...Abstract This essay looks into Florida laws that prohibit predatory conduct. The state of Florida has sexual offenses codified into law and felony under the Sexual Predator Act. Some offenses under the Florida Sexual Predator Act may attract the death sentence, life in prison or fines. However, a judge may exercise discretion based on circumstances of a case when sentencing a sexual offender. However, some provisions of the Florida Sexual Predator Act are harsher than necessary. As discussed in this essay, very harsh sexual predator laws inhibit ability of sexual predators to reintegrate in the society. Thus, considerate sexual predator laws are highly encouraged. Sexual Predator Prosecution in Florida The state of Florida has statutes that define predatory conduct. Thus, the Florida Sexual Predators Act defines offenses and legal circumstances that can qualify an offender as a sexual predator. However, not all sexual offenses are designated as predatory under Florida law. What Types of Crimes are codified into Law, Misdemeanor or Felony? The criminal justice process must rely on elaborate laws that define unlawful conduct (Wright, 2013, p.4). Thus, the Florida Sexual Predators Act codifies several sexual offenses into law and felony. There are three main ways to determine if a sex offender is a predator. Generally, Florida law designates any repeat sexual offender as a predator. As per “one is enough” sexual predator offenses, a person who commits a qualifying sexual...
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...Abbott Administrator Challenges The job requirements of a criminal justice administer in the United States can be extremely demanding. The three foremost areas of criminal justice include the police, courts, and corrections. As an administrator overseeing the police department would be indeed the hardest of the three. Within a police department the chief of police would be the top administrator and in command of administrating the departments policies to officers, detectives, and supporting staff. This paper will discuss the roles of a chief of police and the negative and positive aspects he or she may endure. As an administrator of a police department, the requirements are more than just ensuring the officers follow the policies of that department. It requires the individual to be knowledgeable of federal and state laws, budgets, and public relations and must be able to communicate in a competent fashion in a written and oral manner and be a critical thinker. Other challenges a chief of police can face are ensuring the officers are well trained and have the proper equipment to do his or her job while out on patrol. A chief of police must be an ethical individual and an unbiased individual. Not fulfilling these requirements could result in a crisis situation within the department. The police department is not the only place a crisis can occur when the chief of police is not fulfilling his or her job as described in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The public tends to demand...
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...Michigan probation statute. Upon medical studies, California State was in 1996 prompted to enact legislations that provided chemical castration as a punishment against certain sex offenders. It was the first state to enact the harsh legislation. Six months after California’s enactment of the law, Florida State followed suit by enacting its version of chemical castration (Spalding, 1998). The Florida State’s 1997 Chemical Castration Statute The Florida statute allows a trial judge to sentence a sexual battery convict to receive MPA. In the case where a defendant is a sexual battery convict and has been previously convicted of sexual battery, the court trying the convict is required to impose an MPA administration as a sentence. However, one is only subjected to the MPA administration on grounds of an approval by a medical expert appointed by the court that the defendant is appropriately a candidate for weekly injections of the drug. The duration of treatment must be specified in the sentence and one should not be subjected to the injections if the medical expert’s report does not approve of it (Spalding, 1998). The services necessary in the administration of the MPA were offered by the Florida Dapartment of Corrections (DOC). Once the administration begins, it is considered a violation of probation and also a separate commission of a second degree felony, in the case where a defendant fails to continue with the injections (Spalding, 1998). Defendants, however, have an option to choose...
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...is mentally incapable as he was probably just trying to save himself from being charged with a long sentence. It is very clear that Mr. Dents had committed the murder especially since many of her items were found at his home along with many different drugs. Even though there was no sign of forced entry there is still enough evidence to place him at the scene of the crime with the diary with him talking about things to buy and also having her belongings in his possession at his house as well. Here in Florida Mr. Dents would have been charged with First degree murder- due to the act being premeditated- the prosecution will have to show Mr. Dent’s specific intent to kill by stabbing the victim 13 times. The journal that Mr. Dent had in his home along with the photos of the victim will show, how he stalked her as well. This charge is a capital offense in Florida and the State may choose to seek the death penalty. For punching the officer Mr. Dent would be charged with Battery on a law enforcement...
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...Corruption of Florida Police Officers Name Learning Institution CORRUPTION OF FORIDA POLICE OFFICERS Police officers are law enforcement officers who are expected to keep law and order in the society by controlling crimes, investigating crimes, making arrests, patrolling streets and controlling traffics (MacVean & Neyroud, 2012). They are expected to show high level of good ethical conduct such as honesty, integrity, courage, responsibility and good character (MacVean & Neyroud, 2012). This has not been the case in the country. Controversial behaviors have widely been reported among the police officers who are expected to enforce the low and order. The police have been accused of violating the moral ethical values by engaging in corruption (MacVean & Neyroud, 2012). Therefore this paper intends to discuss the ethical issues in regards to police officers in Opa-Locka and Miami Florida. Ethics and Corruption Ethical issues do crop up in our day to day life. In the law enforcement departments, a clear understanding of the ethics will be of greater importance since the officers are highly expected to practice good moral values in the society. Therefore, police administration and the Attorney General should ensure that officers adhere to the police code of conduct so as not to develop mistrust in the eyes of the public (MacVean & Neyroud, 2012). However, ethics is defined as the study of the specific moral conducts an individual practices while relating...
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...not tell anyone what they did. NCAA players should not get protection when they commit a crime because athletes should not receive special treatment, laws are for all people, and it is a disservice when they are not punished for their crimes. Students should not get special treatment just because they are athletes. Florida running back Chris Rainey was charged once out of the 5 crimes he committed as seen in Paula Lavigne article. Florida had the highest number of athletes named...
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...Every day there is a new crime committed. We tend to believe there is a guilty person and an innocent person. Due to modern technology, we now know the direct truth and can determine who is at fault. In Tallahassee, Florida, a woman being arrested for driving under the influence leads into a traumatic and physical arrest. The article also includes the full arrest caught on the dashboard camera. In this article, the author shows the lack of competency and structure displayed by the Tallahassee Police Department which leaves this investigation open for debate. In the early morning of August 10, 2013, in Tallahassee, Florida, police had arrived at an alcohol-related accident. The suspect involved is a 44-year old female by the name of Christina West. According to the police report, Christina West had crashed her vehicle into a house on Kilkenny Drive. Upon arrival, officers initially performed a field-sobriety test and determined she was intoxicated. West was initially placed under arrest with a driving under the influence (DUI) charge. Video surveillance, from one of the police officer’s dashboard camera, shows the entire arrest, along with the sobriety test performed at the scene, from start to finish. After viewing the footage captured by the dashboard camera, I found the footage to be very disturbing. What started as a routine DUI conviction led to become a violent incident by the Tallahassee Police Department. West performed her sobriety test, as the officer’s...
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...the same time, Joe would receive compensatory and punitive damages for Sam shooting Joe. Sam did unnecessary damage to Joe by shooting him. Sam committed assault even though he did not actually hit Joe. Sam created a reasonable fear of immediate harmful when his fists were raised in the air. In Sam’s defense, he could tell the court that he did not have Mens Rea to actually hit Joe sense he actually hit his dog instead. When Sam hit Joe’s dog it made Joe become very emotionally distressed, which is the tort of infliction of emotional distress. Joe committed assault and battery when he broke Sam’s nose. Since Sam hit his dog, he could say that he was protecting his family. There are probably a few juries that allow protecting your pet a family member also, since Joe was emotional distressed. There could be money damages taken out for that too. I believe this is a good way of self defense to the battery. According to CNN’s law table from 2012, you are justified in using deadly force, with no duty to retreat, when you reasonably believe that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another or...
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...Running Head: Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Juvenile Crime Kalah Jiggetts Criminal Justice Abstract This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge-assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zip codes—allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a lower cost to the government per comparable individual released. Cost- benefit analysis implies that the short-run savings offered by for-profit over nonprofit management are negated in the long run due to increased recidivism rates, even if one measures the benefits of reducing criminal activity as only the avoided costs of additional confinement. Since its beginnings in the mid-1980s, prison privatization in the United States has provoked several rounds of congressional hearings and hundreds of articles...
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...Technology seems to develop at the speed of time. There is always something new and exciting on the horizon that someone is talking about. The last place that you would think you would have a negative experience with technology is on vacation; trying to enjoy the sun atmosphere of a place other than home. This is exactly what happened to my Uncle Bob; he was stopped for speeding in Florida. He answered the Law Enforcement Officers’ questions calmly and was then placed into the back of his cruiser. The process by which the Officer obtained the information is very routine; personal, one-on-one conversation. Many people do not realize it but when they are talking to an officer of the law, that person is constantly being evaluated; verbal and non-verbal. The officer is always taking in information no matter now simple is may seem. While Uncle Bob was being questioned he provided the following: his name, birth date, height, and weight, and resident state. As this is the basic form of information gathering the officer then would have entered the information gathered into their regional type database. Once the officer relayed the specific data to the regional office or agency the bigger wheels started to turn. This would have been completed either via radio and the distant end using a searchable database to input Uncle Bob’s information or the officer might have had the means to affect this himself. Newer police cruisers have computers connected to the main regional office so the...
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...Fernandez, this story used to be a family joke. I had fallen asleep and my parents were going to take that opportunity to have a quick cocktail at the bar. Apparently I had woken up and began to cry uncontrollably. My sister did her best to try and get me to stop, but how do you stop a cry baby from crying? My sister remembers stepping out to the balcony because of her frustration and looking down; she says that in her head she was telling herself that it was not a long a fall and that I was so chunky that I would bounce. Thank goodness my parents came back to the room before she could entertain her thoughts! I first learned about Christian Fernandez about nine months ago. I was browsing through my AOL news when I saw the headline “Florida Boy to Be Charged as an Adult”. It immediately caught my attention. I began to read the story of a 12 year old boy, Fernandez who was left taking care of his 5 year old brother and his two year old brother. Fernandez pushed his two- year- old brother into a book shelf twice, knocking the toddler unconscious. When reading Fernandez’s story it seemed to have it home because he was a child taking care of another child just as my sister was a child taking care of me, another child. I thought to myself what would have happened if my parents would have walked in a minute later. My sister and I adores each other, she would have never intentionally harm me. But she was too young to know better that people do...
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...Technologies and products. The market, producing drug paraphernalia is cashing in on children’s addiction. Marijuana is being marketed in candy form, bright intriguing packaging, used to attract youth. Marijuana is easier than ever to use with all the new gadgets coming out to make smoking undetectable, efficient, and easy. There is no more need to develop a bong out of a water bottle, now youth can buy items such as the third iteration of Pax Labs’ eponymous handheld vaporizer which is subtler than ever before. Or one can purchase a Puffco Peak, which is a battery-powered gizmo with four different heat settings, which allows smoking to go undetected. For older parents with children using marijuana, they may not even know what to look for to know that their child is using. Macro Perhaps the government perhaps sees this all as part of the consumer society. Using taxation, regulation, and prohibition to gain. “Most critics have argued that...
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...indicated in Crime and Criminals, explains that crimes typically occur intraracially, meaning between races and the characteristics of victims tend to male; young (between the ages of twelve and twenty-four); and more likely to be African American than white; more likely to be Hispanic than non-Hispanic (Crime and Criminals, 44). Researchers Kathleen Fox, Mat Nobles, and Alex Piquero, use...
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...Joycene Harrell CRM-430 Term Paper Week 5 Draft Summary for Prison Rehabilitation and Counseling Programs I chose to focus this term paper on the various programs offered to prisoners as part of their rehabilitation for introduction back into society. In today’s world there are many who believe that every one can be rehabilitated. The question should be asked; “does rehabilitation really work for everyone?” I will provide statistics on the success and failure rate, as well as which programs are most beneficial to prisoners. Whether rehabilitation and counseling works or not, something has to be done to assist prisoners in order for them to lead a normal life upon their release. I will discuss some of the many programs offered by various states ranging from “Pets in Prison” to obtaining college degrees. I will explain the various types of counseling offered to sex offenders, pedophiles and murderers. Those are a few topics I feel should have special interest in the counseling/rehabilitation area. I am sure most would agree that prisoners should receive some type of counseling and rehabilitation, but where do you draw the line on the rehabilitation services offered? Should the money from taxpayers be used to fund certain types of programs, how does the prison system decide who gets to participate in which programs, and how can counselors and judicial boards ensure there will be no regression? Those are just a couple of questions that will be answered...
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...Wayland Baptist University Lubbock Campus Child Molestation: Does the punishment fit the crime? Justice Administration 3300 Criminal Law Professor Shupe By Lance Sumrall October 18, 2010 Imagine a child, a little girl about the age of 10; she has just walked in the door from a fun day at school. She is surprised to find that mom is not home, only her new step-father. She goes to her room to put away her book bag and take off her shoes. She turns around to see her new dad standing in the doorway with a strange look in his eye. In the moments to come, the innocence of a precious child will be destroyed forever. Studies show that two out of ten girls and one out of ten boys will be sexually abused before their fourteenth birthday, and children that are abused are much more likely to be abused by a family member or close friend not a stranger off the street. While child molestation is a common phrase used by the media and public when discussing sexual abuse of children, the actual crime is called child sexual assault. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect defines child sexual assault as “contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used for sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or another person when the perpetrator or another person is in a position of power or control over the victim.” These “contacts or interactions” include inappropriate physical contact, forcing a child to view pornography or people performing...
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