Young offenders often come from broken homes; their problems are deeper than stealing or drug abuse. ... Statistics report that when juveniles are incarcerated with adults they are four times more likely to be raped and sexually attacked, eight times more likely to commit suicide, and twice as likely to be attacked with a weapon. ... The staff that the citizens" taxes pay to do what abuse young kids. ... Studies have shown that victims of rape and sexual assault are more likely to exhibit aggression especially towards women and children. ...

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Some children may be experiencing physical, mental, and sexual abuse, and may be acting out the only way they know how. ... The second most common offense is drug abuse. ... Children are also abusing over the counter cold medicine. ...

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Running head: COMPARISON OF SEXUAL AND VIOLENT OFFENDERS The Comparison of Sexual and Violent Offenders Abstract The purpose of this experiment is to gain a better understanding of how sexual offenders and violent offenders are both the same and different from one another. ... The Comparison of Sexual and Violent Offenders There are very evident differences between the average sexual offender and the average violent offender, but there are also several similarities between the two. ... It is assumed that rapist and child molesters...

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Introduction In criminal law, rape is defined as sexual assault on a person without the consent of the victim. People often hear of cases of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse without ultimately realizing the meaning behind it. ... As I speak for myself I believe that this one of the reasons I didn't speak about my sexual abuse until years after it had occurred. ... I believe that men admit to being sexually abused much less then women out of fear of being seen as unmanly. ... We have accepted a culture which in part protects perpetrators instead of helping the victimiza...

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What are values? Values are a set of beliefs, ideas, and morals. Honesty, respect towards others, and learning to solve problems without resorting to violence are examples of values. Values helps a person determine what is right from what is wrong. Values help to build a person's character and perso...

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This is because the media keeps exposing them to themes such as violence, drug abuse, sexual violence, murder and suicide, which may be heavily reinforced and normalized by the frequency of their portrayal. ... Despite music videos" popularity among teenagers, many adults criticize the medium as studies show that music videos often contain violence, sexism, suicide, substance abuse and inappropriate sexual behaviour [5]. ... Last of all, music videos often show images that are sexually depicted. Women are seen as sexual objects in music videos. ... However, there were "no studies documenti...

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Throughout the process of this report I have done a little bit of research on the juveniles being sentenced to the death penalty and a high percentage of juveniles have suffered from all, or a combination of, the following abuses; mental abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, drug addiction, abandonment and severe poverty. These kinds of abuses may cause serious distress for the children involved. Children who are physically or sexually abused may be functioning at an emotional level close to the age when the trauma occurred. The experience of an abused and traumatized child is on...

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Over twenty percent of the world's women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a man. ... Stereotyping abusers as minorities or underprivileged society members are also a mistake considering that abusers emerge from all different types of nationalities and social strata. ... When each year over seven hundred thousand women are raped in the United States alone and sixty seven percent of rural living women and fifty six percent of urban living women are physically abused globally, something must be done. In South Africa, violence against women rose nearly forty percent in the las...

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Thousands of people everyday make mistakes such as murder, theft, child endangerment, fraud, and drug abuse. ... In another instance, a teacher at Durango, Carolyn Wilson, was charged for engaging in sexual relations with a student. ...

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Juvenile delinquency studies have also found significantly high rates of alcoholism, drug dependence, mental disorders, and sexual deviance among juveniles who's parents have been incarcerated. ... Statistically, chances that a child will suffer with low self esteem, precocious sexual activity, greater delinquent like behavior and difficulty established gratifying lasting adult heterosexual relationships is significantly higher for kids involved in divorce (Bisnaire 1990). ... Adopted children have a higher incidence of juvenile delinquency, sexual promiscuity and running away from home t...

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Many harsh conditions exist in prisons and females are more likely to be abused, develop mental problems and acquire sexually transmitted diseases. ... Epidemiologists have linked high incarceration rates to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, since the majority of those incarcerated are men, leaving a prevalence of females and greater occurrences of unprotected sex. ...

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In some cases a lot of the convicted suffer from abuses, such as physical or emotional. ... A lot of the people could have went through physical abuse from peers or parents. ... One other type is the "Hedonistic Killer", which means this person obtains sexual satisfaction through homicides. ...

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Abused children are often neglected, terrorized, and living in fear. ... An abused and neglected child will harbor the emotions of: hurt, hate, and revenge. ... There is little room for compromise and much room for abuse. ... This leads to the juvenile being exposed to the cycle of more physical violence and sexual abuse by older adults. ...

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Politicians and Police do not want to be seen as advocates for child pornography, so they will not tolerate any instance dealing with the abuse or neglect of children. This is a sexual hysteria that needs to been seen on a different level. ...

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Programs like PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) established in 2003 to deal with sexual assault of prisoners and to identify would-be predators as successfully reduced the number of rape cases drastically. ... The Texas department of criminal justice established a safe prison program to protect inmates and staff and has zero tolerance policy towards all forms of sexual abuse and harassment. ...

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Many had grown up in backgrounds where serious violence, drug and alcohol abuse are common experience. ... They were born in poverty and chaos, and some of them may even mentally scarred by violence and sexual abuse. ...

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Juvenile crime is a rapidly growing problem in the United States. We are seeing more and more "kids" committing horrible crimes. There may be some underlying reasons why these kids of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year olds are committing "adult crimes" such as armed robbery, rape and murder, but ther...

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Juvenile crime is a rapidly growing problem in the United States. We are seeing more and more "kids" committing horrible crimes. There may be some underlying reasons why these kids of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year olds are committing "adult crimes" such as armed robbery, rape and murder, but ther...

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Annotated Bibliography The Death Penalty for Juveniles The following research draws upon different opinions and perceptions for and against the further enactment of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The various articles that are presented draw conclusions on the pros and cons of using the death penalty as punishment for young offenders. Numerous views surfaced in my research such as the views of president Bush, prominent authors and court officials as well as the views of individual states. In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing p...

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POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS OF PARENTAL ARREST AND INCARCERATION OF CHILDREN Development State Developments Characteristics Developmental Tasks Effects of Separation Infancy (0-2 years) Limited perception, mobility Total dependency Development of trust and attachment Impaired parent-child bonding Early Childhood (2-6 years) Increased perception and mobility and improved memory Greater exposure to environment; ability to imagine Development of sense of autonomy, independence, and initiative Inappropriate separation anxiety Impaired socioemotional development Acute traumatic stress reactions...

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Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ...

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Are we just warehousing our juvenile offenders, until they can be released to commit more serious crimes that will send them to an adult correction facility? "The rate of US juvenile incarcerations is 300 per 100,000 – the highest in the world" (Intent to Reform: Alternatives to Detention and ...

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Juvenile Reform: On the Right Track? Fifteen people were found dead, and over twenty-three were left wounded. Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. Although this is not an everyday occurrence, juvenile delinquency...

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I do not want our prsions to be violent places where men must cope daily with sexual violence, successful gangs, and severe degradation. ... I also realise that there are lots of complications here, not the least of which is the potential for corruption and abuse. ...

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Children that witness domestic violence in their homes are likely to turn out the same way as their parents, especially if they got physically abused also. ... Homeless people are at risk of drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases (J. ...

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