America's Sex Offense statutes and cases are some of the most controversial sections of modern law, both for the extreme sensitivity of their subject matter as well as the scope and application of those laws. This thesis is an analysis and overview of both the objective and subjective issues posed by the current state of those very laws: the subjective portion explored the development of current laws and the diverse attendant legal issues such as over-broadness and excessive or misdirected effect as compared to the Legislative and public intent which directly led to the development of these laws. Additionally a more objective study of their efficacy was conducted through the use of data regarding offense rates by locality. This objective data was procured from both the United States Census and Bureau of Justice statistics, which contained national averages such as the overall violent crime rate, and from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Statistics and was supplemented with additional data from other academic sources. It is both the subjective conclusion and the interpretation of objective data that while the rate of sex offenses has lowered in recent decades this effect is a part of the overall trend of reduction in all violent offenses, and that the extreme stance of modern sex offense laws have arguably resulted in the net-negative of creating a class of individuals ostracized from all but other sex offenders who are virtually incapable of supporting themselves or at times of even finding legal habitation post-release. With little to no chance of a productive life, there is the strong possibility of recidivism and little incentive to avoid re-offending.

The current research study examines the relationship between race, ethnicity, and offense type on three stages of juvenile court outcomes (i.e., petition, adjudication, and disposition). In the past, research has focused on the prevalence of disproportionate minority contact, especially when it comes to disparities found in sanctioning outcomes of Black and White juveniles. However, prior research included Hispanic youth, despite being one of the largest growing ethnicity groups in the United States. The current study also examines whether juveniles charged with drug offenses are treated more severely when compared to juveniles charged with a person, property, and other offenses, to investigate the possible continuance of the War on Drugs and the effect it may have on the juvenile justice system. Through various logistic regression models based on data from a Northeastern state from the years 2004-2014, the study confirmed disparities among the court outcomes for White, Black, and Hispanic juveniles. Differences were also found when looking at juveniles charged with drug offenses versus those charged with a person, property, and other offenses. Last, the race and ethnicity of the juvenile charged with a drug offense also influenced juvenile court outcomes. Further research into the impact of race, ethnicity, and offense type on court processing is necessary to shape policy and programs to better ensure fair and equal treatment in the juvenile justice system.

Inappropriate behavior among students has long been a point of great concern and contention for public schools in the United States. Our national school discipline rates have reached an all-time high. As suspension and expulsion rates continue to grow at schools across the country, so do racial disparities. Over the past 4 decades, the K, "12 suspension rates have doubled for White students but tripled for Black students. In Arlington County Public Schools (ACPS), inappropriate student behavior that may result in suspension is classified as either "zero-tolerance" (for which the student must be suspended) or "nonzero-tolerance" (for which the school administrator can choose between suspension and other forms of discipline). Suspension is assumed to be one of the more severe forms of discipline. This study analyzes the impact that student ethnicity had on suspensions in ACPS during school years 2006 to 2011. The results indicate that Hispanic and Black students are suspended more than White and Asian students. However, when the administrator has the option to suspend, results suggest that Blacks and Whites are given the benefit of the doubt but Hispanics are not. Possible causes of the relationship between ethnicity and inappropriate behavior are provided. Reasoning for school administrators' possible leniency with Blacks and their possible lack of leniency with Hispanics is also provided. Areas of future study are recommended. / Ed. D.

The aim of this work was to bring the issue of mandatory confidentiality of health workers and the exceptions to this concept in the context of criminal law. In the first part of the thesis is generally defined by the Institute of mandatory confidentiality in health care, sources of legal regulation of this institute and its development in the Czech legal order. The work also deals with medical records and privacy of sensitive data in connection with the obligation of confidentiality of medical professionals. The next section is defined by breaking the confidentiality required the consent of the patient and also cases where the patient's consent to obtain information about his state of health is not required. The work also deals with criminal liability for breach of confidentiality and lists the offenses that can be committed in violation of this obligation. In the conclusion the work presents a brief comparison of the regulation of the Slovak Republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The thesis presents the educational and psychological profiling of the juvenile delinquent. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of the juvenile delinquency, its specifics and developmental trends in this field. Next, it deals with the description of the juvenile's profiling from the perspective of the developmental psychology and then with the explanation where juvenile delinquency stems from. The empirical part deals with the results of the qualitative research collected in the center of the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic. The research is realized by the combination of three methods - the content analysis of documents, the semi structured interview and Tarter questionnaire in order to get anamnestic data about chosen clients of the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic and to find out the most hazardous areas of their lifes.

La justice et le pardon sont comme deux pôles d'une dialectique qui les unit au point de les rendre inséparables. Le pardon est un don gratuit relèvant d'une démarche personnelle tandis que la justice est un droit naturel ou légal inhérent à toute personne humaine. En effet, le pardon ne s'oppose pas à la justice. Il s'y superpose sans interférer. Le travail de l'un est complété par l'apport de l'autre. À cet égard, il ne peut y avoir de guérison avec le pardon sans la justice. De même, il ne peut y avoir de réconciliation avec la justice sans le pardon. Ainsi, le pardon est le fruit de la justice. Car dans l'acte du pardon, c'est l'amour au-delà de la faute qui brise la douleur et la haine. Le pardon grandit celui qui l'offre et contribue au bonheur d'autrui. Le passé est vaincu et transcendé. La justice est un rempart contre tout ce qui se dresse contre l'homme et supprime les discordes et les inégalités. De ce point de vue, justice et pardon qui sont deux vertus en interaction, apportent l'épanouissement moral et spirituel à l'homme. Ils sont au service de la charité. / Justice and forgiveness are like two poles of a dialectic that unites them to the point of making them inseparable. Forgiveness is a free gift that comes from a personal approach while justice is a natural or legal right that every human being is entitled. Indeed, forgiveness is not incompatible with justice. It coexists with justice without interfering. The work of one is supplemented by the contribution of the other. In this regard, there cannot be closure with forgiveness without justice. Likewise, there can be no reconciliation with justice without forgiveness. Thus, forgiveness is the fruit of justice. In fact, forgiveness is an act of love beyond fault that breaks pain and hatred. Forgiveness grows whoever offers it and contributes to the happiness of others. The past is vanquished and transcended. Justice is a safeguard that removes discord and inequality. From this point of view, justice and forgiveness are two interacting virtues that bring moral and spiritual fulfillment to human being. They are at the service of charity.

The current research utilizes a multi-level analysis of historical, clinical, situational and neighbourhood factors to predict violence severity among persons with major mental illness. In addition, it draws on the typologies of offenders proposed by Moffitt (1993) and Hodgins and Janson (2002) to explore whether different predictors of violence severity exist for early-start, persistent offenders and late-start offenders. Finally, it compares early-start and late-start offenders with major mental illness to determine if differences exist in their criminal history, clinical presentation, motive for violence, crime-scene behaviours and neighbourhood backgrounds. A retrospective chart review of a mental health court support program in Toronto, Canada is utilized to explore the correlates of violence severity. Clinical charts and supplemental arrest records are content analyzed to extract data on arrestee/offender characteristics and on crime scene behaviours and tract-level data from the 2001 Canada Census is used to identify structural features of the neighbourhood environment of arrestees/offenders at the time of their arrest. Violence severity is measured using the Cormier-Lang System of Quantifying Criminal History (Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Cormier, 1998). In total 1806 charts were reviewed and 245 subjects were subsequently included within the analyses. Using a variety of analytic techniques, the following results were obtained: 1) offense characteristics such as victim gender, victim-offender relationship, instrumental motive, and use of a weapon were the most robust predictors of violence severity while clinical factors such as diagnosis and comorbid clinical conditions were marginally significant predictors and historical factors such as previous violence and early-start offending were not significant predictors of violence severity; 2) context-specific measures accounted for more of the explained variation in violence severity than did individual-specific measures; 3) early-start and late-start offenders did differ with respect to history of violence, presence of a comorbid clinical condition such as a personality disorder or substance abuse and current life circumstances. Implications for theory refinement, clinical practice and program development are discussed and future avenues of research are considered.

The current research utilizes a multi-level analysis of historical, clinical, situational and neighbourhood factors to predict violence severity among persons with major mental illness. In addition, it draws on the typologies of offenders proposed by Moffitt (1993) and Hodgins and Janson (2002) to explore whether different predictors of violence severity exist for early-start, persistent offenders and late-start offenders. Finally, it compares early-start and late-start offenders with major mental illness to determine if differences exist in their criminal history, clinical presentation, motive for violence, crime-scene behaviours and neighbourhood backgrounds. A retrospective chart review of a mental health court support program in Toronto, Canada is utilized to explore the correlates of violence severity. Clinical charts and supplemental arrest records are content analyzed to extract data on arrestee/offender characteristics and on crime scene behaviours and tract-level data from the 2001 Canada Census is used to identify structural features of the neighbourhood environment of arrestees/offenders at the time of their arrest. Violence severity is measured using the Cormier-Lang System of Quantifying Criminal History (Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Cormier, 1998). In total 1806 charts were reviewed and 245 subjects were subsequently included within the analyses. Using a variety of analytic techniques, the following results were obtained: 1) offense characteristics such as victim gender, victim-offender relationship, instrumental motive, and use of a weapon were the most robust predictors of violence severity while clinical factors such as diagnosis and comorbid clinical conditions were marginally significant predictors and historical factors such as previous violence and early-start offending were not significant predictors of violence severity; 2) context-specific measures accounted for more of the explained variation in violence severity than did individual-specific measures; 3) early-start and late-start offenders did differ with respect to history of violence, presence of a comorbid clinical condition such as a personality disorder or substance abuse and current life circumstances. Implications for theory refinement, clinical practice and program development are discussed and future avenues of research are considered.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4738.pdf: 3913379 bytes, checksum: 8291de03f64c1c34393fc238cd698a5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-26 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / This research, from a socio-historical perspective, focused the theme of young urban popular authors of offense and their relationship with the Public School in the city of São Carlos, São Paulo. Its overall objective was to investigate the relationship between the condition of youth enrolled in poverty and their school careers steeped interventions by institutions recognized as protection, according to the Statute of Children and Adolescents, once sparked the offense, in our case, the Núcleo de Atendimento Integrado (NAI). To this end, we worked with the monitoring and reconstruction of life stories of young people who committed the offense as well as analyzed the school reporting of young graduates from NAI System since its introduction in 2000 until the year 2009. This resulted in the production of a database with information from 2969 school reportings and the reconstruction of 10 teenagers life stories. Using these two data sources based on the understanding that the statistics can offer visibility and ability to generalize what their life stories is restricted because of their uniqueness, while those same stories, the depth of description and the accumulation of information, can qualify and provide concreteness to statistical analysis. Thus, the main results that this work points that young people that living in poor urban neighborhoods, attending Public School and accumulating grade failing, grade/age distortion and a high turnover within and among schools are more likely to enter the social-justice system. We emphasize the need to review the award to adolescence brand of social vulnerability, focusing the care failure and vulnerable situations that arise in the medium term in relation to the offenses are placed since the Childhood. Thus, points that the Public School is a protective element in the life of these young people, showing to the education sector linked to other social policies and family/community care that still need to be undertaken in Elementary School. Finally, it identifies the inadequacy of the system of social educational measures, focusing on open environment, its inefficiency in relation to the insertion and monitoring of their adolescents in the regular education and the demonstration that the entry in this system entails the incompleteness and the 'failure' of school life. We hoped that this study can provide references for coping vulnerabilities surrounding the daily life of adolescents and young urban popular groups and the construction of a Public School with the ability, at the same time providing quality education for all and recognizing the unique demands of caring for their students. The logic here is that this school is possible, since articulated with the network of local protection, services and community, and the operators realize the complexity of life and necessities showed by their public. / A presente pesquisa, a partir de uma perspectiva sócio-histórica, debruçou-se sobre a temática dos jovens populares urbanos autores de ato infracional e a sua relação com a Escola Pública, na cidade de São Carlos, interior de São Paulo. Seu objetivo geral foi investigar as relações entre a condição juvenil inscrita na pobreza e seus percursos escolares perpassados por intervenções de instituições reconhecidas como de proteção, segundo o Estatuto da Criança e Adolescente, uma vez deflagrado o ato infracional; no caso em estudo, o Núcleo de Atendimento Integrado (NAI). Para tanto, trabalhou-se com o acompanhamento e a reconstituição de histórias de vida de jovens que cometeram ato infrancional, bem como se analisou históricos escolares dos jovens egressos do Sistema NAI desde sua implantação, no ano de 2000, até o ano de 2009. Isso resultou na produção de um banco de dados com informações provenientes de 2969 históricos escolares e na reconstituição da história de vida de 10 adolescentes descritas e discutidas em seis narrativas. O uso dessas duas fontes de dados fundamenta-se na compreensão de que os dados estatísticos podem ofertar a visibilidade e a capacidade de generalização que nas histórias de vidas, por sua singularidade, é restrita, ao passo que essas mesmas histórias, pela profundidade da descrição e pelo acúmulo de informações, podem qualificar e dar concretude à análise estatística. Os principais resultados deste trabalho demonstram que são os jovens moradores das periferias urbanas, que frequentam a Escola Pública e que acumulam em sua trajetória escolar repetências, evasões, distorção série/idade e uma rotatividade intra e inter escolas, os mais propensos a adentrarem o sistema sociojurídico. Destaca-se a necessidade da revisão da atribuição à fase da adolescência da marca da vulnerabilidade social, colocando-se em foco que as insuficiências no cuidado e as situações de vulnerabilidade das quais podem decorrer, em médio prazo, o envolvimento com os atos infracionais estão presentes desde a Infância. Por outro lado, os dados evidenciam que a escola representou um elemento protetivo na trajetória desses jovens, demonstrando, para o setor educação, articulado com as demais políticas sociais e com a família/comunidade, que os cuidados precisam ser empreendidos ainda na Educação Infantil e no Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental. Identificou-se também a inadequação do sistema de medidas socioeducativas, com foco nas de meio aberto, sua ineficiência no que se refere à inserção e ao acompanhamento dos adolescentes no ensino regular, bem como a demonstração de que a entrada nesse sistema acarreta dificuldades ainda maiores para uma trajetória escolar que já apontava precariedades importantes antes mesmo do ato infracional. A não finalização das etapas de escolarização, regular ou a de jovens e adultos, e o insucesso são marcas carregadas por esses jovens. Espera-se que este estudo possa oferecer referências para estratégias de enfrentamento às vulnerabilidades que cercam o cotidiano de adolescentes e jovens de grupos populares urbanos e para a construção de uma Escola Pública com a capacidade, de ao mesmo tempo, oferecer qualidade para todos e reconhecer as demandas singulares de cuidado dos seus alunos. A lógica aqui é de que essa Escola é possível, desde que articulada à rede de proteção local, de serviços e comunitária, e que seus agentes apreendam a complexidade da vida e as necessidades apresentadas pelo seu público.

Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-05-15T13:53:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Amanda Santos Silva.pdf: 1397500 bytes, checksum: f7bef0bb1f6b48e922d079eba1dc6273 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2015-05-19T13:31:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Amanda Santos Silva.pdf: 1397500 bytes, checksum: f7bef0bb1f6b48e922d079eba1dc6273 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-19T13:31:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Amanda Santos Silva.pdf: 1397500 bytes, checksum: f7bef0bb1f6b48e922d079eba1dc6273 (MD5) / CAPES / Desde que foram instituídas, em 1990, as medidas socioeducativas, que se constituem em formas de responsabilização para adolescentes envolvidos em atos infracionais, têm sido tema de uma série de trabalhos, sobretudo, nos campos do Direito, da Educação e da Psicologia. Nas Ciências Sociais, no entanto, a produção ainda é insuficiente. São raras as pesquisas que discorrem sobre as medidas. Considerando a relevância das mesmas, o presente trabalho procura discutir o sistema socioeducativo, explorando mais profundamente a experiência da Bahia. De maneira geral, tratamos das práticas punitivas (e assistencialistas) que antecederam o sistema socioeducativo, do seu processo de construção e dos desafios vividos por ele. Nosso objetivo foi analisar o tratamento que o Estado vem dispensado ao público infanto-juvenil envolvido em práticas ilícitas, com foco no sistema socioeducativo.Since social-educational measures, which are forms of accountability for teenagers involved in illegal acts, were implemented in 1990, they have been the subject of a number of studies, especially in the fields of law, education and psychology. In the social sciences, however, production is still insufficient. There are a few studies that discuss the measures. Considering the importance of these studies, this paper discusses the social-educational system, exploring more deeply the experience of Bahia. In general, the paper discusses the punitive (and welfare) practices leading up to the social-educational system, its process of construction and the challenges experienced by it. Our goal was to analyze the treatment that the state has dealt to the children and youth involved in illegal practices, focusing on the social-educational system.