User talk:Nia Mali

Thanks for the welcome!

Rehabilitation: Identifying the Career Criminal
Nia Mali 16:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Rehabilitation: Identifying the Career Criminal

Offender typologies

There are typically assumed to be two ways of approaching offender typologies. Traditionally, it has been throught the best approach was the classification of the type of crime begining with general classifications like crimes against persons versus crimes against property to specific subtypologies within offender categories such as Violent Offenders: Sex offenders: Child molesters, Rapists known to Victims /unknown to victims, Incest offenders, etc....

Due to the seminal work of Wolfgang et al.. 1972,(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...5Fencoding=UTF8), the idea of incident or crime type as the main typology tool as begun to change.

Wolfgang et al, 1972 followed a large birth cohort throughout adolescene and into early adult life. Their main finding, which has been replicated in other major birth cohort studies (see Tracey, et. al., 1990), is that about 7% of all criminals comitt about 70% of all crime. Hence the birth of the idea of a "career criminal model" (CCM). Let's identify the type of individual likely to be a career criminal and inturrupt that career by prevention, intervention, or incarceration.

The greatest difficulty with the application of this data is that the CCM has limitations in it's predictive power. It is not until a third felony conviction that a Career Criminal be identified as such.

Hence your general sentiment that one offense should result in life time incarceration would mean as a society we would be locking up a group of individuals, who if released, would not have re-offended. This is the quandry we face. It is a huge financial cost to incarerate for life. Are the sentiments of most that laws should be changed to equate certain (or perhaps all) sex offenses to murder? Thus the ability to redirect sentencing guidelines to the maximum?

How should we (society) approach this dilemia. Do we serve the interest of the many? protect the rights of a few? Your thoughts are welcomed and appreciated.

Adoption

 * 1) Hey Nia Mali, as the current leader of the law enforcement wikiproject and (I hope) a reasonably experienced user, I could adopt you if you like, and answer any questions you might have? SGGH 19:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Nia Mali, if you would like to be adopted by me please leave a message on My talk page. I can teach you about Wikipedia, WikiProjects, templates, etc. Leave me a message. Michael Norkus 00:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Law Enforcement Barnstar Proposal Poll
 Hello there ,

We here at Wikiproject Law Enforcement are currently in the process of deciding wither or not to make this WikiProject Law Enforcement's official Barnstar award. Being that you are a member of Wikiproject Law Enforcement, we are humbly asking you to voice your opinion here about our new Barnstar.

Thank You and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 20:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

--Mifter (talk) 20:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)