Sexual Offender Laws

Research shows that fewer than 8 percent of the sex offenders completing the Sexual Offender Treatment Program return to prison. Sex Offender treatment is part of a comprehensive effort to increase community safety as a whole. Sex offender treatment is a vital key component of its Reentry Initiative, which is designed to help offenders start receivig the treatments, education and job training they need in prison so that they return to society making choices that will help keep them out of prison again. An estimated 95 percent of the sex offenders sentenced to prison in the end come back to the group.

2.4 Recidivism rates For many years, societies have been in the notion that sexual offenders may relapse between 95 percent and 98 percent of the cases. Presently and according to Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld, in their paper “Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender? Maybe Not” stated that a study found out that “the average member of the general public believes that 75 percent of sex offenders will relapse” meaning that the perception that sex offenders after complying with their incarceration time would still relapse is high within the society even though according to many researchers, recidivism rate levels usually dropped after incarceration. Many questions arise for individuals concerning sexual predators; can public authorities

What are the conditions that allow a juvenile to transfer into the adult court system? Nevertheless, there are times and situations that involve a juvenile to be transferred to the adult court system. Nonetheless, this transfer is done through a process called a waiver. Nevertheless, when a waiver is granted, the juvenile judge is waiving the protections provided by that of a juvenile court. Consequently, there are different considerations that a judge may consider when deciding if to transfer a juvenile to the adult court system.

Joseph’s overall progress in sex offender specific treatment continues to be poor. Joseph’s attendance overall has been good, he is compliant when asked to complete homework assignments and working through the Pathways workbook, but it is clear that he is a passive participant and is not putting forth the effort to make sustainable changes in his life. To date several approaches have been employed to engage Joseph in treatment, but these attempts have been met with resistance. As previously stated in his last report, his cognitive distortions appear to be deep rooted and this has impeded his ability internalize a sense of wrong doing with regard to his sexual offenses, as well as his other delinquent behaviors.

UNRESTRICTED USE OF DISCRETION However, a dominant problem with the use of discretion is found in its unrestricted use. Use of discretion causes the violation of individual human rights, specifically those demanding equal protection and due process of the law, safeguard from unreasonable stop searches, seizures, and safeguard against compelled self-incrimination. STOP AND SEARCH ON TODDLERS In addition, the fact that the police have made excessive use of its non-statutory powers to search tens of thousands of children, without any evidence they had committed a crime is another dominant problem.

Juvenile offenders often have an unstable or dysfunctional living situation or display psychological problems. For this reason, psychological evaluations are an essential part of juvenile court. A study done by Baglivio (2009) suggested that psychologists, and psychiatrists regularly use psychological evaluations of juvenile offenders to determine the recidivism of the individual. To reduce the risk of recidivism, juvenile court provides the offender with the necessary treatments needed, as determined through the psychological evaluation conducted by the health care expert. Juvenile court is geared toward rehabilitation of the offender, so courts often request psychological evaluations to assist in legal decisions (Viljoen, McLachlan, & Vincent, 2010).

In todays society, many civilians believe there is no, nor ever will be any hope to rehabilitate sex offenders. Little do they know criminologists, psychologists and researchers have found programs that prevent recidivism from occurring. Today, there is hope to rehabilitate sex offenders with help of five different national sex offender programs. These programs include; High Intensity National Sex Offenders Program, Moderate Intensity National Sex Offenders Program, National Sex Offender Maintenance Program, Tupiq Program for Inuit Men Offenders, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These programs are shown to have achieved great success, and will be further assessed throughout the essay.

Should some sex offenders be excluded from treatment? The question is particularly daunting since some studies seem to suggest that although treatment can reduce the probability of an offender committing a crime after being treated, it is impossible for adult offenders to be properly cured. An article in the Medical News Today explains that paedophilia and other sex crimes cannot be cured, and although the likelihood of an offender repeating his crimes drops forty percent after treatment, the end result of the treatment is that people are released into society who are just as likely to cause harm. Similarly, the Business Insider explains that since being a sex offender is not a medical issue it cannot be cured, and different measures can be

After being formally taken into custody, a prosecutor makes the decision on whether the juvenile should be released to their parent/guardian or sent to a detention center pending trial. Thousands and thousands of youth are sent to detention centers each year. According to the Justice Policy Institute in Washington D.C. “[d]etention is widely misapplied…because detention facilities are meant to temporarily house youths who are likely to reoffend before their trial or who are unlikely to appear for their court date, but many of the youths…do not meet these criteria” (Siegel & Worrall, 2015).

Sexual Assault Prevention A problem that I believe is extremely occurrent in our community, and many others, and that needs to be discussed is sexual assault on college campuses. Sexual assault is any sexual contact done by force or without consent, whether that is a touch, a kiss, or a sexual activity. This is an extremely prevalent problem in our society. The topic of sexual assault has been brought up a lot lately, especially after the case of Brock Turner, a university student, who attended a fraternity party and assaulted an unconscious woman.