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    1. In this situation, the judge has many different options. These options include probation, placement in a group home, being sent to a juvenile detention center, restitution, being fined, or doing community service. Probation is when a judge sets conditions for a juvenile delinquent that cannot be violated and if they are the juveniles will be sent to a juvenile detention facility, until he is 18. Being placed in a group home means the juvenile will be removed from his home and put into a home ...
  • Just Victims
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    Domestic violence is a topic that many of us will not feel affected by, but as a matter of fact this kind of violence is skyrocketing in our society. In the U.S., as many as 1.5 million women and 850,000 men were physically assaulted by their intimate partner last year, and numerous children abused by their parents. These sad criminal acts will continue to grow in our society, unless our community takes action to stop these crimes. First of all the most important tool we have available against t...
  • Victims From Serious Crimes
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    Reading the violence analysis of the 1998 NIBRS data was very interesting and scary at the same time. The numbers that are in the different tables represent victims from serious crimes to not so serious crimes. But is their such a thing as not so serious crime I feel that any crime that involves the police for anything is serious enough for the abuser to seek help. The overall violence report for the NIBRS was that of simple assault. Each year we as taxpayers pay millions of dollars for counseli...
  • Rate Of Black On White Crime
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    The Media and the Fear of Victimization Tonight's presenter spoke on the images of crime that are presented on television and the media and how they affect the public perception on being victimized. She gave examples of how the media has the tendency to often blow up situation so as to make it appear as if the nation is in some great peril. For example if someone does a study on juvenile crime you can expect the media to focus on juvenile crime and incidents that may be occurring across the nati...
  • Defined Level To The Punishment
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    Comp/2nd 1/14/97 The Caning Punishment Issue Reintroducing corporeal punishment would lower the crime rate and give some justice to the victims. There should be a defined level to the punishment and to which crimes it should be dealt. Establishing such laws should also take in to account the growing crime rate and the need to solve this problem. America broke free from the rule of England because of the injustices they believed were being done to them. One of the things the Americans wanted to b...
  • Crime Victims Rights Movement
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    Abstract This report will provide the information about the evolution of the concept of 'victim' and the study of victim ology. Victimology is a term first coined for a specialty within the field of criminology. In recent times, victim ology has come to embrace a wide array of professional disciplines working with victims. In its original form, victim ology examined characteristics of victims and how they 'contributed' to their victimization. The emergence of the crime victims' rights movement h...
  • Anne's Sister Mandy
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    Rachael Robles Prof. WattsVictimology CJ N 1"Locks keep out only the honest". By, Jewish Proverb Crime happens all over the world every second of every day. Thus making numerous amounts of victims. Crime victims are all around us even though we may not know it or think about it. According to the crime clock every twenty-five point three seconds a motor vehicle theft occurs. Have you ever thought what it would be like to walk away from you car, even after you have locked it, and to not be able to...
  • Robert Elias Feelings On Victim's Rights
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    Robert Elias' book, 'Victims Still'; , presents a very controversial stance that the victims' movement is, perhaps, not at all. Elias suggests that all the programs, laws, and institutions that have been created in the 1980's and 1990's have done absolutely nothing to help the victim. Elias also offers explanations as to how the victims' movement doesn't help victims, what the real causes of crime are, and how crime should be controlled. The victims' movement that sprung up during the 1980's and...
  • System Rape Victims Face
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    STo Report or Not to Report, That is the Question: a Case Study on Rape Victims Introduction Concerning philosophies of morality, rape is no doubt abhorred. However, what is debatable is whether or not it is one's duty to ensure that a rape is reported. In a particular case, one hotline operator finds herself in a dilemma that challenges her duties as a licensed social worker, with the obligation of ensuring that victims report their rape. As a part of the twenty-four-hour hotline staff at a loc...
  • Victims Of Mobile Phone Robbery
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    In this question there are several points to consider. Firstly there is the opening sentence. Does it mean that we are either not catching villains, or when they are being caught, the judiciary are not imposing custodial sentences and therefore they are back on the streets committing more and more crime. When dissected and taken apart the gripping headline that appeared in the Daily Express means nothing of the sort. It is merely an eye catcher that will draw people's attention to the article. W...
  • Evidence Of Sexual Assault
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    Paradise Lost: an Essay Upon viewing the documentary, "Paradise Lost", one of my first impressions was a feeling of shock at the hysteria surrounding the case, and how heavily it impacted the trial. Another area of concern was the tenuous (or nonexistent) evidence tying these youths to these horrible murders. The entire essence of the prosecution's case was a confession of questionable authenticity by Jessie Misskelley, Jr, coupled with a community-based fear of a satanic ritual having occurred....
  • Best Witnesses To A Crime
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    Assignment #2 Article #17 Looking Askance at Eyewitness Testimony The use of eyewitnesses has been a constant in of criminal justice system since its very beginning. Unfortunately, people do not make the best witnesses to a crime. The person may not have seen the actual criminal, but someone that looks similar to them. The witness may lie about what he or she may have scene. Also the witness can be influenced by the police as to who or what they saw at the time of the crime. The witness or victi...
  • Fbi's Uniform Crime Reports Program
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    Arguments over crime statistics have been raging ever since governments began counting criminal activity. In 1930 the United States congress authorized the attorney general of the United States to survey crime in America. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was chosen to implement the program. (Schmalleger p. 38) The Uniform Crime Reports is the survey taken by the FBI. This measure of crime in America depends on reports to the police by victims of crimes. The UCR Program was developed by the FB...
  • Sexual Harassment And Rape
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    Crime is an act of breaking the law and is considered a serious offense for which a court may impose a variety of punishments including imprisonment, death, or fine. It is generally classified into six major categories: homicide, kidnapping, theft, sexual violence, arson, and fraud. Homicide means the unlawful killing of one person by another. It is also known as murder or carnage. The accused must have intended either to kill or to cause serious bodily harm. American jurisdictions sometimes dis...
  • Mr Willard Treatment
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    The trial that I went to was for Keith Willard. He is a 35-year-old man who has been in jail for the last 10 years. He was in court today for a civil commitment as a sexually violent sex offender. The case was a petition filed by the state at the end of an inmates sentence in which the state must prove that Mr. Willard is capable of recommitting the a sex offense. Mr. Willard was a clean-cut, clean-shaven man who had no facial expressions throughout the whole time that I was there. The part of t...
  • Victims Case
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    I entered this class I had a fairly good idea of what to expecWhent. The title speaks for itself. Victim ology is the study of those who have been victimized. As a criminal justice major this is a class that I must take and also a class that I was eager to take. I heard other students speak highly about it. In Law Enforcement an officers main goal should be to do everything in their power to keep the public safe. As the slogan goes To Protect and Serve. An officer should put the victims or poten...
  • Crime Scene In Terms Of Human Behavior
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    The process of criminal profiling as it pertains to serial killers is extremely interesting and much more common than one would first think. This study deals with the research into the developmental and psychological approaches to serial killers. In the process of studying these offenders, researchers have discovered that crime scene manifestations of behavioral patterns enabled the investigators to discover much about the offender (Jones The Process of Criminal Profiling When Applied To A Seria...
  • Victim's Advocate In The Sentencing Process
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    Over the last twenty years "we have had considerable impact on the advancement of victims' rights, expansion of services for victims and upon government policy". I agree with that statement. Until about thirty years ago, the rights and interests of victims of crime were given little recognition. Since then, the change has been steady and significant. The Parliament of South Australia has legislated to confer rights on victims. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Act, and provisions in the Crimina...
  • Victim Empathy Classes For Offenders And Community
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    The American justice system has viewed criminal behavior as a crime against "the state", leaving crime victims with no input into the legal process of the administration of justice in today's courts. Restorative justice today recognizes the act of crime as being directed against individual people. Restorative justice is based on resolving conflict and making everything connected to the crime "whole again", thus healing the effects, restoring back to original condition, and making amends to all a...
  • Federal Legislation In Support Of Victims Rights
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    Do Victim's Need More Rights? When I was a child my best friend, Rosie, and I would play at each other's houses and we would walk each other half way home at the end of each day. Ashburn Village, the neighborhood we lived in, was an upper class development and it was considered safe. On October 14, 1991 the people of this neighborhood found that it was just the opposite. At four o'clock that afternoon Rosie and I were playing school in my basement when the phone rang. It was Rosie's brother call...

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