Some of these factors include conflict within the family, a lack of adequate supervision and/or rules, a distinct lack of parent-child attachment, instability, poor home life quality, parental expectations, out-of-home placements and inconsistent discipline (Shumaker, 1997). ...
In a recent report of the National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence, sexual violence was defined in the following terms: Sexual violence includes a range of violent behaviours. It can include unwanted touching, sexual harassment and intimidation, coerced sexual activity, sexual assault and rape and can include other physical violence and threat to life. ... Questions relating to sexual assault are only asked of females aged 18 years and over, and include such things as whether they have been a victim of sexual assault in the last 12 months, how many times they were sexually as...
Two primary factors contributing to the persistence and growth of this crime include low risk due to relatively lenient sentences and high profitability. ... Another theory asserts that certain criminals are born into environments that tend to generate criminal behavior including extreme poverty or minority groups (Sacco and Kennedy, 2002). ... A good example of tertiary prevention includes victim-offender mediation, rehab centers for marijuana consumers, and invention strategies to prevent bullying. ...
Introduction Trayvon Martin, Michael Dunn, Oscar Grant and Marisa Alexander are all victims of a failed justice system. The verdicts in these cases have been less than acceptable, and this has caused people to ask more questions about our "justice " system. These cases and the dwindling faith in o...
Other problems also include discrimination that takes place in court due to lack of research, systems being too ready to send juveniles over to the adult system and ignoring personality traits that form patterns, in order to better help the juveniles. ...
The purpose of this essay is to look at how the media is a source of 'knowledge' to present crime and victimisation and how the media invokes 'moral panics' about crime and lawless behaviour. There are a number of individuals who think when a person commits a crime they are punished for that crime. However, there is more to crime than just punishment. The media plays an important role in the construction of crime and lawless behaviour. Society's perception of victims, criminals, deviants and punishment is influenced by their portrayal in the mass media. ...
Indeed, "statistical studies indicate that prosecutors are more likely to pursue full prosecution, file more severe charges, and seek more stringent penalties in cases involving minority defendants than in cases involving nonminority defendants."8 This discrimination becomes even more evident, and disturbing, when examining the death penalty. ...
