The Power Reassurance Rapist

žHe has low self-esteem that permeates his life and is probably seen as an underachiever.

žHe is described by those who know him as being gentle, quiet, and passive.

žHe is considered to be a "loner."

žHe may be a member of several online chat rooms.

žHe takes little pride in his personal appearance.

Vincent Power

•A SEX fiend who raped a 17-year-old girl has been jailed for six years and nine months.

•Power carried out the attack in the early hours of Saturday 12 February.

•As she approached the junction with Tonge Street he grabbed her from behind and put his hand over her mouth. He threatened to kill her if she made a noise and then raped her.

The Power Assertive Rapist

žHas a macho image and the most important thing to him is that he be seen as such.

žHe is very self-centered and does not like to be under the control of others.

žHe drinks a "masculine drink" and hangs out at clubs, bars, and locations where he finds his victim.

žHe takes pride in his appearance.

žThere is a history of conflict with women because of his selfish behavior.

Anand Jon

•Anand Jon, who appeared on the popular television show America's Next Top Model

•46 counts involving 18 girls and women between the ages of 14 and 27, all with ties to the fashion industry.

•Prosecutors say Jon is a serial sex offender who lured women and girls with promises of modeling work.

•the designer has dressed such celebrities as Paris Hilton and Janet Jackson,

The Anger Rapist

žHis personality is explosive and may have prior arrests as a result of this.

žHe acts impulsively.

žPersonal acquaintances often report a "dark side" to his personality or lifestyle.

žHe may abuse alcohol.

žThere may be a history of domestic abuse with prior girlfriends or wives.

Gregory Seamons

•Seamons held a gun to a woman's head and then raped her

•has known the alleged victim for three years

•Seamons waved a gun around and she was scared for her well-being.

•Seamons has a varied criminal history and has served state time in idaho for burglary,

Lukasik said Seamons says he has a drinking problem

The Sadistic Rapist

žHe is usually a white male, outgoing, and well liked.

žHe has a white-collar job.

žHe is compulsive.

žHe may subscribe to bondage pornography.

žHe is often happily married.

žHe may have an above average IQ.

Jon Leaver

•A "sadistic" rapist who filmed himself attacking a 19-year-old woman

•planned to send the phone images of the attack to his friends

•after befriending the woman in a Leigh nightclub, Leaver brutally raped and assaulted her, breaking her jaw in two places

•After being disturbed by a passer-by, Leaver assaulted the woman and dragged her unconscious to a back street, where he continued to punch her in the face.

•Leaver ran off after being disturbed a second time, leaving the woman to be helped by a member of the public.

Teachers and their students

Jennifer Rice

žA former elementary school teacher in Tacoma, Wash., is behind bars for allegedly kidnapping and raping her 10-year-old student numerous times.

žmet the fourth-grade boy shortly after being hired last year as a replacement teacher at McKinley Elementary School.

žRice took the boy with her when she left a party in his East Tacoma neighborhood around 3 a.m. Thursday

žthey stopped at a rest area, napped and then had sex.

Karla Homolka and

Paul Bernardo

žBernardo was involved in raping women with the approval of Homolka.

ždubbed as the Scarborough Rapist

žHis specialty was to attack women getting off of busses, making them endure violent anal rape and different levels of humiliation.

žHomolka, devoted to pleasing Bernardo every way possible, knew of his attraction to her 15-year-old sister, Tammy, whose virginity was intact.

žthe two took Tammy to the basement and Homolka held a cloth soaked in Halothane to Tammy's mouth.

žOnce Tammy was unconscious the couple raped her.

žDuring the rape Tammy began choking on her own vomit and ultimately died.

žThe drugs in Tammy's system went undetected and her death was officially ruled an accident.

žHomolka administered the Halothane, and presented her present, the young pretty Jane, to Bernardo.

ž The couple then engaged in brutal sexual attacks of the unconscious teen, capturing the events on videotape.

žThe next day when the teenager awoke, she was sick and sore but had no idea of the violation her body had endured.

žOn June 15, 1991 Bernardo kidnapped Leslie Mahaffy and brought her to the couple's home.

žBernardo and Homolka repeatedly raped Mahaffy over a course of several days, videotaping many of the assaults.

žThey eventually killed Mahaffy and cut her body into pieces, encased the pieces in cement, and threw the cement in a lake.

žOn April 16, 1992, the couple kidnapped 15-year-old Kristen French from a church parking lot after Homolka lured her to their car, pretending to need directions.

žThe couple brought French to their home and for several days videotaped their acts of humiliating, torturing and sexually abusing the teen.

žFrench tried hard to survive the attack but right before the couple left for Easter Sunday dinner with Homolka's family, they killed her.

Her body was found on April 30 in a ditch in Burlington.

First Responders to the Crime Scene

žReconstruct what happened and establish that a crime occurred;

žIdentify, document and collect evidence of what occurred;

žLink the victim and the suspect to the scene of the crime;

žIdentify and locate any witnesses; and

žIdentify and apprehend the person(s) who committed the crime.

žOn-scene physical evidence is anything tangible that can establish a crime was committed or link the crime and the victim and/or the perpetrator and the victim.

žinvestigators should photograph and videotape any sign of a struggle at the scene, such as broken furniture or other objects and items in disarray

žPreserve the bedding, or any other object on which the rape took place, and send it to the crime lab for analysis.

žthe transfer of physical evidence in the form of semen, blood, hairs, skin fibers or other trace evidence, which will prove vital in identifying the assailant and/or prosecuting the case.

žperforming the medical examination within 72 hours of the assault

žtaking a history of the assault

ždocumenting the general health of the victim, including menstrual cycle, potential allergies, and pregnancy status

žassessment for trauma and taking photographic evidence of injuries

žtaking fingernail clippings or scrapings

žtaking samples for sperm or seminal fluid

žcombing head/pubic hair for foreign hairs, fibers, and other substances

žcollection of bloody, torn, or stained clothing

žtaking samples for blood typing and DNA screening

Zionism is not a bad word. Zionism is the national revival movement of the Jewish people. It holds that the Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Historically, Zionism strove to create a legally recognized national home for the Jews in their historical homeland. This goal was implemented by the creation of the State of Israel. Today, Zionism supports the existence of the state of Israel and helps to inspire a revival of Jewish national life, culture and language.

The modern Zionist movement is accredited to Theodore Herzl in 1897. He was a secular or nationalist Zionist. He wanted a place for Jews to call their own, a place where we as Jews could go and be safe, without free of a pogrom, or a holocaust. The treatment of the Jews since the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. (Common Era) has been one of persecution and hardship. Throughout the middle ages the Jew had been thrown out of every nation in the West and merely tolerated in the Arab world. Yes, Jews were allowed to live in the Arab world but they had to pay a tax to be Jewish. The desire of the Jews was to obtain a little piece of the earth to call their own. Like every national group in the world even the Palestinian. They want a place to call home. They want a place where they could worship their G-d, in their tradition. Herzl did not care where this place was to be created. There was talk of putting it on the northern coast of Africa. There was talk of putting Zion, Israel anywhere. Hertzl did not care. He was not a religious Jew. Again Zionism did not start with Herzl.

The idea of a Jewish restoration also took the fancy of British intellectuals for religious and practical reasons. British religious support for restoration of the Jews can be traced back to the Puritans and beyond. It was renewed in the theology of the Plymouth Brethren founded by J.N. Darby in the early 19th century. The restoration was championed in the 1840s by Lords Shaftesbury and Palmerston, who in addition to religious motivations thought that a Jewish colony in Palestine would help to stabilize and revive the country, Jewish national stirrings were also voiced by novelists and writers such as Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot and Walter Scott.

Puritan support for restoration of the Jews was transferred to the United States with the arrival of the Puritans. Increase Mather and many others were early champions of restoration of the Jews in 17th century United States. This idea became assimilated into the mainstream of U.S. ideas and culture and was supported by Presidents beginning with John Adams. In more recent times, it has also become the project of fundamentalist sects, including those derived from dispensationalist doctrines.

The first groups of immigrants who came to the land with the idea of turning the land into a national home for the Jews are known as the "first Aliya." "Aliya" literally means "going up" and it is term Jews have used for a long time for coming to the holy land. Beginning in the 1870s, religious and nonreligious Jews established several study groups and societies for purchasing land in Palestine and settling there. In 1870 the Alliance Israelite, an ostensibly non-Zionist organization, founded the Miqve Yisrael agricultural school near Beit Dagan.

The religious Zionists focused their sites on the traditional land of Israel. This dream was realized in 1917 with the establishment of the Balfour Declaration which promised a two state solution. A nation for the Jews that would comprise of all of Israel today and the land that was across the Jordan; the biblical territory controlled by King Solomon.

By 1919, representatives of the Jaffa Muslim-Christian council were saying Arab opposition to Zionism was not based only on economic and social issues. It was colored by the traditional Muslim vision of the Jews as second class citizens. They announced: "We will push the Zionists into the sea or they will push us into the desert" Anti-Jewish rioting and violence broke out in 1920 and 1921. By the 1920s, it was also motivated by a strong admixture of Western anti-Semitism. In March of 1921, Musa Kazim El Husseini, deposed as Mayor of Jerusalem because of his part in riots earlier that year, told Winston Churchill: “The Jews have been amongst the most active advocates of destruction in many lands... It is well known that the disintegration of Russia was wholly or in great part brought about by the Jews, and a large proportion of the defeat of Germany and Austria must also be put at their door.”

This war has continued since 1919. The end goal of the Arabs is the destruction of the Jews and Israel. The end goal of Israel is to ensure that the Jewish people are safe. Most Jews I know just want to live in peace in Israel with Jerusalem as their capital.

Everyone loves pizza. There is no way I can be a redneck I don't eat pig

What Your Pizza Reveals

There are no limits to your eating. You often devour the scraps your friends can't finish. You consider pizza to be bread... very good bread. You fit in best in the Midwest part of the US. You like food that's traditional and well crafted. You aren't impressed with "gourmet" foods. You are generous, outgoing, and considerate with your choices. You are cultured and intellectual. You should consider traveling to Vienna. The stereotype that best fits you is redneck. Your friends secretly agree.

Ethics, Criminal Justice and Religion

The concept of justice is almost as elusive as the face of G-d. Justice means something different to each and every person that seeks justice. To some justice is equality and fair treatment. To others it is the equal distribution of wealth, to others still it has a meaning of equal protection under the law. Philosophers have attempted to define justice as long as there have been philosophers on the earth. However and more specifically we are searching for criminal justice. Another term that is illusive and filled with controversy in searching for a definition. To some criminal justice is where the criminals of society receive all the rights, and protections and the victim gets nothing. Others believe that criminal justice is where the state exacts revenge on the offender for the victim. Criminal Justice should be a combination of both of these extremes. As Socrates shared with us that virtue is found within the two extremes. With that in mind criminal justice should be a practice of the state exacting a fair and just revenge against an offender for the victim of a crime with the rights and protections of the law. When a state seeks revenge for an offense it must be sure that the person they are pursuing is the person that committed the violation of law.

Religion has established a moral code of living throughout the history of religion. Within the constraints of religion moral principles have been established through certain universal truths like; there is a Supreme Being, the Supreme Being established a set of behaviors, and morality is obtained through the obedience and or grace of the Supreme Being. Justice is a side affect of these universal truths.

Religion is considered a deontological theory of ethics because it requires us to perform those acts that conform to duties and rights, independent of the consequences. Morally correct acts are those that display the most intrinsic value. Within most religions there are two primary rules that every person must follow:

1) Love G-d above all else

2) Love your neighbor as yourself

If you follow these two rules according to just about every religion you will live a moral life. These rules are slightly different from the basic deontological theory where people are to always treat a person as an end and never as means, and to always treat people as you would like to be treated. In such religion places the greatest of all virtues as faith or belief in G-d.

A life lived in accordance with faith and belief tends to make everything black and white, right or wrong, righteous or evil. This is not a bad trait but it has a tendency to make zealots that wish to destroy everything that does not agree with their particular faith or belief. Through religion or a theocracy in search of criminal justice where we are looking for a fair and just revenge for offenses against society, justice is rarely every found.

Not everyone in the world accepts the existence of a Supreme Being let alone a universal truth to the moral principle established by this “so-called” Supreme Being. When dealing with these people as a religious person you must remember what every spiritual leader of every religion I know of has said, “You are to be a light, a shining example of how life should be lived.” Does this attitude allow for an immoral or amoral life to be lived by many people? Yes, it does. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle both declared that choice or free will was the main element in living a moral life. You have the right to use the knowledge that you have gained either through study (Aristotle) or Devine revelation (Aquinas) to choose the actions that you take.

In western society the search for criminal justice has to remain in the secular, natural law area of moral life, because criminal justice seeks to protect the laws of the land. Sexual activities which are considered immoral in the religious realm are not necessarily a violation of societal laws. For example a few years ago a movie “Rumor Has It” depicted a story of a man (Kevin Costner) who had had a sexual relationship with a woman (Shirley MacLaine), her daughter (Jennifer Bini Taylor), and grand-daughter (Jennifer Anniston) over a period of 30 years. The man was never married to any of these three women. Within religion this activity would be a great taboo, and in some religious cultures if caught the women would be executed. In western society this activity became the topic of a movie, not illegal, not even frowned upon. In most cases the man would be touted for his sexual prowess.

In conclusion, although religious moral principles may assist the criminal justice professional in being a better person it does not necessarily make him or her a good professional. Criminal Justice is a natural virtue and although can be a result of religious faith or belief it needs to be a universal truth in itself not just a side affect of obedience or grace of the Supreme Being.