Demonization And Dehumanization Of Sex Offenders

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  1. Maquiscat

    Maquiscat Well-Known Member

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    Ah so then the victims of such rapists are not worthy of being heard or believed, got it.
     
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    Two other big issues are level of evidence and level of the offense.
    Unfortunately the law often does not provide much distinction between the level of evidence that was used to convict, or the level of the actual offense.

    Quick example just to illustrate what I mean: Imagine a woman accuses a man of a squeezing her butt. There's no other evidence besides her word. He's now convicted as a sex offender and has restrictions imposed on him the rest of his life. (obviously this is kind of an extreme exaggerated example just to try to make the point clear)
    I believe there can be cases where it is appropriate to punish but not appropriate to place lasting restrictions.

    To simply say that "all men convicted of sex offenses" do not deserve to have any rights kind of assumes that all those men are rapists who assaulted a woman in a dark alley and we are certain that they did it. The reality is that some of these men might have only been sentenced to two or three years because the type of offense they committed was a lot less serious than rape, or because they are not entirely certain that the man did it. But still, despite that, some of these laws automatically impose lifetime restrictions just because the nature of the alleged crime happened to be in a certain category.

    Many of these laws end up having consequences that were unforeseen.

    If I were writing the laws, I would require the majority of those on a jury to agree before any lifetime restrictions could be placed on someone who is being found guilty of a crime. This would even apply to those agreeing to plead guilty in plea bargain to less than 7 years. (Maybe they could use a much more expedient process to carry this out than holding a trial, just have the defendant and prosecutor agree to what the evidence is, and then have several different cases presented to the same jury, one after the other, on the same day with conveyor-belt like speed)
     

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