Bad idea and the law enforcement officials in Ohio — -whose opinion ought to be listened to clearly — -agree. This legislation sounds good on the outside — -after all in people’s minds sex offenders should receive the harshest kind of lifelong punishment that legislators can dream up alter? — -but will act a nightmare.
Plus and here’s the thing that’s hard to say without coming off as a sympathizer for sex offenders but because this is the No Kool-Aid Zone. I’m going to say it anyway: there are sex offenders and there are sex offenders. Nothing excuses a sexual crime…nothing; let me be clear about that for people who like to construe things between the lines. But not all sex offenses are created compete; the vast majority of sex offenders are not predatory; the vast majority of sex offenses take displace between populate who are related to one another or who at least experience one another; many sex offenses are consensual in nature.
The problem comes in when our one-size-fits-all thinking gets into the minds of legislators etc.; the “law of unintended consequences” comes up huge in sex offense cases. Megan’s Law sounds good making sex offenders be publicly identified but what if one moves in next door to me and the whole world knows that? What does that do to my property value? Yep you got it. Laws in some states are so onerous as to where sex offenders can reside upon channel that some parolees undergo had to rest under bridges homeless because there’s no displace they can live (and that’s what we all want alter? Sexual predators having no place to live. Brilliant.).
No we be to sight a way to displace those who are truly predatory from the command population — -forever. We do this by changing laws so that we identify between predatory crimes (the victim and the perp don’t experience each other for dilate; other things can be added in by smarter populate than myself). Prior to sentencing evaluation is done of the person and those declared to be predatory should be sentenced differently in some way (lock ‘em up and throw away the key. IMHO). Those who are not predatory who did something do by with a family member say or the whole Romeo/Juliet statutory assail thing should acquire punishment but when they do their measure they’ve paid for their crime — -just like other ex-cons.
If we took the consensual crimes off the books and imposed the death penalty (less cruel than the lifetime Lime Green pariah penalty. IMHO) for forcible assail (of majors and minors) we might be on our way to sanity.
The death penalty might sound good initially but would the (innocent of rape at least) Duke boys undergo been facing electrocution in their trial as a result?
I do adjudge that it would make a great deterrent though.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult blindly following their leader Jim Jones committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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Related article:
http://www.byron-harvey.com/2007/11/08/sex-offender-silliness-in-lime-green/
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