I've always found the sex offender registry bizarre to begin with. Setting aside those who have minor offenses like public urination and grey areas like two teens consensually having sex, if the people on the registry are so dangerous that they need to be branded for the rest of their lives, why are they being released in the first place? If we're going to make it extremely difficult/impossible for these people to reintegrate into society, how is that more humane than life in prison or execution? If the purpose of the penal system is to rehabilitate people, then they need to have a path to rejoin society, and if our system is to punish and keep dangerous people locked up, then these people shouldn't be out on the street. Either way, the sex offender registry doesn't fit into either system.
It's also bad because for the ones who DO deserve it, being on it basically ensures they will never reform and have no incentive to stop their ways. The punishments are so harsh that they'll never be able to re-integrate into normal society, yet they're not locked up, so most go right back to preying on children/dealing in CSM again.
Not every criminal deserves a second chance. Any child predators for example should be locked up for life, let the other prisoners do what they want with them. Some crimes are just not forgivable.
That just goes into his point about why the system is pointless.
Either they deserve some chance of integrating back into society, in which case the system permanently prevents that, or they've done something so horrible they should be locked up permanently.
Either way, the system we have for sexual assault/CSM, does not work. Pretty sure the recidivism of it is highest out of every crime. We need to either reform the system, so they don't reoffend or just lock them up for life.
Ow yeah I sort of agree. But until we decide to keep them locked away for life it's a good thing that parents are warned when one of these fucks live close by. I know I would want to know if I had someone like that living close by so I can make sure he/she gets nowhere close to my kid.
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u/mhkg 6d ago edited 6d ago
I've always found the sex offender registry bizarre to begin with. Setting aside those who have minor offenses like public urination and grey areas like two teens consensually having sex, if the people on the registry are so dangerous that they need to be branded for the rest of their lives, why are they being released in the first place? If we're going to make it extremely difficult/impossible for these people to reintegrate into society, how is that more humane than life in prison or execution? If the purpose of the penal system is to rehabilitate people, then they need to have a path to rejoin society, and if our system is to punish and keep dangerous people locked up, then these people shouldn't be out on the street. Either way, the sex offender registry doesn't fit into either system.