what assessment tools are used to predict if violent criminals will re-offend?
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type of crime committed, types of previous crimes, any increase in severity over time, treatment available and utilized while incarcerated, psychological make-up of individual, support system available upon release, drug and alcohol use, aggravating and mitigating circumstances surrounding the crime, statistical recidivism rates etc.
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Murder: 35%\nManslaughter: 26%\n\n\n**see the 2nd link! It will have tons more info sex, age, ethnicity!! It will have charts and graphs too! However this is for the state of WA data collected 2005\n\nYou can also search with the word "Recidivism" to search for a specific state.
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That's a pretty loaded question, but there are certainly ways that crime can be useful. For instance, overthrowing governments, riots against unjust laws or rulers, and civil disobedience to draw attention to abuses of power or inequalities. Crime is defined by the law, so crime that leads to the repeal of unjust laws could be considered useful.
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I don't know but you may want to look at Foucault since he proposed a lot of changes about how we think about and treat criminals.  It may be a start.
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How the mind of criminals work i.e serial killers & stuff like that.  You learn why they do what they do - I'll give you the answer now, they all blame it on their childhood (what a cop out)!!\n\nIt should be really interesting - I did a few weeks of it on my current course & I loved it.\n\nGood luck
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Go to http://www.familywatchdog.us/\n\nyou can enter your address and a map will come up and show a little house to represent your home and little colored boxes where there are registered offenders. If you click on the colored boxes, it will show u a picture of the offender give their address , and the offense they were conficted of, as well as the distance from your home
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That's a tough one. I think it is better to keep innocent people out of jail at all costs. Although frightening to let criminals walk I suspect most of them will be caught again.
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levle 3 list,and possible incarseration,definatly some classes such as batterers class which is a pain in the butt,and alot more check out ur local police department web page u can get information off of that
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it depends on what city or country your living in ..\nin singapore for example,theyre very harsh but it works for them\nevery offense has an equivalent punishment.. some would say barbaric punishment.. they say it makes the people aware that their government is serious when it comes to crime...
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It's a pre-sentencing analysis of a defendant to assess their capabilities, used in several state court systems. Do a search with the terms in quotes and you'll find out more specifics.
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It depends on how often the offense has happened and the severity of it.
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this might help......www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62139
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There are 4 sometimes competing theories:\n1. Retribution -- if you mess up you deserve to be punished. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. This theory is supported by the metaphysical idea that when a crime is not punished for -- it somehow continues to exist.\n2. Deterrence -- We will punish a criminal so that others will see that their actions have consequences -- and will hopefully stop behaving in a bad way.\n3. Rehabilitation -- if a person commits a crime -- he is probably a messed up individual -- so we should punish him in such a way as to make him a better person\n4. Isolation -- by putting a person who has committed a crime in jail -- we physically prevent him from committing any further crime.\n\nIt is worth noticing that The Deterrence and Rehabilitation theories -- look forward to improving society, Retribution is looking to the past only, and Isolation is really just a stop-gap measure.
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Here is a site about passive-aggressive personalities.\nhttp://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/papd.htm
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Does this work for you?\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html\n\n\nI also came across this tidbi you might find interesting.\n\nSome crime statistics from 19th Century India are particularly illuminating with regard to our thesis. In 1881 the frequency of crime by religion was as follows: one of 274 Christian Europeans committed a crime; one of 799 Christian Indians did so; one of 1,361 Hindus; and one of 3,787 Buddhists. If the Jains had been included in this count, one would have expected an even higher ratio for them. With regard to the native Christian count, an English official made the following observation: "It appears from these figures that while we effect a very marked moral deterioration in the natives by converting them to our creed, their natural standard of morality is so high that, however much we Christianize them, we cannot succeed in making them altogether as bad as ourselves." An 1899 statistical dictionary reported that for every 100,000 people in Western Europe there were from 100-230 prisoners; 190 for England; and 38 for India.\n\nhttp://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/hindfund.htm\n\n\n\nThere may be something here:\nhttp://www.thearda.com/\n\nOr here:\nhttp://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/
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The area under the ROC curve shows how good your test is at discriminating the (for example) re-offenders from the non-re-offenders. So it is binary - i.e. they do or they don't. Hence if you guess the outcome, by chance alone, you would have a 50% chance (or 1/2) out of getting the correct outcome. And if your test gave you that ROC graph, then it's worthless because you might as well be guessing.\n\nOn the other hand, if the area under your curve is 1 then it means your test can distinguish a re-offender to a once-off offender _every_ time. So basically, you want a test that will give you an area as close to 1 as possible. \n\nROCs are different to correlational measures because in your test, you are assuming a cut-off point on some scale. That cut off is essentially the test. Correlations deal with continuum scales (e.g. score on antisocial behaviour scale correlated with illegal activity), whereas ROCs are about measuring 2 different populations who are assumed to overlap a little on some measure.
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Don't get excited by a new word.\n\nWhat caused the crime?\n Environment?\n Mental impairment?\n Motivations of revenge?\n Passion? (blinded by love or infatuations)\n Learned behavior?\n\nThe list goes on and on. The arguments can be appreciated by both sides in the interest of justice and corrections.