When a convicted sex offender is released from prison it creates fear in the community. Nobody wants a convicted sex criminal in their neighborhood. At the same time, throwing a sexual offender to live on the streets is not a solution. Many sexual predators, like the men from the article Perverted Justice at Details.com, have no other options but to live in the streets and under bridges, and worse moving them out of town where their history is unknown. Instead these offenders should have group housing for them to go after prison, not entirely government and tax funded, but rather they pay for their own shelter, food and living. Along with this housing they should have a mandatory completion of the sexual offender’s treatment program, strict curfews, and have to register as a convicted sex offender under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.
While many agree there is no cure for a sexual predator, or the only one is death, it is inevitable that they will eventually be reintegrated into the rest of society. Prevention of recidivism is crucial and attention to psychiatric therapy counseling in combination with a drug treatment should be considered by the politicians and the law makers. While still in the early stages of being used for mainstream treatment, the drug depo-provera is, in some cases, administered to repeat sex offenders to lower the sex drive and deter the physical urges. This is known as chemical castration and some would argue that the drug is cruel and harmful to men. The American Civil Liberties Union claim that chemical castration violates the rights of an offender, but these men have also lost most of their rights by committing the most heinous of acts. Keith Robinson, from Oklahoma,was physically castrated for molesting his five year old niece said ”Things I found stimulating, don’t cross my mind anymore”.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was implemented in to legislation on July 26, 2006. This act establishes a national sex offender registration database system. Under this act an offender must register all personal information, and be classified under a 3 tier system depending on the offense. A person registered under tier 3 will have to be a registered sex offender for life and have to check in with authorities every 90 days(3months), an offender on tier 2 has a 25 year mandatory registration with check-in every 180 days (6 months) and a tier 1 offender has to register for 15 years with check-in once a year. Failing to register comes with a stiff punishment of a fine and/or prison term.
Everyone deserves the right to housing, and I don’t find a solution in having convicted sex offenders drifting the streets. These possible solutions may seem cruel and intrusive of the rights of a sex offender, but these men are still alive. They have permenantly affected their victims, and for that, they get to live in discomfort for it. But at least they would have each other and home…
Crystal Black
Citations:
Adam Walsh Act." America's Most Wanted. http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=1206 Date and author are unclear August 2, 2008
MacAdam, Harry. "Chemical Castration." The Sun. 26 June 2006. 2 Aug. 2008 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article53511.ece.
Daly, Ian. "Perverted Justice." Details.com. 7 July 2008. 2 Aug. 2008
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2 comments:
The title is weird/ convoluted...
Where is the attention getter in the intro?
You are writing this very much aware that it is a paper as opposed to you making a comment or statement about the world in which we live. Therefore, it comes across as if you are bored or too caught up in the idea that this is a paper for a class.
Your wording is imprecise throughout. For example, you write that "While many agree there is no cure for a sexual predator, or the only one is death, it is inevitable that they will eventually be reintegrated into the rest of society." That makes it sound like the audience is sex offenders who are being reintroduced into society.
The organization doesn't pull the reader through the argument.
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