The case In this particular case study, the client is a 15-year-old minor. She has suffered neglect and abuse and has lived with toxic parents and guardians for a while. As of today, she has had residence in 8 separate communities. Her problems start Continue Reading...
Child Sexual Abuse According to the oxford advanced learners dictionary, child sexual abuse is the cruel treatment of a minor especially sexually. The case of an offender of child sexual abuse can be categorized into three clusters which comprise of Continue Reading...
Sexual Assault and Bullying: The Struggles for Power Within Them Sexual assault and bullying are social ills that have taken place for quite some time, regardless of society and culture. When one considers these phenomena, there are actually quite a Continue Reading...
Children Being Charged as Adults The Negative Consequences of Treating Minors as Adults in Criminal Cases "Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the crime;" this is an old, yet still very controversial statement when contemplating whether or Continue Reading...
Sexual Assualt Sentencing for Sexual Contact with a Minor Charges of sexual misconduct with a minor are very serious. These charges, if proven true, are likely to carry a sentence that will include some jail time. In the case of 34-year-old Doug Ka Continue Reading...
Nor is she eligible to receive Medicaid, based on her minimum wage income. This has put the minimum wage earning single parent in a situation where she must devote her minimum wage to food and healthcare, if healthcare is available to her through h Continue Reading...
Child Abuse: Child Abuse Reporting Who are some of the individuals who are mandated to report suspected child abuse? What are some of the conditions under which mandated reporters must report? The California Child Abuse and Reporting Act (CANRA) pl Continue Reading...
Child Abuse Case Studies The 70-year-old Asian-American woman The 70-year-old Asian-American woman has been having severe arguments with her daughter, and she reports that her daughter slapped her giving her a black eye. She does not want this info Continue Reading...
Both are needed in order to create the right balance of concern and caring that is required in raising well-adjusted and happy children. When love and discipline are mixed together correctly, a child will be mentally healthy, self-assured, responsib Continue Reading...
The second includes verbal and emotional assaults including persistent patterns of belittling, denigrating, scapegoating, and other nonphysical, but clearly hostile or rejecting behaviors, such as repeated threats of beatings, sexual assault, and ab Continue Reading...
Sexual Predators Prosecution TOO HARSH AND DISADVANTAGEOUS Sexual Predators' Prosecution Sexual predators are persons who sexually victimize other persons (ILGA, 2009). They may be rapists, molesters, peeping toms or sexual deviants. A sexual devi Continue Reading...
Promoting the understanding of cultural differences is crucial, because a large number of child abuse and neglect cases involve allegations against minorities. As a result, in some areas a psychologist may interview the involved caregivers and chil Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION Conceptual Paper Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
Prostitution: Causes and Consequences Prostitution has been termed as one of the oldest professions, with its history going back to as early the ancient period. Indeed, records of most ancient societies -- from Greeks and Romans to Jews, Hebrews, As Continue Reading...
Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents have more Problems than Children Raised by Different-Sex or Single Parents As more and more states legalize same-sex marriages, there is growing concerning among many proponents and critics alike about the effect Continue Reading...
Pornography & Children There is considerable research evidence that pornography, especially child pornography, results in adversely affecting the psychological development of children, with far reaching consequences in terms of their ability to Continue Reading...
Human Rights and Child Prostitution in Haiti The Republic of Haiti is a Caribbean country occupying smaller portion of Hispaniola Island. It shares the island with Dominican which is equally another Caribbean country with population of just over 600 Continue Reading...
Each day, thousands of New Yorkers experience violence at the hands of someone they love. But only a fraction of victims know where to get help" (p. 3). Moreover, many domestic violence victims are coerced by the perpetrators into not testifying ag Continue Reading...
North Carolina's Approach To Sexual Predators Recently, North Carolina struck down North Carolina's ban on registered sex offenders using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. had an issue with Cooper notes that there are still laws on the b Continue Reading...
9). To help such victims, the Florida Department of Health had set up several billboards in Tampa and the billboards say, "Sex without consent is rape." Such billboards are hoped to helped the victims to come forward and identify the offender so that Continue Reading...
Disease Control and Prevention (2016), as many as one out of every four children have experienced some type of abuse: including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Exposure to pornography, whether accidental or not, can be harmful to children's ps Continue Reading...
Majority nevertheless are unable to fulfill this obligation even during the time of peace. The rights of women appear to be improperly safeguarded and instances of rape are by and large unreported and the national records of prosecuting sexual viole Continue Reading...
Crimes Committed Against Persons in the United States The United States is one of the world's super powers. Like any other country, it experiences the challenge of crimes committed against people too. The FBI has shown that the rate of violent c Continue Reading...
1. The Michigan Community Child Watch Program is a program dedicated to helping deter crimes against children. Being a Michigan based program, it helps spread education and awareness of child victims. However, the program has it weaknesses. 2. Estab Continue Reading...
Administering Competency Screening Tests on a Minor Balancing between Competency Screening Test (CST) expectations and demands of a given situation is normally an uphill task for CST administrators. A CST tool administers tests on juvenile or mental Continue Reading...
Medina, J. (2013). U.S. Charges 18 Sheriff's Officers in Inquiry Into Misconduct at Los Angeles Jails. Nytimes.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017, from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/us/18-charged-in-inquiry-into-los-angeles-sheriffs-office.html Per Continue Reading...
I also predicted that the difference in heterosocial competence between child molesters and non-sex-offenders would be significantly larger than the difference between rapists and non-sex-offenders. This hypothesis was also supported (Dreznick, 2003 Continue Reading...
victims and defendants rights extended by the Criminal Justice System. Followed by introduction is the comparison of both sides detailing the rights of victims and defendants by the Criminal Justice System. Conclusion given at the end shows that the Continue Reading...
In examining sentencing options, judges are free to look at mitigating circumstances that might limit the term of the sentence but they are also free to look at factors surrounding the case that might serve to enhance the sentence. Once such enhanc Continue Reading...
Not all physical force can be characterized as violence, and not all violence is created equal. There are numerous controversies regarding definitions of violence and abuse and no clear consensus among researchers on how to characterize acts as one Continue Reading...
Domestic violence is an ongoing experience of physical, psychological, and even sexual abuse in the home that is often a method used by one adult to establish control and power over another person (Flitcraft et al., 1992). Exposure by children to mar Continue Reading...
Juveniles Since biblical times, children have been mentioned and admonished about social transgressions. The first man and woman, according to the Christian Holy Bible suggest that Adam and Eve, both children of God, were in trouble from the outset; Continue Reading...
Abused children develop antisocial behavior that persists through three continuous generations. Such behavior grows out of angry, aggressive parenting and an overall negative home environment, perpetuated by sibling collusion, economic and biological Continue Reading...
The first issue is the gender of the suspect. Research found if the suspect is a female she is les apt to be viewed as a predator, or a threat to children. This can be noted in several recent cases in the United States in which attractive female t Continue Reading...
Other determining factors influencing long-term affects of abuse to a child include: Whether the child's mother is supportive and child can confide in her. Whether the child's experiences success at school Whether the child has nurturing relation Continue Reading...
Victimology In recent years, information about the widespread problems of sexual abuse have become more readily available and less secretive than ever before in Western culture history. Rape and molestation are reported on the news and to police age Continue Reading...
Concealing to Confronting Sex Abuse It is one thing to consider child sexual abuse from the perspective of the criminal offender. Sexual abuse almost certainly qualifies as an anti-social behavior that is transmitted from generation to generation. Continue Reading...
Juvenile facilities provide intensive and specialized therapeutic programs with brilliant results. The juvenile placed in juveniles' corrections enjoy an education-centered curriculum and trained staff that functions exclusively with the juvenile o Continue Reading...
Juveniles and the Legal Process Juvenile crime is a problem that affects every society. In 2010, around 500,000 juveniles were arrested for drug abuse violations in the U.S. Some of the crimes committed by juveniles are robbery, vandalism, assault, Continue Reading...
