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I think its because the general public considers sex crimes more heinous than other forms of crime. For instance one thinks its horrible when some one is murdered but it seems somhow greatly more horrific and repulsive when that person is raped and murdered. Also when one hears the term "sex offender" I think most people immediately jump to "child molester". Messing with kids just pushes the extreme buttons in just about everybody. There are people that will sit down and have a beer with the local drug dealer or burgler but the merest hint of child molestion, valid or not, and they're gone if not outright hostile. While our justice system is set up (at least theoretically) so that once one does ones time you get a second chance, I admit I want to know if a serial rapist or child molester is living next door. I'm a civilized person. I'm not going to move. I'm not going to bother the guy but I and my family will be on heigtened alert. I don't want to be burglerized either but the whole sex offense thing just sets off more danger signals in my brain.
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