Sexual Offenders and the Law Joseph D. Williams Professor Weslea Bell English 215 10 June 9, 2015 Sexual Offenders and the Law Sexual offender registry is a deeply emotional and intuitive issue. The issue has captured the support of the politicians and the community, but the upsurge of outwardly automatic public support has enabled and encouraged the legislators to move to fast very quickly. The representatives latched onto this issue because it is a political strategy for accumulating votes
Sex Offender Industry How is one defined if they are convicted of urinating in public, or participating in incest? Patronizing prostitutes? Touching another being inappropriately or sexual assault? All of the above makes perfect justification to be defined as a sex offender. As a repercussion of the sex crime, one May be incarcerated or put under community supervision. Regardless of the severity or natures of the crime, as well as age, all sex offenders share a common factor. Following their conviction
Center for Sex Offender Management “It is estimated that one in every five girls and one in every seven boys are sexually abused by the time they reach adulthood”. The United States has many laws aimed to reduce sexual offenders but the annual percentages for sexual offenses have stayed the same ever since the laws were established. This research is not intended to lessen the gravity of sexual offenses but to understand that our laws against sex offenders are not preventing the sexual offenses. The
“Most criminological theories proposed over the years are theories of criminality rather than of crime and seek to understand and investigate the developmental and/or biological factors responsible for turning individuals into offenders. In the sexual offending empirical literature more specifically, the focus has largely been on the personal dimensions of the behavior.” (Deslauriers-Varin & Beauregard, 2010) The focus of current criminological theories has not shifted to situational theories and
adequately discriminate between and among sex offenses and the overuse of the label “sex offense” has led to the polarization and over criminalization of sex crimes and has resulted in a lack of reintegration options for these alleged criminals. The term “sex offender” needs to be reserved for those individuals who best represent the meaning of the term. (Colbert, 2011, p. 1) According to US Department of Justice, a sex offender is anyone convicted of an offense of a sexual nature under the law of any jurisdiction
deemed detrimental to public safety. For this reason, Sex Offender Registration Laws were originally established as a risk management tool for law enforcement to monitor sex offenders as a means of deterrence. “There are perhaps no crimes that inspire as much fear, revulsion, and outrage as sexual offenses” (Levenson, Grady & Leibowitz, 2016). Opponents to current Sex Offender Registration laws point to public access to sex offender registries, all-encompassing registration criteria and lifetime registration
Sexual offenders are the most vilified type of offenders within public opinion and the criminal justice system. The American precedent cases of Jacob Wetterling, Pam Lyncher, Megan Kanka, and other notorious crimes perpetrated by sexual offenders with a prior history of conviction have demanded a response from the criminal justice system to increase public safety. In 1994, the Jacob Wetterling Crimes against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Program was passed (Scholle, 2000), the
can be place on the National Sex Offender Registry is age 6. Yes, a kindergarten and be found to be a sexual predator as society puts it. Individuals on the registry are all treated equal by the public no matter the details of their actual crime. Even though the sex offender registry is a positive tool in the protection of society, the registry needs to be evaluated because sexual assault is not the only form of child abuse, non-violent offenders are on the registry, and children are now required
supported offering people second chances. Sex offenders should be included in that statement. Even people who commit the worst of crimes deserve this chance, but sex offender laws inhibit them from having this second chance. Presently, the laws enacted against sex offenders are unfair and ineffective. Even though most offenders are released into the community after serving jail, finding and maintain a suitable job is almost impossible with the current sex offender laws. Most companies and employers see
enforcement agency that obtained the offender’s information is responsible for entering the data into the appropriate record system and notifies the appropriate law enforcement agency that resides over the jurisdiction of the offender. All of the data collected from the offender will also be transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Every year on the date of the person’s initial registration the state law enforcement agency will mail them a nonforwardable verification form to their last reported