We need to get a petition signed to have sex offenders locked up for good. i am talking about teenage boys/girls and adults who harm young children. This is sick if. Can you tell me how I would get something like this started?
2006-09-04 10:45:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
good question i agree
2006-09-04 14:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by Dan B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I for one agree with many of the comments posted. You cannot bunch up the catagory 'sex offenders' because it is too broad. In any case, I am against the imprisionment of any adult that has a sexual relationship with a seventeen year old or any other 'mentally' mature person. We put a marker on the age 18 for almost everything, but who is to know when someone is mature enough to make a desicion such as sex. First of all most teens these days have sex at a much earlier age than 18. Why is it any different for a 16 boy and girl to have sex than a 22 and 16 year old to have sex? If anything the 22 year old is more mature and more about to deal with relationships and if a child were to be born the 22 year old would have responsibility for it. I dated a 16 year old when I was 18 and I feel it would be absurd for me to go to prision for having sex with him.
The trauma experienced by a 15 year old boy for having sex with a grow women of say 23 is minor at best. I cant imagine a boy of 15 crying to his friends about what happened, or huddling up in the corner of his room having nightmares about having sex with his teacher. Our society has its mores, laws, and norms, but sometimes there is a much due change in need.
2006-09-04 11:35:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can start by not clumping all "sex offenders" together in one group.
An adult that preys on children is a menace. An 18 year old boy that has consentual sex with a 17 year old gorl is not.
2006-09-04 10:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact this is adult men who empower them selves up interior the ranks of fortress madness. they could additionally in no way have been abused with the help of girls on an identical time as they have been youthful. in actuality generational cultural modus operandi and nepotism shows that almost all of them won't have been concern to abuse with the help of girls. the rationalization in the back of this is because of the fact usually a competent start up in existence is the catalyst for the place they're right this moment.
2016-12-18 04:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the category of "sex offenders" is ridiculously broad, to the point of almost being meaningless.
The category includes everyone from the child-molester rapist you talk about, all the way to the 18-year-old who unknowingly slept with a 15-year-old after she lied about her age and showed him fake ID.
The punishment needs to fit the crime. And too many of the crimes are badly written to be too broad.
2006-09-04 10:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't feel like footing their cable bill. But thanks for offering. Your goal is to stop sex offenders. We've been locking up criminals for ages. Has that stopped crime? No. Some murderers go in for life. Has this stopped homicides? No.
2006-09-04 10:56:49 · answer #6 · answered by fairykarma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you ever heard of someone being convicted for something they didnt do? i know you've seen the stories on the news or in the newspaper. can you imagine locking up someone for life for a crime they didn't commit?
2006-09-04 14:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOME STATES HAVE CIVIL COMITTMENT
But be carefull. IF and 18 yo has sex with his 16 y/o girlfriend he can be convicted in some places, if if they later marry. Do you want that?
2006-09-04 11:18:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the point of prison is rehabilitation as well as punishment - people do have the capacity to change and should be given a second chance.
2006-09-04 11:36:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats a question that a co-worker and i have discussed, glad to know someone else is concerned abot it too. we feel that it is a waste of taxpayers $ to house them at all if the crime is severe enough than they should be done away with.
2006-09-04 10:49:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋