Sex Offender Registration Laws
Sex laws can be traced back as far as the early 1800's. Many of these laws were created for religious reasons, a lot from religions like Christianity. These laws had varying forms of punishments for these crimes, the lowest punishment being a fine and the most extreme would be death. During the 1930's J. Edgar Hoover had made sex crimes a huge focus point in the United States. Also during this time they started looking for methods to help treat and reform individuals that committed these crimes. One method that was used was called electroshock therapy to try and correct their sexual urges, but as the years passed this method was slowly stopped being used because this method was found to be inhuman. Between the years of 1950 to the 1980's people who committed this act were sent to wards for …show more content…
The biggest reason for this was because they were seen as people who were mentally ill. Up until and including this time period there had been extensive research, but it was not targeting a way to treat what they thought to be a mental illness. When the National Man Boy Love Association was created in 1978 it caused an uproar of fear of a possible pedophile ring. When a kid named Ethan Patz disappeared society pointed It's finger at that association even thought there was no true proof that the group had anything to do with his disappearance. When the 1980's came around the way people had looked at these offenders had changed they stopped looking at it like a mental illness they started looking at it as any other crime. When this happened instead of sending them to mental wards and hospitals
Sex laws can be traced back as far as the early 1800's. Many of these laws were created for religious reasons, a lot from religions like Christianity. These laws had varying forms of punishments for these crimes, the lowest punishment being a fine and the most extreme would be death. During the 1930's J. Edgar Hoover had made sex crimes a huge focus point in the United States. Also during this time they started looking for methods to help treat and reform individuals that committed these crimes. One method that was used was called electroshock therapy to try and correct their sexual urges, but as the years passed this method was slowly stopped being used because this method was found to be inhuman. Between the years of 1950 to the 1980's people who committed this act were sent to wards for …show more content…
The biggest reason for this was because they were seen as people who were mentally ill. Up until and including this time period there had been extensive research, but it was not targeting a way to treat what they thought to be a mental illness. When the National Man Boy Love Association was created in 1978 it caused an uproar of fear of a possible pedophile ring. When a kid named Ethan Patz disappeared society pointed It's finger at that association even thought there was no true proof that the group had anything to do with his disappearance. When the 1980's came around the way people had looked at these offenders had changed they stopped looking at it like a mental illness they started looking at it as any other crime. When this happened instead of sending them to mental wards and hospitals