Naming Sex Offenders

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Naming Sex Offenders More and more controversy arises every year over whether to make sex offenders names public. The question lurks in peoples’ minds are sex offenders really and truly rehabilitated or are they just simply claiming to be reformed? The answer to that question is that 89 percent of sex offenders repeat their offense after completing rehabilitation or being chemically castrated. Every state has a community notification system in place to alert the community of sex offender registrations. According to Appelbaum, “Most identified sex offenders reside in the community, having completed their prison terms or having been placed directly on probation without incarceration”. There are jurisdictions in the United States that…show more content…
A 20 year-old man from Maine used the online sex offender registry to locate and kill two registered sex offenders in May 2006. According to Bain, “In Washington State a man shot and killed two level three sex offenders”. Sex offenders are classified in different levels which are varying degrees of their sexual pervasive nature. A level three offender named Xavier Morris told Newsday that he was forced to move twice since he was released from prison. The main concern should be to protect children and women from sex offenders, not protecting sex offender names. However, this is not the case since the main concern for sex offenders is their names being made public on a community notification system. Assignment * Write a persuasive paper rough draft. This assignment is not expected to be a final draft; however, you want to make sure to follow the organization described in the lecture. This assignment supports TCOs 1, 2, and 5. Successful assignments will: 1. follow Week 4 outline (with instructor suggestions); 2. present and support a clear thesis, appropriate to the essay's…show more content…
While the details of the Maine killings are sketchy, the names and addresses of the slain men—Joseph Gray and William Elliott—were readily available to anyone who wanted to connect to Maine’s Internet registry. Yesterday, the two men’s personal details were still posted on the website, along with those of hundreds of other offenders. That is common practice in the United States, where all states are required to register sex offenders, and many allow access to information that includes names, criminal record details and sometimes individual street addresses. The U.S. Department of Justice website even provides search tools to help the public glean information from individual state databases. It’s all designed to protect people from dangerous offenders, U.S. officials
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