Policy Efficacy

Policy Efficacy

Sex offender registration

The Sex Offender Registry is a system of the United States and other countries designed to allow government authorities to monitor the residence and activities of sex offenders, including those who have completed their sentence. In some jurisdictions (especially in the U.S.), information registration is available to the public through the Internet or other means. First, law was passed in 1996 which was called the Megan's Law. The latest law passed against the sex offenders is the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in 2006. Sexual assault has a double component of violence and sexuality in the same conduct. Traditionally it addressed from a perspective psychopathological phenomenon, considered among the perversions or sexual deviant behavior. The legal system is found with social change in sexuality and human relations posed a change in the traditional conceptualization of sexual offenses, sexuality becomes voluntarily assumed the right of the person. From this perspective, sexual assault can be understood as the elimination of an individual right, which implies a punishment for the aggressor (Levenson & Cotter, 2005).

Intended outcomes and realization

The main goal of SORN is to reduce the number of sex offender repetition by creating awareness for the offender by various means such as websites, letters, door-to-door notifications and flyers. However, the intended outcome failed to prove it successful. Repetition of sexual offenders had little or no effect. The vast majority of offenders are victim to individuals who they know, they become intimate and are associated with them, contrary to the representations of the media assaults by strangers or pedophiles who kidnap children unknown to them. The sex offender registries were designed to protect and warn the population of sex offenders, however, in at least two cases, convicted sex offenders were murdered after their information was disseminated through the Internet.

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