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Originally Posted by guccilvr
The question actually <b>is </b> about our justice system. Our system is full of people who shouldn't be in jail for the amount of time they are sentenced and/or who aren't guilty. Polygraph's aren't admissible in court. Until they are admissible we'll continue to see mistakes and wrongful verdicts. Sure there are plenty of sick fucks out there. What should they do with them? I really don't know. It's probably safe to say though, that if someone was sent to jail for molestation, that they get their due share while they are in there. What I'd really like to see is some sort of distiction and different databases. If all these people are pleading to lesser crimes then the line becomes blurred even more. There should be a seperate database for child molestors and predators; a seperate database for violent offenders, and the last category should be the statutory/non-violent/non-predatory offenders. The way the system is now, people automatically lump all of the offenders into the "pedophile" group. I guess that's really off topic.
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I don't think it's off topic.
We can't really ship certain criminal offenders anywhere except back into society. Given that reality, the question is how do we protect vulnerable citizens from future harm. Monitoring and control seem to be what we've got. Yet, it doesn't make very much sense, from a monitoring perspective, to put all offenders into the same database without distinction. How can you tell you is dangerous or not?
There are big differences between the guy who killed someone in a vehicle accident, the guy who killed his wife after she committed adultery, and they guy who moves around and strangles his next door neighbors. It wouldn't make much sense to treat them all the same in a database or think of them all the same.
It also isn't very responsible journalism to report these extremely anomalous cases as if they were the norm. So four or so cases have been reported now, yet tens of thousads of offenders have not been reoffending in that same timeframe. Do we really need to chop everyones balls off or send people to siberia in light of the fact that just a few people have actually reoffended like that? Seems to me like those people could have stayed in prison or carefully monitored in their homes without too much extra expense from the justice system.
There's a lot of hype surrounding these types of cases, without a lot of connection to the kinds of things that would reduce re-offending. Stranger to stranger molestation is extremely rare--yet this whole registration scheme implemented throughout the states is predicated on the notion that strangers need to protect themselves from boogeymen next door. Mothers don't. Mothers need to monitor when grandpa plays with sally. or when uncle plays with sally. and mother usually knows when she has to do that because she might have some suspicion from her childhood. and that would reduce these types of incidents tenfold or more.
after people start thinking about this and resonding rationally, we would have more resources to spend on the people who do go out and predate on others in public.