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It's not centered. He must be extremely disappointed.
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Sex offenders cannot be deterred by harsher punishments. Their problem is bad wiring and they will (often) recommit regardless of the long-term consequences. This does not excuse them from culpability for their crimes.
Tagging them or otherwise letting the community know about them sometimes leads to vigilante justice. Keeping them in prison past their lawfully imposed release dates doesn't seem right, either.
Perhaps a 1-strike you're out, law?
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He was already serving a life sentence for his crime. The only community that would recognize him as a child molester would be the prison community. Don't get me wrong, I think sex offenders need to be dealt with harshly, but I don't think 'vigilante justice' was necessarily needed in this situation. But I guess that is the way it goes with doing time.Originally Posted by The_Meach
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Change the lawful imprisonment then. Kiddy-rapers should never get another chance, the same way that I feel a murderer does not deserve the right to live a normal life again. It's been shown time and time again that rapists and pedophiles are extreme repeat offenders. At least if the public is more aware of it it will keep the fucking bastards away from occupations that put them close to children. I hear all the time about past offenders ending up as school janitors or working near day care centers, it's horrible.
I know the possibility for vigilante justice is pretty high, but a lot of areas require certain sex offenders to go door-to-door in new neighborhoods and have everyone sign a paper saying that they know of their record. Why can't we mark their license so that it'd be the same for employers and anyone else who would ever need to see an ID?
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The problem here is this: The system has a rate of fuckups. People who cannot afford proper representation get raped in the end, the poor and the stupid who shouldn't be penalized by the system (they get that by default). But once someone is in the system as an offender they lose X years of their life, and upon their return to society are ostrazied and are going to have a horriable bitch of a time getting employment outside of a fucking min wage job. Basicly by putting all this added penality to someone who already has a record, why shouldn't they reoffend and go back to prison where the get 3 square without working or having to work a shitty job.
Sending a person to prison means that society believes that a person is redeemable, if they weren't they'd be sent to death row or put in for life. That someday, an offender has a chance to do good again. However, prisoners are increasingly used as political sacrifices.
I hate to be the prisoner's advocate here but honestly, all these extended punitive measures are just an easy way for politicians to be tougher on crime without really doing anything to catch or rehabilitate the criminals free or in the system. Its hard to make this case in a political campgain cause honestly who wants to come out as "pro-rapist" or "pro-weakness"
If you believe that rapists and murderers are redeemable, they should be given a fair shot to returning to a normal exsistance to society, if not just fucking kill them. But be VERY sure that you've got the right guy, otherwise you've just executed/ruined the life of an innocent, declared the case closed and let the true perp go free.
In a perfect world we'd just go all judge dred on people but its not. The system is flawed but its the best we got.
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Replace the death penalty with full-frontal lobotomy, turn them back over to the family to pay for their upkeep for the rest of their vegetable lives. This way poses the least cost to the state, and hey if somewhere down the line he gets exonerated by 'out of nowhere' evidence then atleast you didn't kill him.
Time for a change
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I'm probably a bad person or whatever for saying this, but yes, I would honestly rather risk someone without good representation being ostracized than have a repeat offender go unchecked and molest or otherwise harm a single child/series of offenses. Yes it sucks when people are cleared for murder due to DNA after serving 8 years or whatever, but those are the exceptions. I am not comfortable with child rapists being thrown back into society after a few years of good behavior only to do the same shit again and not get caught until the fifth victim speaks up.
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This is the first thing I thought. What the fuck is wrong with me?
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