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Our sex offender laws are ridiculous, but there is a sorta-valid reason the sex offender registry exists.

In terms of true sex offenders - rapists, pedophiles, etc - we can't rehabilitate them. They will more than likely offend again.

Well, not according to the USDOJ they're not. In fact, they have a lower recidivism rate than most offenders. The offense with the highest rate of reoffense is drug offenders. Sex offender 5 year release reoffense rate is 5.3%. If that sounds high to you, consider that 5.3% of the 750,000 people on the sex offender registry are the dangerous ones. Almost 95% are not. 8.6% of non-sex offender related offenders re offended within 5 years of release. 86% of new sex offenses are committed by people that are not on the registry. So exactly what good does this society "to-hate" list do?

http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/Reports/Sexrecid.pdf

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender

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It is a common misconception that all sex offenders reoffend. Its one of those things the media has repeated enough times that people accept it as truth. Well, it's not. In fact, have a look at the sex offender registry and just pick people out at random. I had to read about 30 profiles before I found someone who reoffended, and this persons' first offense was in 1968 and their second was in 2008. That hardly counts.
 
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I have no idea why I feel the need to post this but I do.

This is hilarious.

 
Well, not according to the USDOJ they're not. In fact, they have a lower recidivism rate than most offenders. The offense with the highest rate of reoffense is drug offenders. Sex offender 5 year release reoffense rate is 5.3%. If that sounds high to you, consider that 5.3% of the 750,000 people on the sex offender registry are the dangerous ones. Almost 95% are not. 8.6% of non-sex offender related offenders re offended within 5 years of release. 86% of new sex offenses are committed by people that are not on the registry. So exactly what good does this society "to-hate" list do?

http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/Reports/Sexrecid.pdf

Sex offender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is a common misconception that all sex offenders reoffend. Its one of those things the media has repeated enough times that people accept it as truth. Well, it's not. In fact, have a look at the sex offender registry and just pick people out at random. I had to read about 30 profiles before I found someone who reoffended, and this persons' first offense was in 1968 and their second was in 2008. That hardly counts.

The stats you quoted included ALL "sex offenders." In many cases that means people who get caught peeing in public, or 18-year-old's who have sex with 16-year-olds. I don't consider those to be actual "sex offenses" and I wasn't referring to those in my post.

If you isolate the types of sex offenders I was referring to (rape, pedophiles, etc), it's considerably higher.

Your first source says:
Recidivism rates differed considerably based on a victim typology:
’Rapists’ (adult victims) 48.7%
Teen Victims (age 13-17) 31.1%
Child Victims (under age 13) 21.9%
All Incest Cases 8.6%

Also, keep in mind that rape (of either adults or children) is one of the most under-reported crimes there is. Most rapists never spend a day in jail.

54% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according to a statistical average of the past 5 years. Those rapists, of course, never spend a day in prison. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 3% of rapists ever serve a day in jail.
Reporting Rates | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (references are Justice Department, FBI, DoJ, National Center for Policy Analysis)

We know through psychological study that most serious sex offenders DO re-offend... and we also know that most of them get away with it, and even those who are convicted are only ever punished for a small fraction of the real crimes they commit. When promised confidentiality, almost 65% of rapists admit to further sex crimes, averaging out to 4.4 rapes per rapist who is in prison. Of the majority who admitted to multiple sex crimes, they were also more likely to have been generally violent and to have sexually assaulted both adults and children. They often show signs of sociopathy.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...vPmcDQ&usg=AFQjCNFpHIRwuj_z7-5gjFDTwqz4mtUXIQ

(^Let me know if this link doesn't work - it should open up a PDF)
 
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