Punishment, Justice, and Reform: Assessing the Impact of Public Sex Offender Registry List

PUNISHMENT JUSTICE AND REFO
REFORM
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Overview....................................................................................................................................3
Affirmative Side........................................................................................................................4
Rebuttal......................................................................................................................................5
Negative Side.............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Sexual offending does have significant impact on the victims which could lead adequate
angst within the community. In order to manage the same the community relating to sex
offender is of dominant importance. The same could be analyzed and assessed through sex
offender registry list. Present report emphasizes on assessing the affirmative and negative
prospective of public sex offender registry list on safety of community and deterring crime.
In order to ascertain adequate crux of both the sides’ sociological theories which have been
applied are structural functionalism and symbolic interactionism. Further, the principles of
punishment which have been collaborated in present study are rehabilitation, deterrence and
retribution.
OVERVIEW
According to Taylor (2017), sex offender registry list refers to a list which is established by
countries to enable the government authorities to keep track of activities related to sex
offenders, comprising those individuals also who have completed punishment for their
crimes. In order to know about the crimes, website is established which allows parents and
guardians to have queries with Western Police Force regarding any individual who has
unsupervised to their child. For the same, three tiers are offered to families that are missing
offenders, local search and disclosure scheme. It was introduced on 1st October 2004. Further,
the Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 specifies that it oblige reporting responsibilities on
sex offenders to supply appropriate information to the police for law enforcement purposes as
well as to reduce the risk relating to re-offending. As per study of Stucky and Ottensmann
(2016), in the section 2.2 of the Act, the purpose behind introducing this system is stated
which is decreasing the risk of harm to children through sexual abuse.
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