Habitual offender

Many criminals tend to display patterns and certain characteristics that they do not think to cover up after a crime is taken place. Figuring out these patterns and characteristics are parts of the endless jobs criminal profilers are responsible for finding. Much of the time, these professionals are making educated guesses and can be subjective. However, these “educated guesses” are shown to be very true majority of the time. Criminal profiling is a very difficult jobs to be into shown by…

The ICAC task force program was founded in order to help State and local law enforcement agencies enhance investigations concerning offenders who use the Internet, Social Media, or other computer technology to sexually exploit children. The program is currently made of 59 regional task force agencies and funded by the US Department of Justice, Office Of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency…

In forensic science, there are multiple things that can point someone as a criminal. In the case of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders, hair and fibers were used to convict Wayne Williams. A single hair can contain multiple things that can point a individual to a crime. Hair has certain characteristics that can pinpoint to whom the hair belongs to. Hair of a human will be much thinner compared to animal hair. Hair that is curly or darkly pigmented can be of a African American being.…

hypothetical scenario, Pete File lives in a fictional state of Lake Forest, where a law exists that prevents a sex offender, such as Pete, from using social media that a minor may access. This situation is about Pete’s use of social media in opposition to the law. The law prohibits registered sex offenders from using social media. The purpose of the law is to prevent communication between sex offenders and minors. This is to help preserve the safety of the minors. Pete File’s communication in…

According to Massimo A. Bonfantini and Giampaolo Proni in their article “To Guess or Not to Guess,” abduction is commonly used in the detection of crime when solving cases and inferring hypothesizes based on evidence and imagination. Abduction is commonly defined as “identify[ing] possible causes of resulting events” through hypothesizing with observed data (Bonfantini and Proni 123). In other words, this definition means that abduction involves observing data and interpreting this data with…

Theodore Robert Cowell also known as Ted Bundy who was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile. He confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978 yet the confession, the number of victims could be much higher and remains unknown. After ted died the man who defended ted which would be his lawyer confessed ted had killed more than 100 women. He also revealed that even though ted was a necrophile,…

that was not thought of to inform a grieving family, and others of a sex offender living near them in their community. On account of the situation that took place involving Megan and a sex offender, it was a need for Megan’s Law to be created and implemented as a Law. This law makes the people aware of their safety, and being informed if a sex offender is in proximity of individuals that can become victims of repeated sex offender crime(s). Some individuals are in favor of the law, and then…

When many people think of a serial killer they think of Hannibal Lecter, although he is fictional, or Jeffrey Dahmer. A serial killer is someone who murders at least three people that fit a specific category weather it is based on gender, race, wealth, age, religion, or any other characteristic (Serial Killer 2001). Serial killers have intrigued and frightened people in American culture for decades. One of the more horrifying aspects of serial killers is that there is no way of distinguishing…

occurrence of sexual assault or crimes involving sex, is have legislators pass laws in efforts of reducing recidivism among convicted sexual offenders and deterring would be offenders. Due to the laws passed by legislators, sex offenders living in the United States are required to participate in multiple policies and programs such as; registering as a sex offender, community notifications that are sent out, constraints on where they can live, being monitored and certain internet restrictions,…

establish characteristics of a Child Sex offender (Xavier et al., 2008; Becerra-Garcia et al., 2013; Olivia, 2013). Or to establish what intervention or treatment programs work best to minimise these occurrences (Wilcox et al., 2014; Lasher and Mcgrath, 2016). However, one pertinent issue which seems quite sparse in the literature is whether or not the current application of deterrence (just desserts) principles such as proportional prison sentences on child sex offenders are as…