Essays about: "Violent offenders"

Showing result 11 - 12 of 12 essays containing the words Violent offenders.

  1. 11. A sexually violent predator - a rupture in U.S criminal punishment; a content analysis of the media response

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ida Hillerup Hansen; [2014]
    Keywords : sexually violent predator; pedophile anxiety; ableism disability ; U. S. Constitution and constitutional rights; civil commitment; treatment imperative;

    Abstract : This thesis investigated a rupture in the U. S. legal tradition of punishing sexual crime, initiatedby The Community Protection Act of 1990 and the Sexually Violent Predator Statute, that defined the criminal subject as a sexually violent predator. Thus, with this definition was initiated a new legislative innovation. READ MORE

  3. 12. Narratives of Desistance : A Social Cognitive Approach

    University essay from Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Johannes Berglund; [2011]
    Keywords : Criminal careers Desistance Social Cognition Narratives Self Identity;

    Abstract : In this thesis I have investigated the process of self-schematic transformation that has been argued that offenders undergo in order to desist from crime. In this thesis I have used narrative interviews with twelve desisting offenders consisting of five non-violent offenders and seven violent offenders. READ MORE