The Domestic Violence And Sex Crimes Units Of The Prosecutor's Office

In the most recent data available from 2015, it was disclosed that nearly 92,000 Canadians had report to the police an incident related to domestic violence; of this number, 80% of them were women (Burczycka, 2017). It is then no surprise that intimate partnership violence has been found to be one of the major causes of violence against women in Canada (Ministry of the Status of Women, 2015). Many agencies focus on supporting directly the female victims and providing them with secured shelters and safe spaces to rebuild themselves after leaving their abusive relationship (Shelter Safe, 2017). However, a need to address domestic violence from the roots arose in Ontario1982, when the community identified a gap in the offer of programs

Working at the Shiawassee Prosecutors Office has its advantages. One advantage is that it’s a small county where the prosecutors, defense attorneys, Judges, and staff can easily remember the names of previous defendants, as well as, each other. It has given me the opportunity to meet and work with different parts of the criminal justice system, such as, the State Police, probation, and drug court administrators.

To understand how communication can improve within a traditional bureaucratic criminal justice system, one must understand the structure and how communication is dispersed within the respective criminal justice agencies. It is also important to realize that each agency or criminal justice organization has policy and procedures governing how communication is transmitted. (Stojkovic, Stan, Kalinch, David, & Klofas, 2012) Within law enforcement agencies information is passed either up or down the chain of command. Meaning

Out of the shadows and into the limelight, the once hidden crime of domestic violence has recently emerged within the Australian community as a widespread criminal issue. This abuse of power occurs in a relationship when one partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate and control the other. Inflicting physical harm upon another human being is undoubtedly a breach of the criminal law, yet the Australian legal system takes little measures to protect the wider community from this type of violence. According to Family Lawyer Richard Ingleby, domestic violence has often been condoned by the legal system due to the fact that assaults occur in the ‘private’ realm of the home where legal measures are regarded as inappropriate, and interventionist. However, by overlooking domestic violence as a criminal offence, does the Australian legal system fail to adequately protect the family unit from this form of violence? Recent studies from the Australian Bureau of Statics have revealed that 23% of women who have ever been married or engaged in a de facto relationship have experienced violence by a partner at some time during the relationship. Due to the secrecy that once surrounded this kind of abuse, victims often feel unable to speak out and seek help, therefore even large surveys cannot provide accurate estimates of the extend of domestic violence within the Australia community (Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre, 1998). Despite the high incidence rate of

Following my internship, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and accepted a position with the Department of Child Services (DCS) as a case manager; the same one I had observed in the forensic interview room years ago. Intervening in the lives of families as a DCS case manager is extremely fast-paced, stressful, contentious and heartbreaking. Entering a stranger’s home and making a decision that will impact their lives for years to come forces one

On March 14, 2016, I, Deputy John Arnold, was dispatched to Mounds Police Department for a domestic violence report that occurred in Creek County.

The department has more of a divisional structure. For example, Marion County has two main divisions within the department known as the Adult and Juvenile Divisions. Within those divisions there are many sub units that handle different specialized caseloads such as the Field Team unit, Mental Health, Sex Offender, Pre-Sentence Investigation Writers, Intake (Youth and Adults), Court Team, and Regular Caseload Officers. These different units have supervisors that manage each personnel. Each of these units may receive cases from any of all 24 criminal court divisions. This sometimes leads to personnel having high numbers on their caseloads. As a Probation Officer in the Regular Caseload unit, I supervise over 130 probationers. These high numbers play a huge role in employee burn-outs and turnovers. Different Judges in the each courtroom require different conditions from the offender and each Probation Officer is required to maintain enforcing those

Critically analyse what you consider to be the most significant changes in the criminal justice system relating to one particular area.

Within the field of human services there are so many details that cannot be overlooked, there are many variables that should not be ignored. There are also expectations from stakeholders that most definitely must be entertained by all participants and staff that are involved with the program. Typically all human service programs depend on a source or sources of funding to provide services to countless individuals within a community. So many variables are present and necessary to ensure that the program will be able to function correctly and efficiently. The stakeholders are a major contributor as well as a part on how the program will proceed. Stakeholders are not just groups; they can be a person, staff member, group, community or an organization that has impact on the operations of an agency or a human resources program. During an evaluation process they can be involved to examine the data collected. Then this can in turn assist the stakeholder to come up with ideas, this would then influence board members as to how the agency or the program should change to ensure that it will reach its objectives and goals as well as to follow its mission. Stakeholders can have a negative or positive impact on the program, in which it can affect economics, funding and accounting as well as other business related decisions such as staff, community, volunteers, administration, and also the target population related decisions. Primarily the administration department will oversee the

When it comes to describing domestic violence all that comes to mind is a woman or man being physically abused or being mistreated and humiliated by another person. You may think that since domestic violence is a serious concern the criminal justice system has taken actions to stop or prevent it. In reality the system is failing these women and some are getting seriously hurt or even killed. Domestic violence was not that popular before the Tracy Thurman case. Ever since the case was shown to the public domestic violence awareness increased. It captured the attention of the public through the media.

Back in May of 2014, a rape case took place in Salisbury, Maryland, which is located in Wicomico County. The assault took place at Parkside High School on Beaglin Park Drive. Eighteen year old Jocori Marece Scarborough was found guilty of second degree rape, second degree assault, false imprisonment, and other charges. As the story is told by the victim, a fifteen year old girl named Heather Lynette Sinclair, she testifies in front of the jury that she had told Scarborough that she would not have sex with him, but would walk with him to class. The defense asked Sinclair a series of questions, in which she admitted having a previous relationship with Scarborough before the assault took place, and that the two had kissed before. (Bill, n d)

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is a federal agency that is home based in Washington D.C., but has fifty-three field offices located in the larger, major cities across the United States, and around three-hundred-sixty smaller agencies in the more residential areas of the country. The FBI also has over sixty locations across the globe in the United States embassies called legal attachés. This bureau focuses on so many different areas, but they are threat-focused national security organization with deals with both law enforcement and intelligent responsibilities. With nearly thirty-five thousand people employed, the FBI has duties from preventing terrorist attacks to supporting state, local, and federal partners

For example, in a residential area, everybody more often than not knows each other's business. In perspective of this, if a savage man hears gossipy tidbits coursing around the group that he is mishandling his significant other, the lady could be set in threat for telling somebody. The man could return home from work and take out his outrage on his better half, in this way adding to the endless cycle of family brutality. Classification issues can likewise bring about issues with law implementation officers. On the off chance that the officer has experienced childhood in the group, he or she will regularly have an own association with the casualty or abuse. Therefore, appraisals of the harsh circumstance could come to be weighted all the more vigorously on one's close to home connection with the culprit, and necessary leadership could be traded

This paper will describe my understanding of the text and of the lectures provided in the class. Unlike most classes, where I understood only my view of the text, this class was geared so each student would understand each other’s view. 3 An organization is a collective that has some boundary and internal structure that engages in activities related to some complex set of goals. Members of organizations attempt to meet their psychological, ego and emotional needs within the organization. Criminal justice organizations are particularly unique compared to other public or private sector organizations because of the governmental granted authority. Management within these organizations can be defined as the process by

The crime of domestic violence is as ancient as marriage and is a demonstration of an abusive pattern of behavior perpetrator by one domestic partner to another. The objective of the offending party is to gain and sustain over and control over the other person physically, sexually, emotionally and economically. Domestic violence is expressed in a manner that terrorizes, humiliates, hurts or frightens another person.