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A descriptive study of offender on offender assaults in Pollsmoor Medium B Correctional Centre
… Correctional Centre, looking specifically at offender-on-offender assaults that occurred in Pollsmoor Medium B Correctional Centre, by looking at assault incident reports and investigations. Discourse and thematic analysis was applied to single out the nature and contexts of the assaults …
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Rhetoric, Legislation, and the Felony Offender
… effectively resulted in the relegation of felony offenders within a class-based society. Utilizing two theories, class structure theory and distributive justice theory, an understanding was gained as to how the rhetoric utilized for the enactment of the VCCLE has affected the lives of felony …
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Picture Perfect: Predicting the Model Ex-Offender
… latter goal has encouraged a renewed interest in offender reentry and reintegration. There are a multitude of reasons why offenders find themselves back in the criminal justice system; however, by identifying these issues, appropriate measures can be taken to reduce recidivism. This research uses …
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Sex, Violence and the Female Sex Offender
A female sex offender is any female who engages in criminal sexual penetration, and/or criminal sexual contact with a minor and is charged with a criminal offense within a court of law (New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules, Unannotated, 2012) Early research purports that there is a high prevalence …
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Assessing Collateral Consequences Accompanying Sex Offender Registration
<p>Sex Offenders are often the most feared group of offenders. In response to this fear, sex offender registries were created as a method for monitoring convicted offenders and for providing communities with a sense of security by publicizing information about potential predators nearby. The …
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Perceptions Of Legal Policy And Sex Offender Treatment
<p>Sex offender policy, treatment, and public perception are greatly intertwined in the numerous policies in place regarding sex offenders. These policies tend to reflect the underlying perceptions and myths about sex offenders than the reality of sexual offenses and treatment. These perceptions …
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Initial Development of the Sex Offender Attitude Scale.
… and unwarranted negative attitudes toward sex offenders, little hope remains for released sex offenders to successfully reintegrate into society. Therefore, it is in the interest of society that we understand the nature of views of sex offenders so that attempts can be made to promote maximal …
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Sex offender registry acts: Deterrence or moral panic?
<p>Sex offender registries were created as a means for law enforcement to track rapists and pedophiles to help quickly resolve sex cases. It evolved into a much larger system with many consequences. This evolution has been hastened by a moral panic based on bad facts and fueled by strong public …
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Young People and Staff Perspectives on Offender Rehabilitation
It is important that evidence-based interventions that address the dynamic risk factors of offending are implemented to reduce youth offending. Equally important, is the ability of service providers to engage young people to attend and participate in interventions that elicit positive change. The …
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Archival offender records analysis: examining patient abuses in Tennessee
… and race) related to health care practitioner offenders and the dependent variable (types of abuse) in Tennessee from 2006 to 2015. A total of 227 practitioners who were either licensed, certified, or trained in their perspective professional practice or job level, convicted of abuse, …
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Sex Offenders' Perceptions Of North Dakota's Sex Offender Policies
<p>Registered sex offenders in North Dakota were interviewed regarding their experiences with being on the registry. Results from the coded transcripts indicate that offenders felt the registry made finding housing and employment more difficult. Additionally, participants reported feeling the …
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Public Perceptions Regarding Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Management
… of the public's knowledge and perceptions on sex offenders, sex offenses, and sex offender management policies. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 282 students at East Tennessee State University. Along with the basic demographic variables, respondent's field of study …
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A behavioral portrait of the attempted adolescent parricide offender
… with actuals. Actual and attempted parricide offenders were found to share many variables with other high-risk or at-risk youths. Future research may wish to focus on some of these common variables. Recommendations for further study of attempted adolescent parricide were presented.
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The Politics of Fear: The Dubious Logic Underlying Sex Offender Registration Statutes - Proposals for Restoring Measures of Judicial Discretion to Sex Offender Management
Existing sex offender management legislation generally represents an emotional response to a few well-publicized incidents involving child-victims. Federal and state legislative initiatives mandating sex offender registration for all defendants convicted of a sexually-oriented offense lack an …
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The effects of labeling and stereotype threat on offender reintegration
After their release from prison, offenders are faced with many hardships that hinder their reintegration efforts. Often, offenders are stereotyped and face community exclusion due to their criminal record. Much of the literature on reintegration has focused on the way in which society stereotypes …
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The effects of OWI victim impact courses on offender recidivism
1 PDF file (vii, 62 leaves ; 28 cm.)
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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms
Working with four Washington State county jails to administer surveys to currently incarcerated inmates, we investigated locus of control and beliefs in the likelihood of continued legal involvement as possible antecedents to criminal recidivism. The surveys examined whether there was any …
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