Essays Tagged: "Recidivism"
Forensic Psychiatry In the Criminal Justice System
l EvidenceC. Acute vs. ChronicIV Sex OffendersA. Control and DominanceB. Assessment and Treatment1. Recidivism and Dangerousness2. Victim DamageC. Children Falling Prey1. Offender's Have little Intere ... ealth facility forassessment and treatment.The objective is to predict whether the sex offender may recidivism and if he isconsidered dangerous. (Dr. Quinsey, University of Queens, Offender Pattern An ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Young Offender Boot Camps.
e aftercare programs which lead to substandard results as opposed to those high intentions of lower recidivism. By 1993 there were forty-six reported in thirty states. This number grew increasingly to ... gram varies these goals in order to obtain the maximum positive potential results possible.Rates of recidivism can be dependant on the types of offenders allowed to participate in the program, and the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
This paper discusses the evolution of the death penalty in the US and arguments for and against its application to juveniles.
ble for delinquent acts while providing treatment, rehabilitation, and programs designed to prevent recidivism. Juvenile courts have recognized that there are developmental differences between adults ... ntions geared toward serious and chronic juvenile offenders have had positive effects on subsequent recidivism rates. These programs and services recognize that children are malleable and that researc ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
This essay describes how the prison corrections system has utilized technology to their advantage in parole and probation
actice. But something does need to be done to relieve the hardships on today's correction officers. Recidivism is increasing drastically with the growing number of people placed on parole, another det ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Methods for monitoring drug offenders
ng that more than 30% of the prisoners confined are drug users, and those users have a high rate of recidivism upon release. New methods are being implemented to deal with these offenders in lieu of i ... d crime, offenders sentenced to incarceration for substance related offenses exhibit a high rate of recidivism once they are released." (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1996)The main method of monit ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Muslim-Christian Relations in the Philippines: Redefining the Conflict
g stirred murky is the regard of the Muslims against the Christian Filipinos and vice-versa.The recidivism in the Muslim-Christian encounter in the country has raised a major question whether the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Australia's Prison System
activity in offenders lives keeps continuing and society doesn't even know its not being protected.Recidivism is the only way we can ever measure to what extent that rehabilitation can take place in ... o did not have the intervention and its statistics are even better when compared with both the US's recidivism rate of approximately 40% and Australia's of 53%.This study does not tout the bible as th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
What are the merits and demerits of a crime control strategy based on treatments and rehabilitation?
r to indicate that in fact 'prison doesn't work'. Home Office policy now reflects a need to prevent recidivism as prisons reach crisis levels but are these programmes effective? Research has produced ... the offender back into society. By looking at the causes of criminal activity in an attempt to stop recidivism, rehabilitation is seen to address recidivism rates by re-educating, reintroducing societ ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Tri-Valley Herald Article Summary: Locked-Up Potential
nia's jail system (the most violent in the nation), experience post traumatic stress disorder. The "recidivism rate is 75 percent," as well. Muhammad, a Muslim minister, believes that "these are young ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Overcrowding in America's Prisons: Can Repeat Offenders Be Rehabilitated
tions. This overcrowding has increased the cost to operate prisons at alarming rates. Due to a high recidivism rate, many experts believe that lack of rehabilitation has played a great role in this in ... cent between 1980 and 1994. Many factors have led to this increase such as mandatory sentencing and recidivism of offenders. Many in the field believe that lack of rehabilitation training geared towar ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Habitual Offender Laws - How do they Operate in Reality?
t to protect themselves against habitual offenders. Special legislation was elaborated to deal with recidivism and the punishment for such criminals became harsher.Who is a habitual offender? For exam ... cs after the penalties increasing.SOURCES:1. Encyclopedia Britannica. 20062. Eisenberg, M. (1997). "Recidivism of Sex Offenders: Factors to Consider in Release Decisions." The State of Texas. Criminal ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Does Punishment Deter Crime?
by that law; especially: a gross violation of law" (2006 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated) and finally recidivism "a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially: relapse ... just a small step above barbarianism, and it does not help to reform the criminal which can lead to recidivism.Deterrence is defined as "the inhibition of criminal behavior by fear especially of punis ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Drug Courts: The Return of Rehabilitation
efendant's substance abuse behavior. In theory, the change in substance abuse behaviors will reduce recidivism and substance abuse use/relapse. Under this concept and in exchange for the possibility o ... age - saving jail space for violent offenders; turning offenders into productive citizens; reducing recidivism; and strengthening supervision of participants in drug treatment - has played well in bot ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Time to put sexual abuse in pe
an average span of over six years.Although an Irish Times editorial two years ago asserted that the recidivism rate for sex offenders was over 90 per cent, the evidence in recent years increasingly po ... e conclusion that treatment does work. A major study of almost 30,000 sex offenders in 1996 found a recidivism rate of 19 per cent for rapists and 13 per cent for child molesters. In fact, recidivism ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Dually Adjudicated Youth
ability to apply the research conducted in their jurisdiction in an effort to improve their system.Recidivism is a factor that is frequently utilized to measure the effectiveness of interventions acr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Views on Victims' Rights Movement
stead, their prison time turned them into hardened and angry criminals that set up “a cycle of recidivism that serves neither them nor society” (Delgado 2000, p. 751). Even if the victim ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Rehabilitation or Retribution?
ll not employ those who do not have knowledge or job skills which will deteriorate the situation of recidivism. Therefore, rehabilitation should be the main purpose of prisons, for it promotes the hum ... nc., 2007). Contrarily, if prisons do not provide educational materials, then the possibilities for recidivism will be very great because of the rejection of society.While some dissenters controvert t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Uncaptive Minds
eased in October 2003, he founded an organization in New York with his wife called Citizens Against Recidivism." (Buruma 1). Buruma's goal was to capture the essence and give us knowledge of how relea ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues