What is child sexual abuse, and what is known about abusers?
What will be an ideal response?
CSA includes a variety of criminal and civil offenses in which an adult engages in sexual activity with a minor, exploits a minor for purposes of sexual gratification, or exploits a minor sexually for purposes of profit
There are few similarities among CSA offenders, aside from the finding that almost all are male. Groth's typology identifies two main types of offenders. Regressed offenders primarily are attracted sexually to their own age groups but are passively aroused by minors. Their behavior is often affected by drugs or alcohol. Fixated offenders are adult pedophiles who engaged in planned sexual acts with children and whose behavior is not necessarily influenced by drugs or alcohol.
Most CSA victims do not become child molesters themselves, but if other intervening factors are also present, sexual victimization as a child may contribute to later development of an individual as a perpetrator of CSA.
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Summarize the organization of state courts.
What will be an ideal response?
A specialized unit established by some police departments to address the problem of gangs is called a ________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Open prison systems do not permit autonomous wardens who run their prisons as they desire and answer to no one
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Lawyers are often steeped in "legalese." As a result, their efforts at justice are constrained by the search for a ________ remedy
a. legal b. extralegal c. logical d. socially just