Child Protection And Safety Act

Current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within Northern Ireland affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.

After Adam had died, John, Adam’s father started the T.V program, America’s Most Wanted (Standiford, n.d., p. Page 103) President George W. Bush created the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. So then the penalties for crime involving kids will be strengthened. The Act that was passed after Adam’s death makes every state to apply exact information for when posting offender data on the internet.

He was taken and killed. The body was found separate from the head. The killer was never identified. Also, it was not determined if he was sexually assaulted due to the condition if the body. The Adam Walsh Act was established in 2006 by then President Bush. The basic premise behind this was is that it requires sexual offenders to notify law enforcement of their whereabouts on a regular basis depending on their level. The federal guidelines established three classes of sex offenders (Doerner & Lab, 2012). It is unclear whether this act is valid or not, mostly because the act has only been implemented in 17 states and 63 tribal nations. The reasons vary for why all states have not enacted the act as of yet. One reason is the cost of enacting this act. Research has shown that community notification and registry laws exacerbate the stress felt by any person released from prison, and such stress can trigger new offenses (Justice Policy, 2008). These are real concerns that can happen from acts or laws ion the offenders. However, the public’s safety comes

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was enacted in 1974 and focused predominantly on cases of sexual abuse. When the law was put into in effect the number of reported cases of sexual assault/abuse rose dramatically. Currently, all 50 states have enacted similar laws. Laws such as these have caused controversies throughout the nation for decades.One of the biggest? Should we as a nation enforce such laws if they take away an abuser’s rights.While it may seem like laws like these come with good reason, there are those who oppose such rulings. A majority of these laws do not allow sex offenders to live a certain distance from playgrounds, schools, and parks. Those in opposition claim that such laws have forced sex offenders to become homeless and increased their chances of becoming a repeat

          In the summer of 1994 in Hamilton, New Jersey, a small girl by the name of Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a convicted pedophile, Jesse Timmendequas. The shocking crime rocked not only the small town, but the entire country. A desperate mother told reporters “Please, please help us find our daughter, she’s a wonderful girl ... she’s only seven. Let her come back.” (www.crimelibrary.com) No mother should ever have to beg for her daughter’s life. People thought that everyone had a right to know if a child molester was living in their midst. Dick Zimmer, then a state senator in New Jersey, and later a one-term congressman,

In recent years our newspapers, televisions, and radios have been inundated with news stories about sexual offenders and sexual predators. Stories such as the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klass, Carlie Brucia, Amber Hagerman, and Jessica Lunsford have shocked the nation. Sex offenders and predators commit despicable acts; however, their acts seem more despicable when they are committed upon the most venerable members of our society, our children. Even with the new Jessica Lunsford legislation in Florida some citizens feel that it is not enough to keep their communities safe. Many cities are now looking at limiting the areas in which sex offenders and predators can live in hopes of protecting children. Many

Sexual assault occurs every two minutes in the United States. Sexual violence against women is still endemic in the United States. Statistics show nearly one in five women have been sexually assaulted. Managing sex offenders is still an issue in the criminal justice system. Repeat offenders are extremely difficult to monitor. The national legislature monitoring system contains an absence of effective research in monitoring sex offenders. Sexual offender registration and notification Act (SORNA) operates in all the US states and territories. The objective is to monitor and track sex offenders by law enforcement. Also they provide information to the public and the communities about the offenders. For example, the National registry allows the public to be informed of a registered offender and their demographics.

There have been many federal acts passed in correspondence with sex offenses that illicit feat with the public. There are many different types of ways in which Levenson & colleagues’ (2007) describes the perceptions that the public has based on certain factors. For instance, in relation to the perception about the sex offender notification system, a survey produced results of around 80 percent in favor of these registries, because these individuals felt safer in their communities knowing who was in their neighborhood. Further, due to this fear that resonated in the early 1990’s communities do have tools such as residential restrictions, civil commitment, notification procedures, etc. that aid in the protection. However, there are myths associated with sex offenders, for example legislation often states that the reasoning for new laws and regulations is due to the high recidivism rates. However, sex offenders have significantly lower recidivism rates than believed. Also, there are countless people who do not believe that sex offenders can be assisted with techniques from a psychological standpoint. Most people think that these offenders cannot be treated, however, there is research being conducted that is promising. Finally, there is a common misconception that sex offenders kill their victims, especially children more often than other killers, however this is not true.

Every Child Matters 2003 and Children Act 2004 updated in 2010 to Help Children Achieve More

Child abuse has been a big issue in the world for a long time. There has not always been child protective services like there is now. Children would be abused and neglected and nothing was being done because it was not being reported. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was the world’s first organization in the late 1800s which was dedicated totally to child protection (Myers, 2008).

What is child abuse? From the word “abuse” we can understand that it is some sort of a maltreatment of a child, causing harm and damage both to his physical and psychological well-being. At the Federal level, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) describes child abuse and neglect as: “any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.” Child abuse is a very substantial and widely spread problem in U.S. affecting children of any age, gender, race, background or income, with more than 1.8 million investigations done every year and on average, killing more than 5 children every day. The main issue of child abuse is that the abuser is usually someone a child loves or depends on (a parent, sibling, coach, neighbor, etc.), who violates child’s trust putting personal interests first, therefore official numbers of how many children suffer maltreatment might be not accurate enough as remarkable amount of these cases go unreported. Each case of child abuse is unique, with a lot of individual factors involved, nevertheless, we can distinguish some of the common causes, such as poverty, lack of education, depression, mental or physical health

This was the biggest action the United States had taken to stop the issue of child exploitation. Many elected officials and organizations were a part of creating this law and getting it passed by congress. The bill was sponsored mainly by Orrin Hatch, along with many other cosponsors like Senator Leahy, Senator Bennett, and many more elected senators (Civic Impulse, 2016). In addition FEMA, a government agency under the Department of Homeland Security that supports the end of child exploitation; and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children which strive towards subduing child abuse, also supported the passing of the bill (FEMA, 2016). One of the biggest factors towards the creation of the PROTECT Act was the case of Amber Hagerman, who went missing and was never found which got people to want the creation of a child protection law (Missing Kids, 2016). This also created the Amber Alert Program, a program designed to send out a nationwide search for children. Once the law was passed, congress never tried to change or amend the law, even till this day (GPO,

By the year 1967, all U.S. states had child abuse reporting laws. “Child abuse reporting laws and enhanced awareness of child abuse produced an increase in intervention” (Myers, 2013). As reporting laws came into affect, more and more cases of child abuse and neglect were shown. By the mid 1970s, over 60,000 child abuse cases were reported and the extremely high rate of children in foster care alarmed government officials. In 1980, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) was passed. This act required every state to make reasonable efforts in keeping children with their families, and when removing the child was not avoidable, the child was required to have a plan to be placed back in the home or have their parents’ rights revoked. For the children whom returning home was not an option, Congress offered financial incentives for adoption. This effort to preserve the families was a main objective of AACWA. An influential investigation pertaining to this was done by Henry S. Mass and Richard E. Engler, as explained by Sribnick (2011). They concluded that many children were living a majority of their childhood years in foster care and institutions. Their findings showed that if a child stayed in foster care for more than a year and a half, it was not likely that he or she would ever be reunited with his or her family or be adopted. In response to this, the Child Welfare League of America lobbied for child welfare workers to consider

The number of registered sex offenders have increasingly grew over the years. Every day you see a man or women added to the registry for crimes against women and mostly children. The sex offender registries biggest and main focus is to keep the people in the community in each city and state informed and protected. ”Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society.” Baker, J, Brannon, Y, N., Fortney. , Levenson, J.S. (“Public Perceptions about Sex Offenders and Community Protection”). The sex offender registry is based solely on protecting the public from being a victim

There are many procedures, policies, legislations and statutory guidance to support the safety and welfare of children and young people. They have been developed over many years to recognise the rights of children and young people, protect vulnerable children and young people and after independent inquiries of fatal abuse cases, to recognise the failures of multi agencies and support services.