Should Sex Offenders Be Treated?

For over centuries, the only form of punishment and discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way of life than what us “normal” humans are accustomed to living in our society. Once that inmate takes their first step inside their new society, their whole mindset on how to live and communicate changes. The inmate’s psychological beliefs about what is right and wrong are in questioned as well as everything else they learned in the outside world. In a way, prison is a never ending mind game you are playing against yourself with no chance of wining. Other than the mental aspect of prison, family plays a very important role in an inmate’s sentence. Family can be the “make it or break it” deal for a lot of inmates. It is often said that “when a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole family serves the sentence.” Well, for many inmates that is the exact case. While that prisoner serves their time behind bars, their family is on the outside waiting in anticipation for their loved ones to be released. In a way, the families

Finally, publically listing convicted sex offender’s name and other information can cause unnecessary trauma. Many citizens employ the sex offender registry list to obtain the address of an offender or his or her property. There have been many cases of

Whenever you imagine prison, you think up ideas and violent images that you have seen in the movies or on TV.   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are stereotypical of everyday life in prison.   Perhaps it could be a combination of your upbringing, horrific ideas about the punishment which our nation inflicts on those who violate its’ more serious laws that keeps people frightened just enough to lead a law-abiding life. Despite it’s success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the American prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society, it is also extremely expensive and wastes our precious tax dollars.

When we hear the phrase, sex offender, we normally feel repulsed. We think of dirty old creepy men. I for one used to do this, I won’t lie. This is because people like to rush to judgment. But my opinions changed when I came to the realization that it’s not just creepy old men who are sex offenders. I want to talk about them, but not those who are serial rapists or child molesters; they don’t deserve to be talked about. I’m talking about people who are convicted, whether it’s falsely, or unjustly, and have to wear a stamp on their forehead for the rest of their lives saying they are a sex offender.

Mass incarceration is the greatest moral and racial injustice of our time. There are 2.2 million people that are imprisoned. 39% of prisoners should not be in prison. People who commit crimes should not go to prison, unless such crime is severe and harsher punishment is needed to be placed. "As a society, we have chosen to prioritize the public safety of our citizens over programs designed to enhance the personal growth of inmates."- Quarts - Allison Schrager The only rational purpose for a prison is to restrain those who are violent, while we help them to change their behavior and return to the community. Prison is meant to give offenders punishment for their actions but to also help them understand why their actions isn’t righteous. Rehabilitation programs in prison are the alternative to a lengthy sentence. It helps build the character and skills so that prisoners can be able to function as citizens in society. Unfortunately, that is not what’s happening in prison as of today. The system is very broken and certain crimes that have been committed should not result to incarceration because there are other alternatives that best suit the consequences of the crime.

By having to register as a sex offender, these people are automatically labeled upon entering a community. No one wants a sex offender living in their neighborhood where children live and play. It’s an uneasy feeling. Yes, they may have paid the debt to society by going to jail/prison, but the risk of them reoffending is not worth the risk of anyone’s child. No one wants to bet the safety of their children. If a sex offender does find a place to call home, he still has a lot of hurdles to jump through before being able to live a subpar life. By reentering society and being

Everyday more and more sexual assaults are occurring with more people going to jail each day. It is hard to say if they all fell remorse or not but for the ones that do, can they be rehabilitated back into society. Most of our instincts at this time say no. There have been a few additional study’s saying that younger children may be able to be cured if they are treated correctly and given the proper right to a jury trial. It is said that if the child hears his mistakes he may be able to understand and correct them without being locked up for a life time. Some criminal defense attorneys state that they don’t want their client to have a jury trial do to the fact that they could self-incriminate themselves and get a worse sentence. However in the journal of criminal law (Turoff) there is a quote from the constitution. “The trail of all crimes except in the cases of impeachment. Shall be by jury” (US Constitution Amendment VI). It is pretty clear what our founding fathers wished to have done.

In a criminal point of view individuals, they fine it ver difficult and tend to struggle with adapting to the norms of life after being locked in a cell for long period of time. Adjusting to this includes getting a jobs, living freely (without probation) , and many other key points of survival.

The United State’s prison system was initially designed to punish and rehabilitate individuals whom were convicted of a felony or other serious offense. Inmates are sentenced for a certain amount of time, or the entirety of their life based on how serious of a crime that person has committed. The Idea of imprisoning a person as a form of punishment dates back to medieval times however, it wasn’t until right before the American Revolution humane prisons started appearing in this country. Today, prisons are more populated than they have ever been and are functioning not only as a place to reform people’s morals, but also as a highly profitable investment for the wealthy to exploit. The Prison system is so devoted to making

The number of registered sex offenders have increasingly grew over the years. Every day you see a man or women added to the registry for crimes against women and mostly children. The sex offender registries biggest and main focus is to keep the people in the community in each city and state informed and protected. ”Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society.” Baker, J, Brannon, Y, N., Fortney. , Levenson, J.S. (“Public Perceptions about Sex Offenders and Community Protection”). The sex offender registry is based solely on protecting the public from being a victim

This has led to a misuse of sex offender registries to the detriment to the children they

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.

Being known as a sex offender is horrible people look at others differently, people see the bad and want harm done to each and every one. Most of them mean well, not everyone is bad some try and better their

Sex offenders are one of the most reviled criminals by the public (Hickey, 2006). Their actions may cause extensive harm and trauma to many innocent victims as well as victims’ families and offenders’ families (Hickey, 2006). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it is estimated that 25 to 33% of adult women and approximately10% of adult men have been sexually abused as children (Hickey, 2006). Similar to substance abuse offenders, sexual abuse offenders are inclined to deny their offensive actions, and additionally, deny the overall seriousness (Hanser and Mire, 2011). Denial is identified as a psychological defense process to protect against unpleasant feelings of anxiety. In addition, denial may also be a normal,

When the average person thinks of jails and prisons, they typically think of horrible criminals being locked up in order to protect the rest of society. They think justice has been served, and those who did the crime are now doing the time. But what goes on inside a prison, and inside the minds of the inmates? What about after those offenders have served their time, and are now being released back into the general public? People don’t really think about how prison affects a person’s mentality, or how incarceration impacts both relationships the inmate currently has, or ones that will develop in the future. Although it isn’t something most people think of first, incarceration is an experience that can have a negative psychological impact on a person for quite some time.