Habitual offender

important issues in society today. One important issue for many citizens is the crime rate is unacceptably high, and many people are forced to move away or feel like a prisoner in their own community. Moreover, when it comes to crimes in today's society, there is an increasing number of repeat offenders so in 1994 the state of California passed the “Three-Strikes and Your Out” law. This law proposes that felons who are found guilty of committing a third offense that is serious is to be locked up for 25 years to life in prison. Overall “the Three Strikes Law, or what is also known as the habitual offender law, are statues mandating state courts to impose “harsher” penalties…

Habitual offender laws or as it is known the three strikes law is hated by most people and even ex-president Bill Clinton regrets signing this law. This law is more complex than simple. Each state has its own version of this law with California being the strictest by implementing this law on criminals with non-violent felonies (Kieso). The effectivity of three strikes law has being question thousands of times because this law has the chance to ruins people’s lives who could had changed their…

Serial Killers are not an anomaly in history, they have existed as far back in history as B.C.E. their charming personalities and intelligence helped prevent detection and make significant stains in history, and the lack of evidence of actual disappearances or sudden deaths of people. In the book “Inside the Mind of Serial Killers: Why they Kill” by Katherine Ramsland states one of the first serial murders in history ever recorded was in 54 A.D., Locusta a female poisoner hired to put Nero on…

Life after Prison When most people think of individuals that have been labeled sex offenders in their area, there is not much remorse or empathy felt toward them. All sex offenders are characterized as child molesting sex enthusiasts when in reality, that’s not always factual. When a person commits a crime qualifying them as a federal sex offender, their life has changed forever in the worst way. The magnitude of the crime is almost always irrelevant and treatment is level in the eyes of the…

along with that about 300,000 women get raped per year. A sexual offender list was created for just officials to be able to know who has committed a sexual crime. However, because of certain cases the sexual offender list was made public in 1995. Megan’s Law states that the authorities must inform all communities about where a sex offender lives. This law also allowed the public to view the offender’s picture, name, address, and the description of their crime (Bonner-Kidd). Public shaming is a…

(Bonnar-Kidd, 2010). Many sex offenses go unreported. The majority of sex offenders are males with heterogeneous characteristics, and similar clinical needs (The Regent, 2016). Sexual crimes are rarely impulsive; the perpetrator has thought about the act ahead of time with a known victim in mind. Sexual offenders often justify their behaviors with denial, rationalizing, and minimizing. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder classified as a paraphilia (abnormal or unnatural attraction) by the American…

A 1997 report, “Validity, Utility, and Ethics of Profiling for Serial Violent and Sexual Offenders,” shows that the FBI also made this case nearly two decades ago, reporting success rates “in excess of 80 percent” (Wilson, Lincoln, and Kocsis, 1997). However, the FBI’s claims are inflated. In reality, Pinizzotto’s 1984 study shows that, out of 192 offender profile requests, only 46 percent were found useful to the investigation. Further more, profiling only aided in identifying suspects 17…

predator that unbeknownst to the Kanka family had pled guilty and served time for the sexual assault of two young girls previously. (History Channel, 2016) This horrific crime and devastating circumstances is what drove Megan’s parents to demand a change within our judicial system. The Kanka family pushed legislatures to change the laws for sexual offenders, requiring all sex…

or could be in a rage fueled rampage and with this information, law enforcement can narrow down a suspect pool to those who have anger issues or a history of severe mental illness. There will always be exceptions to the rules but in most cases, the crime scene does not lie. Forensic Psychologist Richard Kocsis states in his article on the history of profiling, “human behavior is in some capacity a reflection of personality.” (“Criminal”). What the suspect leaves behind or purposely doesn’t leave…

Pakhomou analyzed 97 victims and corresponded their race with the race of their killer. “Among 53 (54.6 per cent) white female victims, 46 (47.4 per cent) were attacked by white males and 7 (7.2 per cent) by nonwhite males. Among 31 (32.0 per cent) black female victims, 22 (22.7 per cent) were attacked by black offenders and 9 (9.3 per cent) by white perpetrators. One Asian female (1.0 per cent) and 12 (12.4 per cent) white males were the victims of white serial killers.”(222). This shows that…