Repeat Offenders

Not only this but, “offenders who commit new offenses after court contact are at risk for a variety of poor developmental and life course outcomes, including school failure, out of home placements, occupational marginality, and long-term involvement in criminal activity” (Schwalbe 2004). As seen here, this is a downward spiral. Active reform has never before been at such a demand. As recidivism and juvenile delinquency continues to increase, not only will national crime rates and juvenile prison populations inflate, but the diminishing of an educated, safe, and economically stable society will also be affected regrettably. If juveniles whom continue to commit repeat criminal offenses lack school initiative, family support, and job exposure, than relatively as recidivism and juvenile criminal activity increases, our nation’s standard of living will consequently lower.

Incidents like abuse from family members, bullying, neglect, and sexual abuse are the most common. Repeated abuse can lead to psychological damage and emotional scarring. Not only are traumatic psychological experiences causing these juveniles to commit violent crimes. Situations, where children have poor education, a household without discipline, peer pressure, inadequate role models, low income, and substance abuse coupled with the wrong environment, can lead to a life of crime. These negative influences guide these juveniles on the wrong path towards crime. However, it does not mean these juveniles cannot succeed; it is however up to the juvenile to make the correct choices in their

The article is stimulating to know that others states take action quickly to shield children from further abuse in their homes. The Indiana's Child Protective Services (CPS), offers a service to prevent out-home placement, and assistance to rejoin children with their families in situations where the children can return home (Indiana, 2015). This service is good, if the parents are able to resume the responsibility of taking care of their children.

There are many efforts that are made each day to ensure safety of children living in the state of Mississippi. The MS Department of Child Protection Services (MDCPS) is at the center of every community’s child protection efforts. MDCPS conducts initial assessments of reports of child abuse and/or neglect. The agency also provides other prevention services to children and families where maltreatment has occurred or is likely to occur. The adaptation of these services examines underlying conditions. These underlying conditions consist of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual molestation, poverty and cultural beliefs. MDCPS utilizes tools such as Comprehensive Family Assessments (CFA) and Family Service

Although the federal government controls the funding that will enhance the family relationship by supplying services, this unfortunately does not always rectify the family situation. If the system in place doesn’t work and the parent isn’t ready to have the child returned, this will leave a negative impact on the parent-child relationship. The parent may become frustrated and resort to behaviors such as substance abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse jeopardizing the parent-child relationship. As stated in Foster Care at issue, by Debra Bloom, family reunification is less likely to occur when parents are involved in the correctional system. Reporting that 16 % of mothers with children in foster care are arrested within 18 months, with the arrest occurring after the child has been placed in foster care. Suggesting that child welfare look beyond the system when developing potential outcomes.

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

Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted(Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhood's destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault for the rest of their lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their

would teach offenders a lesson and reduce their chances to recidivate. Stevens and Ward (1997) said that “retuning unprepared, uneducated, and unusually individuals to the community is the biggest threat to the public safety” (p. 106). Stevens and Ward conducted an experiment to examine the effects of education on incarcerated offenders. The experiment contained 60 student-inmates who had earned their associate or bachelor degree while incarcerated. The participants were inmates release from the North Carolina Department of Corrections (p. 108). The participants were tracked and their recidivism rate were compared with nonstudent inmates. Also, they gathered data from education and recidivism studies of thirty states. The result demonstrated

It is not fair to have mentally ill offenders in prison. But not only is it not fair, it is also not right for them. How is it fair someone who can not control their mind be put in jail? They do not deserve to be in there. They need help, they need someone to show them what is right, they just need someone to be there for help .

At the same time the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintain public safety, help offenders achieve a change of maladaptive into more acceptable behavior, and make the reintegration of offenders favorable into society; they also emphasize the importance of maintaining together the families of these offenders, especially the children that can be seen as vulnerable targets. The “Giving Offenders’ Kids incentive and Direction to Succeed”, is a program created by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice which main goal is to prevent children of incarcerated offenders follow the same steps of their parents. As it mentioned in GO KIDS home page, children from an incarcerated parent have more probability to become a criminal and to be

I chose an article from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. The title of the article is Predicting recidivism for released state prison offenders. Since I started my career in law enforcement, it seems like our detention facility has always been a revolving door. Our detention center routinely interacts and deals with the same offenders. Recidivism is an issue that affects our entire nation. This article was written by Gerald Stahler in February 2016.

I enjoyed your paper, it was one of the best in providing informative details about specific need and risks. Also, it was mentioned that probation officers should focus more on the offender that pose the most benefit from interventions and treatment. In fact, after reading your paper it is safe to infer that regardless of the risk factor, both should be highly supervised. In addition, a low-risk offender could face difficulties and challenges that require immediate attention because this offender may not be required to receive interventions and treatment due to their classification. While, On the other hand, a high-risk offender receiving both practices becomes less vulnerable of reoffending.

Non citizens marijuana non serious offenders are unfairly deported. The implications that a non citizen have to face is not only the payment of a fine, but also an injust deportation. According to “the Immigration and Nationality Act’s (INA’s) INA section 237(a)(2)(B)(i) makes a noncitizen who at any time after admission has been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation relating to a controlled substance deportable” (Cunning 531- 532). Any minor marijuana offense will make legal non citizens deportable with any chance to sort out their migratory status. Permanent residents who have committed a marijuana offense ...will often be deported and prevented from applying for several types of relief from deportation for which they would otherwise

We need to change the social learning and past abuse from these children. Society needs to teach these children that were victims that their behavior is wrong and they need to be shown the right way. This could include mentoring, big brothers clubs, health care, and adults willing to take the time to change the behavior patterns in children. With making these changes and including education and positive experiences the children will become less deviant, and become will make a difference in society. The goal is to change the behavior so that society doesn’t judge them as being deviant.

Many children become familiar with the Juvenile Justice System without knowledge of why they continue to commit crimes. Many of them suffered years of being abuses, which caused socialization changes that pushed them to withdraw or act out. This research is important because it shows the long terms effects child abuse has on children that become juvenile delinquents. Statistics show increasing numbers of children who are the victims of child abuse and neglect, although they decrease in delinquency may reflect a greater nation focus on the issue and the use of more effective programs to attack the problem. This research is important to me because the Criminal Justice System doesn’t address the causes of deviant behavior in juvenile delinquents to its full potential. They rather just focus on policing and tough sanctions. Hopefully with this paper and many others child abuse can be prevented along with the long-term effects of child abuse and better programs can be invented to treat child abuse victims. The Office of Justice Programs came up with a “Safe Kids Safe Streets” Program, which acknowledge the correlation between child abuse and juvenile delinquency and is aimed at breaking the cycle of early childhood victimization and later delinquency (Safe