Young offender

committing adult crimes, shouldn’t they face adult consequences? It seems that the severity of juvenile crime has risen so much, that it is hard to distinct it from adult crimes. On the other hand, most adult offenders we find today, who commit murder or assault are not first time offenders. The unfortunate thing is that a survey given by the Pretrial Services Resource Center found that an astonishing number of juveniles in adult facilities were charged with nonviolent crimes (ABCNews.com:…

Discuss how registration and community notification impact sex offenders and the community. Lasher and McGrath (2012) define registration as “the process of filing sex offenders’ identifying information with local law enforcement” whereas notification is defined as “how this information is released to the public” (p. 7). Identifying information includes such things as address, a current picture, and sexual offending history, whereas notification includes such things as having community meetings…

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…

clients besides my mentally ill ones. I can say that for sex offenders, I would know to be very strict with them and the same as the DV offenders (domestic violence). If I had my own caseload, and I was the officer for sex offenders or DV clients, I definitely know that my mind would differ and maybe, I would at different. I say act different because with some of my clients, I sometimes feel sorry for them, but I know if I had DV or sex offenders, I wouldn 't. I wouldn’t because it was very…

Discussion Bennel’s study examines the effective use of offender profiles during a criminal case. There is strong criticism toward the use of profiling in the justice system because of the ambiguity that surrounds many of the statements made by experts in profiling. Multiple personality traits made up of vague statements are frequently taken into perspective as part of these outlined criminal behaviours. The aforementioned ambiguity creates doubt in what may constitute an aspect of the…

The reality of being a registered sex offender comes with unfair and harsh consequences when having to live in a community with other residences. Sexual offenders come in various offenses and can commit a low level or high level sexually related crime. Based on the level of the offense most sexual crimes result in some length of incarceration or form of punishment. When sex offenders are released back into the community, it is the furthest thing from being free. A crime such as child pornography…

17 years old and he was 23 and later Bernardo married Homolka on June 29 1991. After their marriage it didn’t last like a normal couple for very long. There were video tapes that were recorded by Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmoka raping and killing young girls. Paul sexually abused about 3-7 girls every year from 1987-1989, When married to Karla Homolka he raped and killed 3 teenage virgins with Karla watching. It is believed that he chased after younger women because “it was women that were…

Psychological profiling has had a long history within the criminal justice field including the FBI. Many believe that this type of profiling has no usefulness in solving crimes, however the more that is learned about how a criminal thinks the better equipped to solve crimes sooner and prevent new crimes. Psychological profiling can be used to limit the amount of suspects for a given crime. While a psychological profile will help to solve a crime, having a solid crime scene examination is a…

Gary Ridgway is one of America’s most prominent serial killers. He killed for 18 years, until physical evidence was able to link him to murder. Over those years here was picked up for other crimes and released. It is because of him and other killers that America must become better at finding physical evidence. Gary was born in 1949, he is the middle child of three boys. His home life wasn’t completely upsetting, just the occasional heated argument between his parents. His IQ was tested at 82,…

Introduction In 1974, Ted Bundy embarked on a series of grisly murders that began in Seattle, Washington and in a period of over five years spread through Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida. His rampage took the lives of at least thirty five women, but there is a lot of controversy over this number. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never be known as experts predict that he killed at least 100 or more. He was known to be a serial killer who went on a killing spree after a…