Sexual Offenders And Sex Registries

An Alabama convicted sex offender was charged Thursday with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Naomi Jones after finding Jones's body in a creek near her house.

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,

Additionaly, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is seen as a positive as well by law enforcement, “…believing it leads to improved community surveillance of sex offenders and deters them from reoffending” (Lasher & McGrath 9). The downside to this concept is the cost of implementing the notifications. It is a concern for law enforcement that the public could overreact, which would result in the need to allocate funds due to harassment (Lasher & McGrath 9). It has an impact on the economic system because people believe it needs to be implemented to keep everyone safe, and do not take into consideration the large amounts of money needed to put this act in place. An article tiled, “Sex Offenders Registration and

In my opinion, Mary Kay Leourneau was and still is a rapist, and I would qualify her has a female sex offender. Leourneau was educated and knew right from wrong, she was an elementary school teacher and she was also a respected member of society (Mary Kay Letourneau Biography 2016). Even though her marriage had problems, in no way does this make it ok for her to become involved with a child? Vili Fualaau is a victim for life; she took this kid a 13-year-old adolescent with his hormone changes and swings. At this age boys bodies are experiencing physical changes combined with mental changes, what do boys at this age think about sex. She manipulated the situation to her liking, by having him in her home and becoming friends with her son (Mary Kay Letourneau Biography 2016). I can’t even think what kind of psychological mental abuse her children had to face. She's not sick in the sense she has a psychological problem(s) from her past or her marriage, she knew exactly what she wanted and went for it.

In the article “Sex Offender Registries (SOR’s): TIME-FOR-A-CHANGE”, the topic of changing the se offender registries was discussed and elaborated upon. It began by giving a summary of the history of the sex offender registries. There was a case where a young child was murdered by a sex offender that no one knew lived in the area. To fix this problem, every person convicted of a sex crime had to register as a sex offender. The author of this article, Phil Locke, explained the effects of the sex offender registry on those convicted of sex crimes. Not only are the years served in prison for the crime uncommonly longer than for those who have committed murder, but the offender is then required to go to “treatment” programs and meetings after serving

Sex crimes are a major problem in the United States, especially in certain states such as California. Legislators have passed numerous laws to try to reduce the number of victims. One of the measurements taken to reduce recidivism is the sex offender registry, which is a system designed to keep track of those convicted of a sex offense. There are websites now available that contain the sex offenders’ name, address, and photograph. The registries’ main purpose is to prevent future sex crimes and to reduce recidivism. The sex registry was set up with good intentions; however over the years more and more people are on the list without fitting the definition of a sex offender, making the registry unfair and ineffective.

In my opinion, sex offenses do receive special attention in the criminal justice system. I believe this because sexual offenses is a very different crime that impacts victim the most. Since it impacts the victim the most, it receives this special attention in the criminal justice system.

The purpose of this paper was to describe the multiple different sex offender typologies. There are four main rapist typologies: power reassurance, power assertive, anger retaliatory, and anger excitation. Child molesters fall under either a situational child molester or preferential child molester. Another sex offender is a juvenile sex offender. This paper will also identify the method of operation (M.O.) and provide a basic profile for each type of rapist.

December 2009, Sarah Foxwell 11 year-old little girl taken from her home and there was no signs of forced entry. The key suspect in the case was Thomas J. Leggs Jr, 30 years old who was for boyfriend of the child’s aunt (who was her guardian) (Martinez, 2008). The body of Foxwell was found burned in a wooded area in Salisbury MD. The autopsy revealed that the child had many cause of death which was related to homicide (WBOC, 2011). In Leggs truck they found the child missing toothbrush. As the case progress, Leggs admitted to the death of Foxwell and was found to be a registered sex offender for Maryland and Delaware. Leggs is currently sentence to life without parole (WBOC, 2011). The purpose of this paper is to examine the civil commitment laws for sex offenders in the state of Maryland.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), from December 2013 to December 2014, the amount of recorded sexual offences has risen by 32 percent to 80,262 for England and Wales (ONS, 2015:13). The most serious cases of sex offending will result in a custodial sentence. From 2005 to 2011 the proportion of offenders who received a custodial sentence for committing sexual offences is between 55 and 59 percent (ibid, 41). Custody is an immediate way of protecting the public from the future risks posed by a serious sexual offender. However, at some point of the offender’s custodial sentence, it is likely that they will be granted their right to parole; and eventually will be released into the community. Furthermore, the less serious sexual offenders who receive suspended sentences, community sentences, or fines are also dealt with in the community and therefore put the public at immediate risk of harm. Although the risks can never be fully eliminated, it is extremely important that the amount of risk imposed on society is kept to a minimum (Harrison, 2011:78). This essay will focus on the Violent and Sex Offenders Register (ViSOR) and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), and evaluate their effectiveness on minimising the risk of harm to the public.

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.

The Sex Offender Register is the common appearance for the records held by the police rising from the statutory requirement that sex offenders should notify the police of their address details and change of conditions. The register is providing greater knowledge of the whereabouts of such offenders in the interests of public protection (Stone, 2008). The Sex Offenders Act of 1997 provides that offenders convicted of cautioned, warned or reprimanded for a relevant offence are subject to notification requirements commonly known as registration requirements in respect of specified personal details, recorded and retained by the police.

Earlier this month the State Department stated that registered sex offenders are now required to carry passports that identify them as child sex offenders. The State Department, responsible for distributing passports, will revoke the passports of registered child sex offenders and they will need to apply for new passports that identify them as an offender. If a registered child sex offender is for the first time applying for a passport, then that individual will be given one with an identifier. The identifier will be printed on the interior of the passport notifying other countries of the individual’s offense. However, the State Department will have to obtain the list of registered child sex offenders from the Department of Homeland Security, who is responsible of identifying sex offenders, to notify those who will be affected. Those affected by the change should not encounter difficulties leaving the United States. Nonetheless, registered child sex offenders could be denied entry into other countries due in part to the laws that are in place. The changes are a response to the International

As many would imagine, juveniles are often hesitant to fully admit the extent of their abuse or the actual number of victims they have created. Juvenile sex offenders who are in denial about their offenses do not typically engage in and comply with treatment (Hunter & Figueredo, 2000; Maletzky, 1991). The first step of treatment is to get the offenders to take full accountability for the actions that brought them to treatment in the first place. This process can take several months. In order to move on in most treatment programs the juveniles must take and successfully pass a full sex history polygraph. Failure to do so can result in removal from program and placement in a higher level of care and noncompliance with a court order.

Prisoners who have been convicted of a sexual offence make up approximately 20% of prison population in New Zealand (Nadesu, 2011). In 2005, there were 703 in total apprehensions of sexual assaults committed against children 16 years and under in New Zealand. Since then there has been a rise with total of 1029 apprehensions recorded in 2014 (New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse, 2015), thus may be a reason as to why there has been such interest around child sexual offenders in criminology. Furthermore, sexual offending tends to be seen as an attribute in an individual that is unchangeable, with this there is potential that some may see child sex offenders in a more unfavourable light when being compared to a murder. Considering the statement above, it is also believed that sexual offenders are more likely to re-offend than other type of offenders because this type of violence is abnormal and untreatable. However, this is not the case, sexually offenders are less likely to re-offend then many other types of offenders (Thakker & Gannon, 2010). This essay will be based on understanding aspects around the attitudes, treatment, and rehabilitation of male child sexual offenders, based around New Zealand specific data about how communities and the Criminal Justice System treat male child sexual offenders. Therefore, with the help of literature and statistics, the main focus points of this essay will be around the underlying attitudes and statistical data surrounding child sex