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Originally Posted by ziadel
I believe that any privacy for the offender is thrown out the window because of the incredibly high rate of repeate offenses among sex offenders.
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Except that's not true, sex offenders generally have a lower recidivism rate than others. I understand that we're talking about children and everybody goes crazy when the safety of children is involved, but ridiculous statements like that are what make it nearly impossible for sex offenders to return to society.
These public humiliation forums, listing sex offenders, or johns, or drunk drivers do more harm than good, in my opinion. If these people are still threats, then they should still be on probation or parole, supervised by qualified professionals. By placing their pictures and identities in public the government is just throwing it's hands up in warning and delegating its job to the public at large. These warnings aren't going to help parents stay away from sex offenders (who contrary to public perception are not posing as babysitters to get into your living rooms); rather, it's going to prevent former criminals from getting jobs delivering pizza or working in a shoe factory.
If keeping former criminals unemployed and apart from the rest of society is your goal then this is the plan for you. If you want to see people rehabilitated or returned to society in a productive manner than this half-assed vigilantism should end.
http://esor.freeservers.com/Examining.pdf
edit: And please, don't rely on third party websites to offer you this information. If you want to know if a sex offender is living near you at least search out an official source, like your state's sex offender registration bureau (probably connected to the state police).