The Profiling Of Sex Offenders

A sex offender is anyone who is convicted of a sex crime. The crimes that qualify as sex crimes vary by state, but most states include rape (forced and statutory), sexual assault or battery, child molestation or any sexual conduct with a minor, production or possession of child pornography, and attempts to commit any of these crimes. The history of sex offenders has been active since the 1800’s according to author Philip Jenkins. Jerkins explains that in the Middle Ages, children were constantly coming up missing and he also explains that sex crime laws have existed as far back as biblical times with a number of penalties ranging from fines to death for various sexual acts considered deviant at one time or another in society. (Jenkins, 1998)

Sex offenders are described as a person who commits a crime involving a sexual act. They are people convicted for sexual crime in a criminal court. Sex offenders make a high percentage of the offender population and are considered special circumstance offenders. Sex offenders typically use sex as a coping mechanism. Juvenile sex offenders are those age from adolescences to an adult, who committed a sexual act without consent both physically and verbally.

About 43.9% of sex offenders identified both male and female perpetrators as opposed to 9.6% of nonsexual offenders. These individuals were exposed to more severe forms of victimization with a longer duration. Sex offenders endured an average of 5.6 years of abuse while nonsexual offenders experienced 3.9 years. Through the use of logistic regression analyses, Burton, Miller, and Shill (2002) concluded that method of operation and gender of abuser accurately predicts whether an individual will sexually offend. The analysis correctly predicted and placed 78.3% of the sex-offending males into their correct groups.

Summary of Article or Findings: The key problem the authors raise is if there is a stigma directed at registered sex offenders. The research focuses on certain consequences that register sex offenders deal with because of their status. The data gather in the research shows key problems in being a registered sex offender. The evidence that shows the key problem of being a registered sex offender is actual insight from actual registered sex offenders. The key finding of the research is there are main consequences that registered sex offender’s deal with because of being a registered sex offender. The sex offender’s deal with family and intimate relationship issues, loss of employment, denied promotions at work, lack of housing, different types of harassment. The key concept which leads to the conclusion is that there is a stigma directed at registered sex offenders. Since the registered sex offenders have consequences because of their status as a registered sex offender it gives the look that no matter what, they will never fulfill their debt to society. The conclusion the author’s made is that there are problems with registered sex offenders in locations that have need been studied and those that have been studied. The consequences the registered sex offenders receive could cause further problems such as reoffending and that the stigma regarding sex offenders is still active.

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.

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 first piece of legislation to advocate for the development of state-maintained registries of convicted sexual offenders. The legislation has been amended numerous times since then; in its present state, the law requires all states to maintain a registry, the mandatory registration of convicted sex offenders after release, community notification laws in place, and public access to the registry (Burchfield and Mingus, 2012; Lees and Tewksbury, 2006; Petrunik, Murphy, and Fedoroff, 2008; Scholle, 2000; Tewksbury and Lees, 2006; Wagner, 2011).

The youngest person that 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 to register as offenders.

Sex offenders are people who have been charged and convicted of or pled guilty of a sex crime. Sexual offenders are not all the same, rather each case in different and unique. A sex offender's crime can range from gaining access to underage pornographic material to rape and even just kidnapping a child. Nonetheless the acts committed by sex offenders are morally wrong and continues to occur in the United States.

In our current society, gender patterns play an important role in our vision of male sex offenders, similarly as much as they do to female sex offenders. The stigma of a female sex offender usually revolves around someone in a nurturing position such as teacher who has an inappropriate relationship with a minor. These women are said seduce younger victims with their looks. Similar to men, women can also be sex offenders, despite the fact that a much smaller number of women are sexual offenders. It is not conclusive exactly how many women execute sexual crimes or how many victims exist. The stereotype of the female sex offender as an attractive nurturer who forms a romantic relationship with a minor is ambiguous, despite its portrayal in the

Stories of sex offenders have been increasingly a focus of attention by the criminal justice system over the past years. By legal definition, a sex offender “is a person who is convicted of a sexual offense (Sex Offender Law & Legal Definition),” an act which is prohibited by the jurisdiction. What constitutes as a sex offense or normal/abnormal sexual behavior varies over time and place, meaning that it also varies by legal jurisdiction and culture. In the United States of America, for example, a person can be convicted of wide range of sexual behavior that includes prostitution, incest, sex with a minor, rape, and other sex offenses (Sex Offender Law & Legal Definition). As the nature of sex crimes have long held the

Chapter 9, Sex Offender Registration, Notification, and Civil Commitment Statutes in the book Current Legal Issues in Criminal Justice (2nd ed.) written by Craig Hemmens has a section that pertains to sex offender registration and notification laws that have been enacted by legislation. There were a couple topics that stood out as being relevant to me. It is stated that the sex offender registration is to be used for notifying law enforcement of the residence location of convicted sex offenders within their jurisdiction (Hemmens, 2015). It also later states that citizens of the community are protected from sexual victimization by the means of notification of these registered sex offenders (Hemmens, 2015).

A person who committed a crime involving a sexual act is known as a sex offender. These types of offenders have a program that is specifically directed towards the acts they have committed and is known as sex offender treatment. Various sexual behaviors are criminalized today. These acts include sexual contact, no contact, and act related to the possession or distribution of child pornography. The name of these offenses, definition of crimes and the class of these crimes vary by states. There are many things a sex offender has to go through if they have been convicted as a sexual offender. They must register under Megan’s Law, which will provide their name, where they work, type of car, tattoos, and so forth. Each state will assess their

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

Why are there typologies specific to female sex offenders? Because they women offenders do not withdraw a theoretical structure for the etiology of sexual offending unlike male offenders. The three types are co-offender, the teacher lover and the heterosexual nurturer. Most but if not all sex offenders are in a heterogeneous group and, therefore, will possibly overlap into different

The purpose of the research paper is to discuss the types of punishments and treatments sexual offenders should receive even though there might not be a cure for it.