Megan Kanka Case

However, my theory is that the Megan’s Law purpose was good but because of some loophole the recurrence can happen to another child. Until a therapy is implemented to rehab a sex offender from having the desire for a child there is no law that burden this issue. Getting the information to the public are great, but the community has to help in all areas to protect all of the children. It is important to let education them in our school and church to ensure their safety and the mean to protect himself until they can get to

During the week of March 28th, I dropped off a package that consisted of legal documents at the Louis Pastore building for Megan Clingham. It was not the first time that I had delivered packages to Megan and I sought out information about her.

Many states believe in rehabilitation for violent sex offenders while others believe in long term incarceration. Either way, the belief of proper legal sanction for sexual offenders are all the same. In states like Florida and New Jersey, laws were created to prosecute violators who abused, raped, molested, assaulted or kidnapped someone against their will. States then began to create laws that will give the victims of these horrifying sex crimes justice and in turn give the sex offender the correct punishment they deserve. When some civil commitment laws were revoked, the public’s outcry made states revisit and establish new laws that would help decrease the sex crime rate (Chittom and Cushman). Laws like Megan’s Law, Jessica’s Law, and Adam Walsh’s Law were created when their children had been abducted, raped,

In today’s society of internet sex crimes being broadcast on the evening news and 60 Minutes doing specials at least once a month. Are we paying enough attention to other sexual crimes and problems, such as the laws pertaining to juvenile sex offenders and their victims? Could more be done to help and protect the perpetrators, victims and their families?

A sex offender is a particular grouping of words that tends to scare people when they hear them together. It is even scarier when you think about the possible crime that might have gone along with being convicted as a sex offender. One of my favorite TV programs is Law and Order: SVU. Over the years, this show has portrayed a vast variety of heinous crimes. We as a society cringe when we think of something bad happening to our children and tend to judge before we know the full story. This paper will talk about some of Megan’s law and similar laws in the state of Mississippi.

The American justice system is sometimes faulty and often time repeat offenders slips through the cracks and commit the same or some of the most horrific crimes. The system failed to be proactive with some of its laws and put regular citizens’ lives at risk. Unfortunately, this system proved ineffective for the Kanka family, when an unregistered repeat sex offender moved into their neighborhood and enticed seven- year old Megan to his home where he raped and killed her. Numerous petition was signed, and the Megan Law was born is currently in effect statewide. Therefore, all sex offenders should be public because this will promote an informed neighborhood and accountability.

Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was sexually assaulted and killed by Jesse Tim Medequas a released sex offender along with two other ex-offenders (Winick and La Fond, 213). Megan's parents and the community were extremely angry at the fact that they did not receive any type of notification that a released sex offender especially a violent one was living amongst them. In 1996 in New Jersey, Megan's Law implemented guidelines for sex offender registration and nationally mandated notification systems be implemented across the states to notify communities of sex offenders living among them. The registry requires all sex offenders to register their personal information such as their name, address, and crime. The notification system requires police

A public tragedy often leads to measures being taken to avoid similar tragic events in the future. In 2006, proposition #83 was officially passed by 70% of California voters for the protection of children from repeat sex offenders who had been convicted before. The story behind why the proposition # 83 was originally passed is also a another tragic. Jessica Lunsford, only nine years old, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a convicted sex offender named John Couey who was not under the police surveillance and he had relapsed into the same criminal behavior, after receiving sanctions that was not strict enough. Stricter sanctions could had hold him still in jail. If he received rehabilitation, the chances of him relapsing into the crime would had been lower according to the data showing a reduction in recidivism therapy. According to Weinrott & Blackshaw (1989), the recidivism rates for offenders who were treated were reduced compared to recidivism rates for offenders who were not treated. With better police surveillance, the crime could have been prevented if the sex offender was on guard and on lifetime global positioning (prop 83). After proposition was passed, officers are now ordered to keep track of sex offenders and they are forbidden from entering in areas near schools and parks where kids are usually present. It also increased the penalties for repeated sex offenders. Because of this new law, children are now better protected from sex

A bill to put repeat offenders in jail for life passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July of the year 2000. (Green) Congresswomen Jo Ann Davis voted in favor of this legislation. She said, "We must do all we can to protect our children from sexual abuse." (News) I do not agree that we have done all we can to protect children, when we allow the abuser to effect a second child.

This issue actually is very relevant to me. After learning of the tragic death of Reagan Tokes by a convicted sex offender, my roommates and I took it upon ourselves to look up how many registered sex offenders lived nearby our apartment, here off campus in Columbus. The number was astronomically high, and truthfully kind of scared each of us. Thus, I did not respond greatly to this news, it made me uncomfortable and uneasy to think about someone like that living so close to me.

A Christian nurse who was dismissed from a hospital in Dartford, Kent for offering to pray with patients was just showing compassion, according to her lawyer.

In the case study “Limited Access” about Kanisha, a college student who is paralyzed from the waist down. Furthermore, she is having problems finding appropriate parking and is looking annexed, tried and depressed; one of her professors has made insensitive/prejudice remarks about her wheelchair in his classroom. We will look at specific statements in the NASW Code of Ethics that address these issues as it relates to this case study such as discriminating against people with physical disabilities, service and social justice.

In the overwhelming majority of cases of sexual offenses, the victim knows the perpetrator and is usually not a stranger. In a poll of sex crimes against children 88% of the respondents recognize that these acts generally involve perpetrators who are related to or otherwise know the victim (Bumby, Carter, Gilligan, & Talbot, 2010, p. 2). According to research conducted in New York over a nine year period, shows that sex offender laws target only a small percentage of known and registered sex offenders. These laws create a false sense of security, which the sex offender will be a

When we hear the words “sex offender” we immediately think about a grown man who has sexually abused a young girl or boy. We call them pedophiles or predators but we never stop to think that the sex offender can also be a woman or even a young girl/boy who has sexually assaulted another minor. This is mainly due to the fact that we don’t hear about it in the news as much as when a grown man commits the offense. In the world we live in today which is full of many social media sites we are now becoming more aware of these types of offenses being committed and therefore coming to the attention of law enforcement as well. For this paper I will be defining juvenile sex offenders as males and females between the ages of 6 and 16 as many states already

When I navigated to the sex offender registry I was expecting to see a few, perhaps 5 or 6, sex offenders in my area. Once I entered in my address and all the little flags popped up on the screen I was disgusted, I counted fifty of the markers. This appalled me considering I live near a school and multiple parks, and these are all areas that children frequent. This perplexed me, I thought the state actively worked to ensure that sex offenders were not put in a situation where they could potentially get caught up once more. This was coupled with the knowledge that these men had committed heinous crimes, all of them aggressive in nature. A few of the crimes include, but are not limited to, indecency with a child (Sexual Contact), possession of child pornography, aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child by exposure, and attempt to commit aggravated kidnapping by sexual abuse. All of the victims were underage children, the oldest was sixteen years old and the youngest was three. The most common recurring age was thirteen, and it occurred in about half the cases if not