The respected rights group, Human Rights Watch, released this week a 146 page report two years in the making. Although there are numerous recommendations, the main ones are:
1. take the registries off the internet and only allow law enforcement or those who "need to know" access to information about high risk individuals
2. ban all housing restrictions
3. allow ex offenders reviews to prove they pose little or no risk to society
Much of the report detailed what is already public record such as that most (90% for children and 75% for women) sexual assaults are done by acquaintances,the vigilantism and harassment of ex offenders and families is common, and that there is little scientific or statistical evidence that the punitive measures by the national and state governments actually work to prevent sexual abuse.
Comments anyone? (If you are going to offer some ignorant, nilhistic remark, save it. We've all heard it before and it's old.)
2007-09-13 16:09:13 · 4 answers · asked by Shelley 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I was debating pulling the question because I was concerned that the responders so far are exactly what I feared: ignorant, retributive and/or hate filled.
Not one asked for a link to the report to actually read what this group says. One even questions the group's reputation itself. Probably never heard of it, therefore how could it be respected?
YA probably isn't the place to ask for eloquent, thoughtful answers to seriously posed questions.
2007-09-14 01:28:00 · update #1
I'm sorry but i believe it is my right to know if my next door neighbor has ever hurt or raped women or children.
2007-09-13 16:21:43 · answer #1 · answered by TJ815 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Human rights? I don't count rapists and pedophiles as human. The only reservation I have about sex offender laws is when there's a chance that the woman had a case of buyers remorse and cried "Rape" to avoid getting a "reputation" and the 17 year old boy arrested for having consensual sex with his 15 year old girlfriend.
Other than those types of exceptions sex offenders are not human beings and therefore not entitled to human rights, human rights watch needs to find someone else to ***** about.
2007-09-13 17:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by Graham S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Respected" by whom? Apparently the only people rights they are interested in are terrorists, rapists, and pedophiles.
Take care of the poor women living in mysoginystic Islamic countries suffering from genital mutilation and being treated like slaves before you come a knockin on the U.S. door. Or the people being beheaded and stoned to death in Saudi Arabia.
I hope my comments were found by you to be ignorant and nihilistic. And you will be hearing it much more often!
2007-09-13 16:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by thealligator414 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a sex offender is moving into my area, its not his rights I am worried about. Its my children's.
2007-09-13 16:16:42 · answer #4 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋