Do you support Sex offenders Registry?

[Martymark]

I feel like it's applied too broadly.
18yr old with a 16yr old?
Drunk guy peeing at a school?
Warn the neighbors a monster lives nearby!

[Usernameforforums]

16 only if the kid is 12 or less and depending on if it was consensual. Non consensual sexual for any reason or age yes.

I had a problem with a mother in high school when I was 17 and she was 15. We never did anything but she kept tryin to say date/statutory rape and what not. I was just all like it was your girl who came on to me dude. Anyways we only lasted like 6months only goin so far as a kiss.

[Techno-Druid]

I feel like this question is bit too complicated to have a simple yes or no answer. I support a sex offender registry, but I do not necessarily agree with having it available to the general public outside of request.

[Alvito]

Mate, as a parent, I've heard stories of men being innocently put on the sex offenders registry for changing a diaper.

Even if you are innocent, you have a high chance of being registered because 'there was a chance you could be guilty'.

Somebody is spinning some bull.shit to try and explain why they are a registered sex offender if you are being told that.

[luciano]

Read the rest of the thread and come back when you realize how dumb this comment was. It should take you about 45 seconds.

Don't need to. The entire topic is dumb. This whole conversation is pointless. Don't rape people. Everyone (except the Republicans) gets this.

[Deletedaccount1]

Do you support Sex offenders Registry? Yes

What’s the youngest a person should qualify to be registered? 16

Should the registry be for life or should there be a set time? Yep

Do you feel some sexually based crimes should include the the death penalty if convicted? Nope

Yes, any age, Yes, Yes if the crime is extreme enough and there is incontrovertible evidence.

[Topornic]

I don't really care as long as looking at boobs and cat calling and exhibition etc. are not considered such sex offense. Rape, pedophilia, physical molesting - this is what a sexual offense is, not some delusions of a fat twat.

[Xar226]

No. I'm not a fan of this kind of extrajudicial punishment.

Second, even if I were, the rates of recidivism among sex offenders is not nearly as high as people believe it is, nor is it particularly high compared to other crimes. We just don't like this particular category of crime, so we don't care whether or not the policy makes sense.

And third, even if none of that was true, I believe the absolute best way to push people into committing more crimes is by making their lives after prison especially bad. Prison should do everything possible to prepare inmates to lead respectable lives once they are released, and society should strive to make that easier, not harder. When you convince people they have nothing to lose, well, they have nothing to lose.

[Shadowferal]

Megan's Law
Megan's Law requires persons convicted of sex crimes against children to notify local law enforcement of any change of address or employment after release from custody (prison or psychiatric facility). The notification requirement may be imposed for a fixed period of time—usually at least ten years—or permanently. Some states may legislate registration for all sex crimes, even if no minors were involved. It is a felony in most jurisdictions to fail to register or fail to update information.

Together, Jacob Wetterling Act and Megan's Law provide two major information services: sex offender registry for law enforcement, and community notification for the public. The details of what is provided as part of sex offender registration and how community notification is handled vary from state to state, and in some states the required registration information and community notification protocols have changed many times since Megan's Law was passed.

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I can't say no. If someone likes children in the bad way, then if they hadn't been given the death penalty, or committed suicide, then the public should know where such people are.

[Trywin Hard]

Wish we would have that here.

[Jonnusthegreat]

It's not hard to avoid being placed on the sex offender registry. Simply...don't ****ing rape people!

You must be new.

[NM 156]

Not one available to the public. Letting law enforcement know makes sense though.

[Najnaj]

Kind of irrelevant today when you can simply google people and find out a hell of a lot more than that ....

[Kanegasi]

The only problem I have with the sex offender registry is the bullshit entries. A minor in possession of their own nude photos should be exempt, except for distribution, which is a moral gray area I don't want to get into. A drunk peeing in public should be exempt. Those are not sex offenders. Sex offenders are people who knowingly perform sexual acts towards those who do not have consent. Sexual acts can range from flashing with intent (think creepy guy in a trenchcoat, not a sports field streaker) to violent penetration. Child pornography is illegal, of course, but common sense should dictate that the minor simply gets a stern talking from the parent. Peeing is not sexual in a vacuum, therefore the person that'll get a drunk in public fine should only have to worry about the fine and some cops laughing at them.

Speaking of common sense, nothing is ever concrete. I will admit that I have a urine fetish. A drunk peeing is not a sexual offense, but if I decided to hang out on a balcony above a party and waited patiently for someone to show up below me... I would definitely belong on the registry.

[Rustedsaint]

Do you support Sex offenders Registry? Yes

What’s the youngest a person should qualify to be registered? 16

Should the registry be for life or should there be a set time? Yep

Do you feel some sexually based crimes should include the the death penalty if convicted? Nope

Yes, depends on victims age,for life if it’s a major crime, only for beyond help serial rapist who attack children

[Thage]

Do you support Sex offenders Registry? Yes.

What’s the youngest a person should qualify to be registered? 16

Should the registry be for life or should there be a set time? Depends. If they can pass a psychiatric screening and are deemed a non-threat, 10 years to ensure no relapses. After 10 years, another screening is given. If they pass, they can be removed from the registry. If they fail, they are left on the registry for another 5 before the next screening.

Do you feel some sexually based crimes should include the death penalty if convicted? Only in the most extreme cases, as with any death penalty case, where a documented history exists, the crime in question was especially heinous (for example, relations with an infant or a necrophiliac who repeatedly offends), and psychiatric screenings suggest no effort is made on the offender's behalf to reform.

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The only problem I have with the sex offender registry is the bullshit entries. A minor in possession of their own nude photos should be exempt, except for distribution, which is a moral gray area I don't want to get into. A drunk peeing in public should be exempt. Those are not sex offenders. Sex offenders are people who knowingly perform sexual acts towards those who do not have consent. Sexual acts can range from flashing with intent (think creepy guy in a trenchcoat, not a sports field streaker) to violent penetration. Child pornography is illegal, of course, but common sense should dictate that the minor simply gets a stern talking from the parent. Peeing is not sexual in a vacuum, therefore the person that'll get a drunk in public fine should only have to worry about the fine and some cops laughing at them.

Speaking of common sense, nothing is ever concrete. I will admit that I have a urine fetish. A drunk peeing is not a sexual offense, but if I decided to hang out on a balcony above a party and waited patiently for someone to show up below me... I would definitely belong on the registry.

The 'drunk pissing on an alley wall' issue could be remedied by splitting indecent exposure into two categories: with intent (sexual offense) and without intent (treated as a misdemeanor and fined).

[luciano]

I think the government should investigate all of the pro-rape people in this thread.

There's a reason why y'all are worried about being put on a sex-offender list and it's not because the government is bad. It's because you lot can't stop raping people.

[Biomega]

Do you support Sex offenders Registry? No

What’s the youngest a person should qualify to be registered? N/A

Should the registry be for life or should there be a set time? N/A

Do you feel some sexually based crimes should include the the death penalty if convicted? No

The sex offender registry system is broken in the US. While it means well, there are simply too many problems with it because it reduces everything to one simple denominator. You could have situations like an 18-year old having consensual sex with a 17-year old, but because in some jurisdictions this can be statutory rape, they might end up on the sex offender registry - for who knows how long, possibly forever. And then they are put into the same category as, say, a 40-year old who raped a 4-year old. Do you think people will ask questions and investigate? No. They'll see one label, and apply it to all.

There is a reason we don't allow vigilantes and mob justice. Snap judgments by prejudiced people are not how you want to decide punishment. In addition, the legal system is - at least in principle - founded on the idea of rehabilitation. And while recidivism is an issue, that doesn't mean it's guaranteed; and the idea of just punishment is undermined if it extends far beyond what the law has mandated.

Don't get me wrong - I'm in no way saying sexually motivated crimes aren't a big deal, or shouldn't be harshly punished. On the contrary, I think convictions for rape in particular tend to be too soft in my opinion for many cases (then again false rape accusations should also be punished more strictly). But I believe firmly in putting that into the hands of the law, not of the public. Many crimes warrant long-term support, but it should be primarily rehabilitative, not prolong a served sentence. In the long term, the public is protected more if you lower recidivism rates through social support than if you ostracize people who have already been punished by the law. In fact, there's good evidence that social ostracism and prejudice against ex-convicts is a substantial contributor to recidivism in the first place.

Instead of giving them a scarlet letter, try and help these people back into society.

[Mihalik]

No. Publicly available registries like the sex offender registry essentially guarantee that a person cannot be fully rehabilitated no matter how hard they might try.

The concept is fucking stupid, and is deeply rooted in a society that doesn't focus on rehabilitation or understands why it is important to do so.

A registry should exist, but it should only be available to law enforcement and to the individual who can chose to make it available to others voluntarily. For example if you are trying to get employment in a school or hospital than the employer could require you to hand over your criminal records (or something attesting the absence of a record), and it is up to you whether you do so or not, of course not making your records available would disqualify you from the position.

Now if you are seeking a type of employment where whether you have a record or not is irrelevant than it should be illegal to even request it.

[Shadowferal]

Depending on offense, I have to wonder if such persons should be in any society to begin with.
Certainly nowhere near children.