Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act

confronted with unwanted sexual activity” (Bonnar-Kidd). In addition, 900,000 children are neglected…

There are many dangers today dealing with sex offenders, and why the law should not change. Sex offenders are people that abuse someone else sexually which causes harm physically or emotionally to the victim. Sex offenders are more than likely to have reoccurring sexual abuse acts. Victims should not have to live in fear every day because their accused abuser is walking freely. Sex offenders should not be able to live freely as law-abiding citizens because of the damage they have caused to…

message to the criminal that the crime(s) they have committed are wrong and for committing the crime(s) they must be punished accordingly; however, in a prevention model, when talking about criminal law, the criminal is told that the crime(s) they have committed were wrong, but don’t let it happen again. The key point the author points out here is how the message is delivered to the criminal is key. When looking at restorative justice programs for example, the offender is being transitioned…