This is my first blog so bear with me.
Yesterday, I found out that my family got another notification in the mail about a sex offender in our neighborhood. This is the one of many that we've gotten over the last few years. This brought up an issue that I've been passionate about for a little while. While talking about it with a friend and my mother, I brought up rehabilitation for sex offenders as opposed to just putting them in jail for a short period of time. I feel like many times it's a psychological problem, so just punishing them isn't going to help because he or she might not comprehend it was wrong, if that makes sense.
This also reminded me of one of my favorite movies, The Woodsman, and how the main character had such a hard time integrating into society after prison, especially after his co-workers found out that he was a sex offender, which brings up another issue. Should people be notified about sex offenders being released from prision or is that a violation of the offender's rights? I kind of see both sides of it. People have a right know, especially if it was a child-related crime, if someone is an offender in their neighborhood, but if the offender knew about this policy (which they do), would it matter? You can't notify the whole city/state/country of the release of a rapist, can you? No one can possibly keep up with that on the websites the government provides and what's stopping the sex offender from going outside of their neighborhood to strike again?
But on the flip side, is it fair for the sex offender to be shunned by his or her neighbors for the rest of his or her life? They did serve their time and, to my knowledge, there isn't a law about this for any other type of criminal.
Any comments are appreciated!
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Actually, this is a very heavy topic for me since my Paternal Figure is a convicted sex-offender. I was in foster care for most of my life because of this. I don't speak to him anymore, and haven't for some time, but I feel very strongly on this issue.
When it comes to offender's rights, I think they have very few. Humans have natural rights: the right to life, liberty and property. However, upon violating another's human rights, they lose these inherent privileges and thus become subject to due process. I don't think privacy is an inherent right by any means. That's a very Westernized idea. If you go to a place like China, Hong Kong or India there is no privacy. I think that a convicted sex-offender should lose their privacy if they are released back into the public domain in order to provide for the safety of those around them. Parents need to know if a convicted sex-offender is living close to them so that they can protect their children.
When a sex-offender is in prison they do go through heavy rehabilitation and psychological therapy. They don't just hang around their cells all day waiting to go back out into the world. They system works to make them functioning members of society, but there is only so much the system can do. I think that rehabilitation after a sex offender is released from prison should continue. God knows that my Paternal Figure should still be in therapy, but he isn't.
I think if you violate a child, or innocent person than it is completely fair to be shunned for your action. I know few sex offenders, and believe me I've met a lot, that are even repentant for their actions.
The time they serve is usually half of what they were sentenced anyways, so I don't think it's adequate to say they "did their time."
I sympathize with the above poster's hardships, I do. However, punitive measures such as prisons are based on the idea of paying one's debt to society. After prison, with proper rehabilitation, I think that sex offender registration is undemocratic. Yes, these people have done terrible things, but I think that their survival of the American penal system (no easy feat with the sex offender tag, especially one with pedophilic undertones) and the fact that they served their full sentences should be enough to spare them the hell of sex offender registration. The current system can also lead to parental vigilantism. Once you're done atoning, you should be done getting punished, too.
If the persons crime involved children, I think the neighborhood should be told so they can keep their kids away from him.
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