Please read the following case study regarding “Silly Billy” refer to the attached document titled “MAJ 6615-Case Study-Ethical and Legal Issues.” After you have read the case study, select a minimum of five legal and/or ethical issues that are relevant to this case. Please refer to the information covered in this week’s readings and resources folder to assist you with this assignment. Once you have identified the legal and/or ethical issues in the case study, explain how you would apply what you have learned about prisoner’s rights, cruel and unusual punishment, criteria for civil commitment, right to rehabilitation, etc. to resolve and address these issues.
Your paper should be in APA format and be at least 3-4 pages in length. The cover page, abstract and bibliography are not included in the 3-4 page minimum.
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Silly Billy Case Study
Please read the following case study. After you have read the case study regarding Silly Billy, select five specific legal or ethical issues that are relevant to this case. Then address how you plan on dealing with these issues if you were his criminal justice counselor.
Silly Billy is a 37 year old male who is an inmate in your maximum security facility. Silly Billy has recently been transferred to your facility from another facility, largely for protective reasons. Silly Billy has come to you because he is very, very worried. Silly Billy is a pedophile and he has been in prison for nearly five years. His expected release date is coming up and he may very well get released due to prison overcrowding problems and his own exemplary behavior. He has been in treatment and as you look through his case noted, you can tell that he has done very well.
But there were other inmates at his prior prison facility who did not want to see him get paroled. In fact, it is a powerful inmate gang, and Silly Billy had received protection from this gang in exchange for providing sexual favors to a select trio of inmate gang members. Silly Billy discloses that while humiliating, he had to do this to survive in the prison subculture, particularly since he was a labeled and known pedophile. The gang knew this, of course, and used this as leverage to ensure that Silly Billy was compliant. In fact, the gang never even had to use any physical force whatsoever to gain Silly Billys compliance. Silly Billy notes that this now bothers him and he doubts his own sense of masculinity.
Silly Billy has performed well in treatment for sex offenders. Bu he has also been adversely affected by noxious sexual experiences inside the prison. You are the first person that he has disclosed this to. Further, he is beginning to wonder is he may have HIV/AIDS; he notes that he feels fatigued more frequently and that he gets ill more easily. However, he makes it very clear that he does not want to be tested until he is out of prison and he does not want his fears known to others in the prison.
As you listen to his plight, you begin to wonder if his issues with sexuality are actually now more unstable than they were in prison. Though his treatment notes seem convincing, this is common among pedophiles. But what was not known to the other therapist was how Silly Billy had engaged in undesired sexual activity while incarcerated. This activity has created a huge rift in Silly Billys masculine identity. Will this affect his likelihood for relapse on the outside? Will Silly Billy be able to have a true adult-adult relationship on the outside? If not, will he be more enticed to have an adult-child relationship? Does Silly Billy need to resolve his concerns with consensual versus forced homosexual activity? You begin to wonder.
Now as you listen, you realize that if you make mention of this, then the classification system is not likely to release Silly Billy, and this condemns him to more of the same type of exploitation (gang members are in the prison, too; they are just of different gangs but will eventually learn of his past and follow suit with the prior gang). Oh, and if you do say something, will Silly Billy feel that honesty and counseling are simply an exercise in vulnerability and betrayal? Or do you not mention this information and by the same token allow someone to be released with a highly questionable prognosis.
You sit there listening to Silly Billy, who is on the verge of tears. You begin to wonder what you should do and what ethical and/or legal bounds you need to consider
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