...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 sexual acts, using a child in making pornography, and exposing an adult’s genitals to a child. When referring to a child, it is generally considered anyone under the age of 14. Children in their teens are less likely to be sexually abused, and the age of consent starts to come in to play in some situations. The crime rates for child molestation are hard to determine. The definition used to...
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...he was sexually assaulted by a prison officer. Zastowny then developed personality disorders such as low self-esteem, anti-social behaviour, and sexual anxiety. After being released the conditions remained and Zastowny found ease in the use of heroin; he continued to lead a life of crime. After spending 12 years in prison Zastowny had decided to sue the prison guard and the province. The defendants (prison guard and the province) admitted liability. The trial judge states that if the sexual assault did not occur Zastowny would not have become addicted to heroin, and he would not have committed additional crimes leading to his return to prison. The judge also states that because of the sexual assault Zastowny developed personality disorders and was not able to obtain and hold a job. Therefore, Zastowny argues that he should be compensated for income loss of the past 15 years, and for the future. The plaintiff, Dean Zastowny is in the position of suing the prison guard and the province (as the guard’s employer) for the intentional tort of sexual assault. Zastowny is requesting compensation for all of the income that he has lost during the past 15 years spent in jail. He is also requesting compensation for the future since his personality problems continue to exist and he will most likely have difficulty maintaining a job. The defendants, the prison guard and the province are being accused of sexual assault and have accepted liability. The prison guard committed the tort of negligence...
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...Criminal Law CRJS205 3/30/2012 Abstract When someone is attacked it is a very traumatic experience, a lot of the time the sexual assaults go unreported and the offenders are left to do this again. We need to educate women and even men when it comes to sexual assault; this is not a crime that just needs to be pushed aside. The offender can be punished for the crime and set in prison so they can think about what they did and how it affects the victim. We will look at how you can take the offender to civil court and even sue for damages and possible prison time. If you are over eighteen it is your choice whether you report a sexual assault or sexual abuse to the police. There is no time limit for when you can make a report it doesn't make a difference if it happened 2 days ago or 20 years ago. However, the sooner you report the better, because it may be harder for the police to get enough evidence to lay charges as time passes. The consensus among scholars and laypersons is that domestic violence and sexual assaults are hidden from society’s view because most incidents are not reported to the police ( Frieze & Browne, 1989; Herzberger, 1996; Pagelow, 1984). If you decide to report to the police, it is a good idea to talk to people you trust beforehand to get support. You can ask for a female police officer if you’re a woman if that will make you feel more comfortable. You can take a support...
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...Prison Violent Misconduct Sylwia Chamot April 20th, 2011 Dr. Hassett- Walker Senior Seminar CJ 4600, Section 02 Spring Semester 2011 Incarceration rates rose to unprecedented levels in the history of the U.S.’s imprisonment. Therefore, concern about social control of the incarcerated, that is, prisoners’ behavior, has increased. High inmate disciplinary infractions, especially violent infractions, are a threat to the safety of prison, of correctional staff, and of other inmates. Nevertheless, the issue of discipline in prison is important from an economic perspective, because an estimated average cost per infraction at a medium security prison is $970 (Jiang & Fisher-Giorlando, 2002). For these reasons, Jiang & Fisher- Giorlando conducted a research to help explain violent incidents, incidents against correctional staff and incidents against other inmates in prison. Identifying the risk factors of inmates to commit violent acts of misconduct is of great importance to prison administration. This type of research can assist in the classification process of inmates entering institutions as well as the ongoing classification adjustments of inmates already in custody. This study will identify and investigate factors for violent institutional misconduct. These factors include; however, are not limited to race...
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...All sexual predators should pay for the crimes they do. They all should be sentenced jail time and some sort of treatment. They should all be able to get evaluated by a professional to see if they can get some kind of help. These types of things are very serious and should be handled properly. I’m against all things that’s dealing with sexual assault no if, ands or buts about it. I’m against sexual assault of all kinds towards minors as well as adults. It’s no right in the situation and we should have our voices heard to enforce the punishment for sex offenders. Sexual assault is something that is not consented to the other person. It’s basically unwanted sexual activities that someone do to another human. Most of the sexual assault cases has...
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...protect members of the public and children to be specific who were often victims of sexual assault. This law has had its ups and down, for instance,...
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...The Women’s Prison Reformatory Movement Throughout history, women had been branded as domicile, obedient and appeared to be property of the men in their lives i.e. husbands or fathers. With the Criminal Justice System being fairly...
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...Megan’s Law and Sexual Offender Registration Although I found both questions quite interesting, I chose to reply about the “community rights” of both the offender and community to respond to. However, because this chapter is so enlightening (for personal retention of the information), I had to also address Megan’s (and others) law. Because to my surprise they have proven to be ineffective and don’t work! Laws aimed at people convicted of sex offenders may not protect children from sex crimes but do lead to harassment, ostracism and even violence against former offenders, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today (09/12/2007). Human Rights Watch urges the reform of state and federal registration and community notification laws, and the elimination of residency restrictions, because they violate basic rights of former offenders. The Adam Walsh Act, passed in 2006, will exacerbate the problems with state sex offender laws. It forces states to either dramatically increase the scope and duration of registration and community notification restrictions-including requiring states to register youths as young as 14-or lose some federal law enforcement grant money. Compliance with the Adam Walsh Act will preclude states from adopting more carefully calibrated and cost-effective registration and community notification policies. At least some states are debating whether the costs of complying with the law faroutweighs the benefits. Human Rights Watch urges reform of the Adam...
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...United States. Sources for this paper were found through peer-reviewed academic papers and articles, websites for organizations that advocate for victims of sexual assault and rape, and legislative bills from the state of Idaho. This paper also seeks to define the social justice issues, legal and political issues, and advocation for these victims on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of society. Keywords: rape, rape victims, and advocating Social Justice for Rape Survivors, an “At Risk Population” and Ways of Advocating for Them Definition of the “at risk population”: The definition of rape and survivors of rape varies around the world and especially differs from state to state within the United States of America. In the advocacy community, victims of sexual assault are generally referred to as survivors because they have survived a horrible event. (Cazier, 2013) For the purpose of this paper and in keeping with that belief, I will also refer to these individuals as survivors. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) the general definition of rape in the United States is, “forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration. Penetration may be by a body part or object.” In order for the term rape is apply to all persons, male or female, RAINN defines it as, “forced sexual intercourse including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration. Penetration may be by a body part or object.” In the state of Idaho, the state government defines...
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...Mitigating Prison Violence Cynthia Evans CJ522: Comparative Correctional Systems June 17, 2014 Mitigating Prison Violence Violence in prison systems remains to be a persistent problem among enforcers and inmates alike. Not only does it compromise inmate safety and institutional security, it distorts the purpose of prison systems as penitentiary systems meant to discourage criminal behavior. Adding to this complication, the problem is present in nearly all prison systems worldwide, with some systems more prone to it than others. In America, homicide inside jails and state prisons has remained relatively low in recent years at 3 per 100,000 on average (Mumola, 2005). The same cannot be said for Brazilian prisons, however; in 2013 alone, around 60 inmates were killed in Brazilian prisons, and three others died through decapitation and heavy mutilation at the beginning of the year (Cawley, 2014). Violence in prison systems is by no means limited to physical violence or individual assaults. In the first place, “violence in prison” is a broad category, which involves a range of situations and actions from certain parties, with violence as their common factor. It may involve riots, mutinies, and individual assaults. It may also, in fact, be taken to mean any form of violence—usually physical and/or sexual—done by inmates to fellow inmates, or prison staff to inmates. For example, while physical violence is an all-time low in American prisons, sexual violence is on the rise there...
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...Will Prison Rape Ever End? By: CMRJ205 Rape and Sexual Assault Prison rape has been an issue that inmates have been dealing with for some time now. The guards do not take them serious when they claim that they’ve been raped, they put in for transfers and request to be placed in isolation but they are denied time after time. Some inmates even go as far as committing suicide just to avoid being raped repeatedly by other inmates and, sometimes, guards. There has to be something that can be done to help avoid situations like these. Although, it may take some time, money, and people that actually care and listen to the inmates, prison rape can decrease. The first thing that needs to be addressed is defining rape in a prison. Anyone can claim to be raped but a clear definition needs to be set in to deter inmates from claiming something just to be separated from others or to get others in trouble. However, there are a lot of inmates that deal with the rape to protect themselves. The person raping them will threaten them with harming them or even killing them if they say anything. Women’s prisons are easy access for guards to rape female inmates. They can threaten them with putting them in the hole for weeks or beating them in the middle of the night while no one is around if they rat them out. If there were more trusted guards maybe female prisons would have less victims being raped while incarcerated. Better prison employees would help cut down the amount...
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...April 24, 2015 Government 122 Highley Teens and the Prison System Teenagers all over the world are being sent to prison the youngest age of fourteen years old. Imagine being raped at the age fourteen and there is nothing you can do about it. “Children are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted in adult prisons than in juvenile facilities and face increased risk of suicide.” Throughout this paper the dangers present for a teenager in prison, why they should be in a rehabilitation center, and talking about the expenses if every teenager were to go to prison will be explored and detailed. Although juveniles commit similar or in the some cases the same crimes as adults they should not be incarcerated in the same facilities as adults. In fact depending on the crime teens should have multiple options for rehabilitation. Teenagers do stupid things growing up. In many cases prison is seen as the first and most convenient option. Rehabilitation should be an option because at adolescence the brain is not fully developed. Rehabilitation can help these teenagers with the choices they make. If teenagers want to keep making the same mistakes then rehabilitation is not going to change the choices they make and maybe they should go to prison and realize rehabilitation was better and trying to help them. Rehabilitation is encouraging in making adolescents go to school and better their education and life choices. “If the rehabilitation...
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...individual a sex offender? By definition, a sex offender is anyone who commits a sex crime. A sex crime is when someone knowingly forces another person to engage in a sexual act against his/her will. In many cases, violence, or force is used. Should members of a community know the whereabouts of any nearby, convicted, sex offenders? Once a sex offender is release from prison and into society, he tends to tries to live as normal of a life as possible. Should all who are charged with committing a sex crime be registered? If someone is convicted of soliciting a prostitute, should he be put onto the same list as someone who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault? There are at least fifty different ways for an individual to be labeled as a sex offender (New York Sex Offender Registry Registerable Offenses). Even though all are registered as “sex offenders,” once released from prison, there are different ways one can be treated. Most people do not agree with having different levels because they believe that all convicted sex offenders should be treated the same. Society may not even consider some “sex crimes” as a reason for one to go to jail and be registered as a “sex offender.” In New Jersey, Megan’s Law requires convicted sex offenders to register with local law enforcement upon their conviction and/or release from prison. The law was named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka who resided in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. In July of 1994, an across-the-street neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas...
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...17,700,000 women and men have reported a sexual abuse since 1998, the #metoo movement was created in 2006 by Tarana Burke to bring light to sexual assault after a young girl who had been a victim of sexual abuse told Burke her story, burkes response; me too. In October of 2017 actress Alyssa Milano sent out a tweet asking her followers to comment “me too” if they have ever been a victim of sexual abuse, with over 12 million posts in the first 24 hours receiving responses from actors and actresses such as Sophia Bush, Viola Davis, Ellen DeGeneres and Terry Crews. The #metoo movement brought light to the hush-hush cases of sexual abuse and harassment. Larry Nassar the United States Women's gymnastics medical advisor has been accused of sexual assault on girls as young as age six. Nassar is currently charged with receiving child pornography, in possession of child pornography, and tampering with evidence, he is currently on trial for cases of sexual assault facing up to 40-175 years in prison. In 2016 McKayla Maroney filed a lawsuit against Nassar, for sexual abuse that spanned 7 years resulting in Maroney's retirement, USA gymnastics covered up the lawsuit with a non-disclosure agreement, and a 1.25 million dollar settlement.Maroney was one of the 160 gymnasts who gave a victim impact statements against Nassar. Maroney led the...
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...Criminal law Name: Institution: An assault is the act of unlawfully attacking people verbally by abusing or threatening them or forcing them to do things against their will. Assault does not involve contact. Examples of assaults are, threatening to kill or take by word of mouth, through a text or mail or pointing a gun, a knife or any other dangerous object to someone to show the strength of the message. It is sometimes difficult to pursue a case against someone who has abused another verbally, since the terms could meant for protective purposes. Sexual assault involves contact. This is when a person is forced, against her will, to have sex with another person. It is only fair to get a refraining order for a person who has committed assault so that when the persons violate it by hurting the people he threatened, charges of assault and battery are on him (Husak, 2007). Battery, on the other hand, involves contact. This is the unlawful torturing of a person by physically abusing them. The injury must be evident for it to be battery. For example, presence of a burn, a cut or a bullet wound that shows that the battery took place. Unintentional damage to someone is not battery. However, there are instances where battery is justified. If you hurt someone while defending yourself, you will only need enough evidence and proof for the rulings to favor you. In defending...
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