Week 9 Discussion 1 Public Sex Offender Registry Critique a colleague’s conclusion on the utility of the United States’ national sex offender registry as a
Week 9 Discussion 1 Public Sex Offender Registry Critique a colleague’s conclusion on the utility of the United States’ national sex offender registry as a crime control policy.
Offer additional resources to support or refute your colleague’s position.
Respond to Olukayode as if you’re having a conversation with him. A few sentences and a question.
My Critique of the use of national public sex offender registry as a crime control policy in United State
My take is sex offender registry more harm than good In the 1990s, in response to a number of horrific and highly publicized crimes against children, state and the Federal government created stringent penalities for sex offenders, notably registries where offenders names and addresses are available to the public. But now critics across the country are demanding review and revision of these policies, saying they are based on false assumptions, are a waste of money and do more harm than good.
The registries and related policies are absolutely and fundamentally flawed. They do nothing to support prevention, are not a deterrent and do nothing for people who have survived sexual violence, said Prof Alissa Ackerman of California State University Fullerton, a criminologist and national expert on the treatment of sex offenders. In 2015 the Connecticut Sentencing Commission, at the behest of the General Assembly, began a lengthy examination of Connecticut’s system of assessment, management, treatment, and sentencing of sex offenders.
After a two- year study, the commission recommended changing the state’s public registry from one based on the offense- commit most sex related crimes and you go on the registry- to one based on the risk an offender poses to the community, as determined by a new, eight member Sex Offender Registration Board, Individual found to be low-risk and some adjudged moderate risk would be on a registry only available to law enforcement personnel. The proposal was crystalized into a bill introduced during the immediate past session of the General Assembly, through it failed to make it out of the Judiciary Committee.
In a related matter, the nonprofit Connecticut for One Standard of Justice, which advocates for the civil rights of sex offenders, filed a federal lawsuits on April 4 seeking to overturn a Windsor Locks ordinance which bars persons on the sex offender registry from most public place in town. The town’s child safety zones include a park school library, playground, recreation center, bathing beach, swimming pool or wading pool, gymnasium, sports field, or sports facility either owned or leased by the town. The suit claims banning a group of people from these facilities is unconstitutional.
Then identify another country that employ sex offender registry and then compare is requirement to the dur soidin National Sex Offender Registry
Canada’s National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) came into force on 15 December 2004, with the passing of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (SOIR Act) The public does not have access to the registry. Since 2001, the Province of Ontario operates its own sex offender registry concurrently with the federal registry. Unlike the federal registry which has an opt- out provision. if an offender can convince a judge they are not a threat, the Ontario registry has no such provision. As a result, individuals who have been convicted of a designated offence at any time after 2001, and relocate to Ontario, are obligated to registry for a period of at least 10years. The registration period begins on the day the ex-offender relocates to Ontario.
President George W. Bush signed into law The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act on July 27, 2006, which includes a Law to honor the memory of Dru Sjodin was born September 26 1981, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dru graduate from Pequot Lakes High School (Minnesota) in the spring of 2000 and was voted high school Homecoming Queen her senior year. She was very artistic and loved playing basketball, volleyball, and golf. Dru chose to attend the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. She interned through the university’s aviation program and enjoyed travelling as abenefit of the program.
On the evening of November 22 2003, after leaving work,22years old Dru Sjodin went missing. An investigation led police officials to Alfonso Rodriques Jr, who was arrested on December 1 2003. After this offender was arrested Dru’s body was found just outside of Crookston, Minnesota. On August 30 2006 Rodrigues was tried and found guilty in Dru’s abduction and was sentenced to death on september 22 2006 under federal law because he crossed state lines in order to commit his crime. that is why on July 27, 2006 President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. This Act included Dru’s Law, which among other things changed the name of the National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) to the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) which provide information to the public on the whereabouts of registered sex offenders regardless of state boundries. ref www.facebook.com/drusvoice. there requirement to other country is completely different from ours in United State because of what happen the offender cross the line that lead to enactment of the law in America to safe guard oue citizen from the hand of the sex offenders.
Lastly explain whether l believe the use of public registry is an effective way of crime control policy and why justify my response.
I believe the use of public registry is an effective way of crime control policy . The deterrence of prison is reduced by the use of public registries, because they have the effect of destroying the value of being out of prison by turning people into pariahs, Prescott says Prison as a threat only works if you have something to lose.
For 10years while Armstrong is on illinios Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry, which is available to the public online, he will face small indignities having to show up once a year at the police station with 10dollars for the privilege of checking in, having the cops show up at his house at any hour, embarrassing him in front of his neighbors, and having to notify the police if he plans to leave town for just a few days- as well as the larger consequences that stem from anyone being able to uncover his murder conviction with just a few keystrokes. This all wasn’t part of the deal when he was convicted in 1986.
In the same year that Prsident Bill Clinton signed the now much debated crime bill of 1994 he signed the Wetterling Act. The law was named for jacob Wetterling an 11year old Minnesota boy who was kidnapped and murdered. The Wetterling Act required that every state maintain lists of people convicted of sex offenses for law enforcement agencies. That idea wasn’t particularly novel, a handful of states had been maintaining crime registries available to cops fordecades. The idea was the registies would serve as a tool for police to keep an eye on particular high risk offenders.
In the two decades since,the idea of making information about offenders public has proven immensely popular. A 2005 Gallup poll showed that virtually all Americans 94 percent supported public sex offender registries and about two-thirds of those surveyed said they weren’t even somewhat concerned about how the public nature of registries affected those forced to sign up. With the internet providing states with a cheap and easy way to get information into the hands of citizens, lawmakers soon found registries to be relatively inexpensive solution to complex inexpensive solutionto complex problems, says Amanda Agan. These policies were well intentioned and they sounded like they might work. And on top of that they are relatively low cost, Agan says But now we have all of this evidence that they just don’t work, but the problem is it’s very difficult to start pulling back . There would be a public outcry.
Reference www.Bureauofjusticestatisticsreport.com
