Somewhat unrelated but there was a big expose on how the registered sex offender database is not great in a lot of ways. I dunno if I can find the article but there was an example of a woman put on it for “sodomy” (Texas law) because she gave her 15 year old bf a blowjob at school when she was 16.
The registry is trash by any measure. Even if you somehow removed all of the people that shouldn't be on it, it's still punishing someone permanently for a crime instead of rehabilitating them for it.
It's also pretty useless because most people who commit child sex offences are usually not pedophiles (prior to the offending anyway), which is also why they have some of the lowest recidivism rates.
I would refer you to the chapter in this report - https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-08/Recidivism_of_Sex_Offenders_Research_Paper.doc
The vast majority of sex offenders are never accused, charged, prosecuted and convicted and are thus never subject to those sorts of controls
Also doesn't help that the laws using that registry are like "better keep the sickos away from any closed, empty park at night, but they're cool to be in a park near kids during the day"
Somewhat unrelated but there was a big expose on how the registered sex offender database is not great in a lot of ways. I dunno if I can find the article but there was an example of a woman put on it for “sodomy” (Texas law) because she gave her 15 year old bf a blowjob at school when she was 16.
The registry is trash by any measure. Even if you somehow removed all of the people that shouldn't be on it, it's still punishing someone permanently for a crime instead of rehabilitating them for it.
It's also pretty useless because most people who commit child sex offences are usually not pedophiles (prior to the offending anyway), which is also why they have some of the lowest recidivism rates.
Eh, from what I’ve read at least some of this is due to the fact the state keeps such close tabs on sexual offenders, unlike with other crimes.
If we hawked shoplifters as much as we did molesters they would likely also have a low recidivism rate.
I would refer you to the chapter in this report - https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-08/Recidivism_of_Sex_Offenders_Research_Paper.doc
The vast majority of sex offenders are never accused, charged, prosecuted and convicted and are thus never subject to those sorts of controls
Okay but then how do we know what their rate of “recidivism” is if they’re never punished in the first place?
Also doesn't help that the laws using that registry are like "better keep the sickos away from any closed, empty park at night, but they're cool to be in a park near kids during the day"
i think in some places you can get on it for being caught pissing against a tree at night or stuff like that
true, true
anyway we reddit now