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Registration required: Are sex offenders unique?
posted by Thomas on Friday November 08, @02:03PM
from the Inequality dept.
Inequality I've often wondered about the forced registration of sex offenders, when other violent criminals are not required to register with the police. This article questions the dubious reasons for forcing only sex offenders to register and have their names and addresses available to the public. It seems to me that child abusers, at the very least, should also be forced to register. Perhaps they aren't because women are the perpetrators of most physical abuse and murders of children.

Source: www.townhall.com

Title: Registration required: Are sex offenders unique?

Author: Jacob Sullum

Date: November 8, 2002

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I Remain Convinced (Score:2)
by frank h on Friday November 08, @02:53PM EST (#1)
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I remain convinced that THIS is the primary reason that women who commit such crimes, like Paula Poundstone, are never prosecuted for them. Other charges are used by prosecutors who are compelled to charge women with a crime at all. Sexual abuse charges against women are avoided at all costs. I happen to think that any woman who is charged with raping (or as the media likes to describe it: having sex with ) a student ought to be registering as a sex offender, especially BECAUSE of their profession.
Insane offenders. (Score:1)
by John Knouten on Friday November 08, @04:16PM EST (#2)
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I think most sex crimes are neither about sex nor about power but about insanity. Thus I oppose cruel and unusual punishment for these crimes. These people should be treated more like the criminally insane.
PUNISHMENT AND CRIME
Re:Insane offenders. (Score:1)
by Dan Lynch (dan047@sympatico.ca) on Friday November 08, @07:04PM EST (#3)
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"I think most sex crimes are neither about sex nor about power but about insanity. "

I think you are right John. If you remember that research where you found that post it.

I was convicted for a sex crime. But the translated offence was not a 'felony' charge. In Canada the Crown (DA) has a choice of proceeding via summery conviction which means it is likened to a 'misdomeaner' offence. Correct me if I am wrong.

Assaults are high-bred offences which allows the Crown(DA) and the Crown only to decide not me or the accused.

Mind you the trials are bullshit and systemic discrimination is so rampant I don't know where to begin. But, what I am saying here is, it was considered a minor offence of which I got minor punishment (more proof it was bullshit). In the end it is possible that I could have to register for such a thing without the benifit of having a jury of my peers hear the case. Some old bity biased judge who was friends with the Crown(DA) on a personal level heard my case.

Clearly this in the end, is a political manouver where politicians know it gives women power. In such case they of course do not want to convict women or women will bach at the political intervention of the crime thereby undermining the political advantage.

Politicians and Police officials know this and continue to terrorize women in order to gain special powers and more funding and more votes.
  Systemic Discrimination must be stopped.
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Dan Lynch
Re:Insane offenders. (Score:1)
by bledso on Saturday November 09, @12:40AM EST (#5)
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Why not a child abuse registry too? Imagine the uproar that would cause. Imagine what it would be like to hear genfems complaining about false accusations?
A little off-topic, but..., (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Saturday November 09, @03:21AM EST (#6)
Here in America, We have heared the media say, time and again "Wife abuse is America's best kept secret."

Really? Then why is it that everybody and their brother KNOWS about it...?
Okay, so if "wife abuse" is America's "Best kept secret", What would they call 'Husband abuse'? Or 'Child abuse'? and who commits them?
I'd say those are MUCH better kept secrets then "wife abuse".

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Re:Insane offenders. (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Wednesday November 13, @05:49PM EST (#8)
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I think you have a great point there. Remember Robert Blake, who was arrested on suspicion of having his wife killed several months ago? In an eerily prescient interview he gave on Howard Stern a year or so before that, he likened murder to suicide - if you kill someone else, you might as well be killing yourself, considering the life you have to look forward to afterwards.

Is committing rape materially different from this? Everyone knows the consequences. I think you'd have to be off your rocker to care so little for another that you'd subject them to that in the first place.
Re:Insane offenders. (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Wednesday November 13, @06:59PM EST (#9)
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By the way, I read your "Punishment and Crime" series. Very interesting!
I felt this article was related (Score:1)
by Dan Lynch (dan047@sympatico.ca) on Friday November 08, @07:28PM EST (#4)
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"...The love that these hussies now seek, demands that government meets their every need and desire. In trade for their devotion, the suffragist barters for the security that they abandoned when they left the nest of masculine protection. They want to be equal! They want to be fulfilled... But what they got was a pimp that treats them like the harlot that they have become."

Uncle Sam: The New Pimp

November 5, 2002

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by Sartre

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Reasons for the 'Political Correctness' in government, are many. Each contribute to the erosion of the body politik. Their sum total is that the culture and the direction in government intervention continue its unending march into a 'Brave New Land'. From all the factors that influence this metamorphosis, few recognize the most hideous of the lot. Is it the conflicts of race or ethnic differences? Or could it be the media's limiting the parameters of the discussion? How about the elitist educators who restrict and define free debate? No, none of these is the most prominent. All but the lone recluse is confronted with this influence, and few can escape its ability to alter events. Yes, Virginia, it is the 'power of the pussy'...

The consequences of liberation feminism has altered the historic relationship of the individual to government more than any other single factor. All the 'isms' combined have their manifestation in the mindset of the female voter. The demographics are undeniable. Their influence is commanding. And no politician can ignore their force. With the disintegration of the family unit, America has been transformed into a day care center for society. The movement of self realization has taken a path with no way back, as long as the fair sex seeks to be the dominate gender.

When the frail forsake their men, they turn to a new lover. They were seduced by a gigolo, and were invited into residing within his bordello. The love that these hussies now seek, demands that government meets their every need and desire. In trade for their devotion, the suffragist barters for the security that they abandoned when they left the nest of masculine protection. They want to be equal! They want to be fulfilled... But what they got was a pimp that treats them like the harlot that they have become.

The psychological term is codependency. The result for society is chaos. The infusion of demands, requires an expansion of programs. When single motherhood is held to be acceptable and desired, the bewilderment of the child is inevitable. The strains placed upon society multiplies and the feminist turns to her procurer for the support that she no longer has in her own man. The Democratic Party becomes her new family. Their 'Ideology' embraces her new aspirations, while those repulsive Republicans represent all that was fled and now, so hated. And we wonder why they say these creatures reside on Venus?

The more this trend continues, the deeper we all sink into the clutches of the nanny state. The new voting block demands it. The justification for equal treatment knows no bounds or restraints upon dismantling the institutions of traditional society. For those who assert that this force can be stopped, the battle has already been lost. Equality now reigns. The petticoat has been styled into the business suit. The one time entry worker is now the middle level (wo)manager. The pain and strain on her is now showing, as the price paid for reaching her long desired ascendancy of independent freedom. Just how is it from such lofty levels, now that you have made all those strives?

When you soak in the relaxing waters of your hot bath, you have learned the real meaning of stress. Your sauna promises relief, but there is no caring partner to share your concerns and fears. For you have turned that water into a cesspool of disease. But you can always turn to your fantasy lover, to propose an environmentally friendly program to clean up the debris. It must have been left over from the Reagan-Bush era.

Emotions now RULE! Reason has long been discarded. Logic not only has been deserted, but is now held in contempt. No wonder that the sex is so disappointing. The substitute lover is never as good as the real thing. But the gentlewoman ally in Congress is now your new model. Since you reject your natural role, you aspire to become a Boxer, a Mikulski or a Moseley-Braun. What stellar examples of womanhood! The time is long gone when the class of a Margaret Chase Smith is seen in public service.

So what are the prospects that this illness can have a metempsychosis of their views? At this time, not very likely. No neat little RU 486 solutions to a nasty mistake. For this dilemma is a crisis of the soul, more than that of the political order. Government will cater to the weak and confused, as long as the culture generates values and deceptions that produce greater numbers of the feeble and perplexed. Further demands for more government IS the future, until the gold-diggers divorce their substitute suitor. They need to reaffirm their vows to their true husband, THE America of our Judeo-Christian tradition. Their affair with the illusion of forbidden love has failed. It is destroying our Nation and killing our children. It has murdered millions of our unborn and has placed the genders at war. The time for fidelity is overdue. Come back home and return to the 'Lady' that you are meant to be.

Till that fateful day arrives, it may well be better to sign on for that voyage to the red planet. At this point, Mars resembles more of reality, than the atmosphere on Venus...

Sartre

Dan Lynch
I agree that it should be more consistent (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Wednesday November 13, @05:37PM EST (#7)
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It's funny that the police will notify me if a kiddy fiddler moves in next door, but I'm on my own if it's an axe murderer or a firebug. My problem with this whole process is really twofold - one, prison is a gladiatorial arena, when it should really be a more rehabilitative environment; and two, the registration laws place enormouse weight on sex crimes while totally ignoring every other kind of crime. It seems rather braindead to me to stigmatize people who have already served their sentences to the point where they can barely hold residence or a job - to do so encourages them to hate society even more than they did before, and may force them into further criminal activities (stealing etc.) in order to survive.
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