OFFENDER REFORM

The current case of Chelsea King demonstrates how our current sex laws are not protecting our children.

The Sex Offender Registry is extremely flawed and places the lives of the public as well those it deems offenders at risk. The need for reform is now.

An opinion piece on the failure of both parties with the health care reform bill.

Child Protective Services took my child in October 2004 based on false allegations. I had to fight to get her back and finally did, but not before Child Protective Services had caused great harm to my child and my family.

It is time that our laws are changed reguarding sex offenders. Not all offenders are pedophiles and any one of us could end up on the registry if we get caught of something like peeing in public.

Sex offender laws are draconian, dangerous, and ineffective. The time for reform is now before more lives of good, decent people are destroyed callously.

The 1980's brought tremendous change for women in the working environment, and one of the biggest changes was the amendment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prohibit sexual harassment.

Rather than promoting abuse and violence reporting, many public health initiatives are now working to reduce the violence against women by identifying at-risk male populations and providing social education and learning

This article summarizes how the three different authors approach the subject of criminal degradation. Although all three examine degradation from different points of view, they all agree that it is a negative aspect of corrections and should be eliminated.

This article discusses the need in America for drastic penalty reform in the areas of rape in general, but child molestation in particular. Crimes of child molestation should be treated with the same severity as crimes of murder.

The parents of California teen Chelsea King, who authorities believe was raped and murdered by a registered sex offender, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Thursday evening to talk about their daughter's case and to press for tougher standards...

[Why it's high time for libertarians, progressives, and all Americans of good will to admit that the U.S. sex offender registration system is a failure. D.M. Jacques is an online activist on civil liberties issues. He resides in Northern Michigan.]

In what has been described as a "ground breaking" book, Michel Foucault discusses in Discipline and Punish the evolution of philosophical approaches to the treatment of criminals inside penal institutions.

According to lawmakers in Ohio, Wednesday they want to force sex offenders to use a special license plate on their cars. The fluorescent-green license plate will be used to make it easier to identify sex offenders.

In this paper I will discuss the history of parole and probation in the United States and how it came to exist in today's society.

America is an ever changing society. Our people, our culture, and even our legal system have continued to develop and advance since the very early days. Perhaps those changes are even more evident in the relationship between religion and law...

This is a college paper for a Research Methodology class on substance abuse issues within the criminal justice system.

The picture of Mark Foley with John Walsh and President Bush, at the signing of the bill that is supposed to protect America's youth from sex offenses says it all. Truth is stranger than fiction!

Research Paper covers criminal justice topic of presentence investigations. In depth analysis of what they are, how they're used, and the court cases related to them.

Deterrence theory is based on the concept that, if the consequence of committing a crime outweighs the benefit of the crime itself, the individual will be deterred from committing the crime.

The impact of drugs has hit Colorado hard with staggering statistics which place Colorado high on the list of adults incarcerated due to drug related charges. The city of Denver, accounted for 308 of 100,000 residents incarcerated for drugs

Our judicial system has become too tyrannical with their ability to take a person's freedom for a minor penetration of the law. People should be afforded the civilized justice that our country was founded on.

Nobody wants to believe that their president, senators and other elected officials might be traitors to The United States of America and its Constitution. But, by definition... That's exactly what they are.