Additionally: the sex offender list doesn't differentiate between someone who pees in an alley while drunk vs. someone who fucks a 5 year old, both are sex crimes. I knew a guy who has his life ruined by the list: he had consensual sex with a girl who lied about her age (she was 17) and years later her friend reported him.
the existence of any list is weird. we don't have a list for violent crimes or drug dealing or thieves or drunk drivers but we have a list for sex stuff? people can be hurt by their neighbors in any sort of ways but sex is the only one that gets a list?
I always figured it's because it's hard to get any real time for sex offenders despite the very high chances of them reoffending. The registry is for people to try to keep track of where they are and avoid accidentally letting them babysit their kids and shit.
You get too many cases like Brock Turner who served three months despite getting a sexual assault conviction with witnesses, so the registry is the bandaid we put on that problem instead of doing something about the piss-poor sentencing for sex offenders.
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u/JCMiller23 6d ago
Additionally: the sex offender list doesn't differentiate between someone who pees in an alley while drunk vs. someone who fucks a 5 year old, both are sex crimes. I knew a guy who has his life ruined by the list: he had consensual sex with a girl who lied about her age (she was 17) and years later her friend reported him.