Patriae potestas in Latin means "power of the father" (Encyclopedia, 2014) that the patriarch of the family had explicit power in the Roman Empire to determine the fate of those who lived in what was by law on his property – the other members. In this reference, the father has the capacity to decide whether a child should live or die, or even be sold (Doerner & Lab, 2012). Again, reducing them to little more than property and prone to abuse. Civil commitment refers to the imprisonment of those who have completed their prison sentence but still pose a potential threat to the safety and welfare of the general public (Department, 2014). . In this case, Leroy Hendricks, a convicted child molester, admitted that he still had sexual desires to molest children during his civil commitment trial. As the time for his release from prison came, authorities considered how to mitigate his release while ensuring public safety, with the determination to continue his confinement. However, Hendricks argued that this was a double punishment: he was being imprisoned again for a past crime for which he had already served time. But because his pedophilia was classified as a mental illness, the powers that be determined his civil commitment until he was deemed fit to go public (University, 1997). In short, the civil terminology revoked the double jeopardy discussed by Hendricks and allowed that, if a child molester in a similar case was found to be unrehabilitated, she could be civilly confined until deemed capable of returning to the audience. The concept behind home visits as a coping strategy to combat child abuse is to mitigate it before it occurs or detect signs of child abuse by asking public health agencies to 'carry out visits every hour...... middle of paper .... Even though Ehrlich Coker had a long list of prior crimes that also included rape and had escaped from prison, the act of rape n It was not considered offensive in relation to that of murder and did not, the court declared, constitute the death penalty in return. This was neither unusual nor the first, given that juries had returned a verdict of the death penalty for a crime other than death, but this verdict (Coker v. Georgia) was used and upheld by the Supreme Court to overturn these decisions (Silverstein, 2002). Unfortunately, there are many myths surrounding rape and the predominant belief that the majority of rapes are committed by strangers while "two-thirds of rape victims have a prior relationship with the attacker" (Doerner & Lab, 2012 ). This rape cannot happen by someone who is neither a stranger nor a non-stranger. For example, there is a belief that a woman cannot be raped by her husband..