Criminal Law

Insanity or mental disorder has often been used by criminals or defendants to explain the motives of their actions. When claiming to be insane, defendants imply that they were unable to refrain from committing a crime. This lessens the level of re...

Every offender that is in a correctional system or facility must undergo an assessment process after a specified period. The evaluation process frequently focuses on obtaining accurate information in regards to the offenders management and progres...

Forensic evaluation in most circumstances involves limited contact, an impartial stance, an adversarial forum and a critical assessment style rather than mere assertion by the client (Kalmbach & Lyons, 2006). Thus, forensic psychology is a unique ...

Many people all over the world assume that the judicial systems in their countries are far from being perfect. This explains why every year thousands of innocent people fall victims of the judicial system. Americans are no exception. The Americ...

Crime is any action that is termed as an offense and any person who commits a crime is liable to punishment by law. There are many reasons that make people commit crimes but people always associate situations such as poverty, lack of enough parent...

The United States of America stands out because of its unique sex offenders registration laws, which classify light offenses as sexual ones, thus receiving weighty punishments similar to a person who has raped or molested a minor (Finkelhor, 2009,...

Several criminals after facing the criminal charges and serving jail term periods they are still prone to the same criminal acts, some of them will still be arrested for committing similar crimes, and child sexual assault offenders are not an exc...

The introduction of the community notification by Megan is responsible for the continuous growth of sexual assault among children as well as adult (Duwe, & Donnay, 2008, p. 416). Statistically, the child sexual assault had been on the decrease s...

Determination of an efficient technique for decreasing the chances of recidivism in child sexual assault offenders remains a blow in various states, and the United States of America is not an exception either. Different scholars point behavioral...

There exists a variety of sexual offenses, and their naming might choose the direction of who commits the offense, medium of commission or the victim of the offense. However, this does not mean that there are limited options to the direction of...