Sentencing Brock Turner : Not Harsh Enough

California enacted the first sex offender register law in 1944. However, sex offender registers in the United States did not become widespread until the 1990s. The Jacob Wetterling Act 1994 was named after 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling who was abducted and to this day has never been found. The Jacob Wetterling Act implemented the first nation-wide sex offender register. Originally, the concept of a sex offender register was intended to for use solely by law enforcement; it was not an intention for the sex offender register to be public. However in 1996, Megan’s Law was added to the Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act 1994 and made it a requirement for the information on sex offender registers to be accessible by the public. Megan’s Law was enacted as a result of a heinous crime where 7-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by her neighbour, who had two previous convictions for sexually assaulting young girls. In 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. This Act required states to enact stricter registration requirements, including an increase in the penalty for not registering and more frequent verification of sex offenders’ locations. Since 2006 public access to sex offender registers has been accessible on the Internet in most states. On these websites you can search for an offender by name or location, and find information such as their photo, convictions, address,

Dustin Turner is innocent. He did not murder Jennifer Evans; however he is still serving an eighty-two year sentence in prison. Ten years more than what Billy Brown got sentenced. Turner has been locked away for half of his life. He deserves to be released. Although he waited 8 nerve-wrecking days to go to the police, he’s served his time to the system and the society to be released. Billy Brown should be the one to be sitting on death row waiting to get the chair for what he has done to Jennifer, her family, Dustin, his family, and even to his own family. Everyone is suffering from his drunken rage actions.

In the law a sentence is forms the final explicit act of judge rule process the sentence can generally involve a decree of imprisonment, a fine and or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a crime. We all have known this for years that this is that is how prison sentencing is done. Even though people should go away for the same crime, in reality prison sentencing is not fair because of people of different backgrounds, genders. and ethnicities face different sentences for the same crime. When it comes to society has high expectations for the criminal justice system. People expect a murderer, for example, to have the same sentence as another person. When a celebrity such as Bill Cosby gets put away for a rape he may go away for a shorter time than average Joe. The minimum sentencing for certain crimes, in this case, are longer than they should be. Why should people be sentenced to unlawful sentences and end up in jail until they are elderly and not a danger society?Unfair sentencing is a form of the unequal treatment often unexplained cause of why. We see a person go away for x amount of years and then someone else comes along and performs the same crime and gets less or longer than the other person.

Between 1993 and 1995, twenty four states enacted three strikes sentencing policy which calls for much harsher sentencing of repeat felony offender. Most sentences for these repeat offender called for a minimum punishment of a life sentence with possibility of release until twenty five years have been served (1 Marvell, Moody 89). These laws where created to target and punish what lawmakers believed to be the small percentage of criminals that where committing the majority of serious crimes such as murder, rape, kidnaping, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, and sexual abuse.

A college athlete, known as Brock Turner, age 20, raped an intoxicated woman in a public setting; he was arrested in 2015. There were two witnesses who caught Turner in the act. The victim came before the jury to express how Turner took advantage of her. The sex offender was convicted of 3 felony counts and the prosecutor ruled for him to serve a minimum 6 years in prison. Turner’s father made a statement to the judge saying, "This is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of actions out of his 20 plus years of life". The judge sentenced Turner to 6 months in prison, but he only completed 3 months as he didn’t serve his full initial sentence in prison.

Determinate sentencing is becoming more popular in juvenile courts. It is a special statute that allows for the possibility of a juvenile serving a sentence beyond the age of 21. It specifically covers certain violent offenses and drug cases, like murder, capital murder, sexual assault, and indecency with a child. Aggravated controlled substances cases are also covered (TYC website). The alternative to determinate sentencing is blended sentencing, which allows judges to issue delinquent offenders both juvenile and adult dispositions. Depending on the behavior of the delinquent while serving out their juvenile sentence, a fail-safe postadjudication stage occurs to determine whether or not their adult sentence

Brock Turner was an above average 19 year-old athlete and student at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio. While in high school, Turner was a three-time All American and was enrolled at Stanford University on a swimming scholarship. He was offered a scholarship to Stanford and he took it without any thought. One thing he never thought about was getting indicted of rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Everything that was just listed, is what he was charged with the night of his felony.

As a result, Brock Turner was sentenced to six months for his actions. He was also a hopeful Olympic swimmer and was banned from competing in USA Swimming competitions. Many in the country were furious that Turner was only sentenced to six months, believing that he deserved a more appropriate sentence. On the other hand, Turner’s father was upset that his son’s life was ruined by “20 minutes of action” while under the influence of alcohol. Despite the victim arguing for an appropriate legal prosecution and justice for the pain she suffered, the Supreme Court judge assigned to the case, Aaron Persky, stated, “a prison sentence would severe impact on him. I think he will not be a danger to others (Stack). Turner was even released early from

Honestly, anyone whom is identified as a sexual predator should not be released from prison under any circumstances. But because many are, the mental and personality disorders would help to determine the duration of the sentence in the outcome.

The average cost of keeping a single prisoner incarcerated in federal prison for a year is approximately $30,619.85 (Prisons Bureau, and Department of Justice). Multiply that number by the approximate 2,217,000 prisoners currently incarcerated and the cost of long sentences required by mandatory minimums starts to add up (Federal Bureau of Prisons).

SAN FRANCISCO>> In light of Brock Turner’s, release from prison on Sept. 2 there has been a nationwide discussion on sexual assault on college campuses.

It has been established that the current policy does not work as it was intended to, so thus it must be changed. William Rehnquist, a former Supreme Court Justice, stated his opinion of minimum sentencing during an often cited speech. As stated in his book Prison blues: How America 's Foolish Sentencing Policies Endanger Public Safety, David Kopek credits Rehnquist with stating:

This may seem good at first because the public have information about every sex offender possible in order to insure the communities’ safety; however a person should only be considered a sex offender if he or she committed a crime involving a sexual act such as rape, human traffickers, and child molestation. Unfortunately, many of those on the list are people who urinated in public, have consensual sex with a minor, visiting a prostitute, and teenagers who take naked photos of themselves who are then charged with child pornography. Of course, these sex offenders should not be praised for their actions, but they certainly should not receive the same penalty as a rapist. For example, in the article, Is It Fair for Sex Offenders to Stay Listed on a Registry for

Beckett et al (1994) concluded that short term programmes demonstrated positive outcomes for sex offender treatment, however this is determined on the level of deviancy of the offender. Low level deviancy had a positive outcome with the short treatment approach, whereas high level deviancy responded well to long term treatment programmes. Therefore it is recommended more specialist

1). On Thursday, November 16, 2015, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt announced, Defendant, Jared Fogle was sentenced to fifteen years and eight months in prison for distributing and receiving child pornography and for having sexual relations with minors (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). His sentence is more than the twelve and half years that prosecutors agreed to seek in a plea deal (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). However, Pratt stated the prosecution’s advisory sentence range of 135 to 168 months "does not sufficiently account for the defendant's criminal conduct” (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). Federal imprisonment law requires that detainees serve at least 85 percent of their sentences (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). Fogle was also order to pay a $175,000 (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). Fogle also agreed to pay $100,000 to each of his 14 victims (Associated Press, 2015, p. 1). Furthermore, Judge Pratt recommended that Fogle be sent to a prison in Littleton, Colo., “because of its program for sex offenders” because “the level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme" (Berman, 2015, p.