Argumentative Essay On Sex Offenders

During the mid-1990s, sex offenders have been required to provide many personal details—name, age, address, phone number—to both the police and the general community in which they live; however since the invention of the internet, many sex offenders’ information has been spread across the Internet which then goes across the country and even the world. While majority of court cases may be viewed by the public on the Internet, the sex offender registries make it like a giant, neon sign that screams “I’m a criminal”; these registries put sex offenders at risk for vigilante crimes for, many American citizens believe that they are helping reduce the rate of children being raped even when the recidivism rate for sex offender is between 12 percent
The enactment of one of the original sex offender registries (The Jacob Wetterling Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act) was after the the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in the fall of 1989; a sex offender was thought to have committed the crime, for there was an idea that many sex offenders were being sent to a halfway house near where Wetterling was abducted (). To supporters of the act, a conclusion could have been drawn in their mind that the community needs to know when any criminal of a sex crime is near in order to lower the amount of victims of sexually-based offenses. With the creation of the registries, there still needed more to be done to further lower the amount of victims; obscenity and banishment laws were enacted to prevent rape and sexual assault. On February 27, 2017, a court case was in session over the social media ban in South Carolina; this brought into the light that many supporters of the registry and the sex offender laws believe sex offenders will stalk young men and women through the Internet so they should not be allowed to have that access (). The registry and laws against sex offenders are there in order to try and stop sex crimes, even when they may cause harm to the sex