#403 - 06/03/07 02:43 AM
What makes a sex offender?
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Patricia
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Well I was really wondering - could everybody become a sex offender during certain circumstances or is it in their genetic code?
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#404 - 06/03/07 02:48 AM
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I think that everybody has a choice and that it's up to them. Perhaps they may have some darker side of their personality ,but they must fight to hold it back. Perhaps their sexual urges are just stronger than those of the regular people - I don't know.
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#406 - 06/03/07 02:50 AM
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I'm sorry for posting so many articles , but I think that this will answer your question:
Study counters notion that sex offenders are inevitable recidivists
Sex offenders are not as hopelessly fated to a life of deviant behavior as is widely believed, especially if they stay in corrective treatment, according to a new study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (Vol. 66, No. 2, p. 348–362).
Canadian psychologists R. Karl Hanson, PhD, and Monique T. Bussiere, PhD, recently reviewed 61 studies covering more than 23,300 cases of sex offenses and found that only 13.4 percent of the individuals identified in the studies went on to commit another sex crime. They found that individuals who did reoffend had committed more sexual offenses, had more deviant sexual interests—such as sex with boys or victimization of strangers—and did not complete their rehabilitative treatment programs.
Hanson and Bussiere admit that many offenses may go undetected, and recidivism rates could increase as more time passes. But still, the findings contradict the wide-held notion that most sex offenders inevitably repeat their deviant behavior, they add.
'Treatment programs can contribute to community safety,' they write. 'We now have reliable evidence that those who attend and cooperate with treatment programs are less likely to reoffend than those who reject intervention.'
Hanson and Bussiere are corrections researchers at the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada.
—S. Sleek
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#915 - 09/07/07 10:41 PM
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What I think is ridiculous with the laws these days is that too many guys get listed as a sex offender for havingg sex with their 17 year old girl friend when they are 18 or 19. The sex is consentul yet they get charged with a crime and end up having their whole life ruined.
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#955 - 09/08/07 02:49 PM
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Julie
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Yes, I hate it. I never told my parents when I was going out with my boyfriend because he was an adult and I was scared that he would get listed. As soon as I got my sexual majority I told them and well it ended up ok. My best girl friend got listed though when she was 18 'cose her boyfriend was 17 I think it's disgusting.
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#1094 - 09/16/07 11:40 AM
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The whole point is that such sex is NOT consentual under the law. Childhood is a form of incompetency - anyone under the statutory age in their state cannot GIVE consent. This is why minors can't vote, can't drink, can't enter legal contracts, and can't consent to sex. It's because minors they don't have the ability to understand the long term consequences of their actions. Even a lot of adults don't have that ability! But when one person is a legal adult, the burden is on THEM to behave accordingly. To look at it another way, a minor might tell an adult that they want to drink that yummy looking gasoline. So they DID consent - but when you give it to them, guess who gets in trouble.
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#1097 - 09/19/07 12:41 AM
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Children aree also easy targets. Depending on the age, it's easy to get them into the" let's share a secret" scenario. We have always told our kids that there are no secrets except maybe what you are getting someone for their birthday.
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#1144 - 09/30/07 09:07 PM
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I guess to answer the original question, yes I would think that under certain circumstances, a lot of otherwise normal people could fall victim to being classified as a sexual predator.
I don't know how many other people have noticed this or not, but it seems like kids are developing earlier and earlier with each passing year. Girls in their early teens now have full breast and could pass for a woman in their early twenties. Whereas the boys are also developing musculature that 15 years ago was next to impossible to develop at such an early age.
All it takes is one error in judgement and for a parent to find out, and you could find yourself in a big wad of trouble when you didn't think you were doing anything wrong.
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#1207 - 12/13/07 05:03 PM
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A handful of so-called "Statutory rapes" are between a 17 y/o and someone 2 or 3 years older.
And the law is full of generalizations, the age of consent varies from state to state and it varies wildly from country to country. Some places, such as Japan, it can be as low as 13 and some places have it as high as 20.
Sometimes, a single action can get someone branded a sex-offender, even if the action was something jocular or accidental, like making a wolf whistle at someone in the street or accidentally brushing against someones breast.
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#1295 - 12/17/07 02:47 PM
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I hate that law. If you are 18 and your girl friend is 17 then you should be allowed to have sex with no legal problems. Most of the time it is consetual so you should not be called a sex offender or get jail time for that.
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#1718 - 05/22/08 06:56 AM
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It can go either way. Drug use, alcohol use, even something as menial as nutrition. Different factors affect the brain, and though they may not seem to be chemical in nature, it can have a chemical effect and have a huge impact on one's behavior and conduct.
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#1738 - 06/23/08 04:19 PM
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I think it's a combination of chemical imbalance, the way they were brought up(bad childhood), and desicion making skills. In addition, the situation in which you're named a sex offender.
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#1779 - 10/17/08 06:29 PM
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Owen
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Unfortunatly I was adjudicated of a sex crime and I would like to say that youth offenders who are S.O.'s mostly have some serious stress around them and often they are boys who have reached the height of puberty and want to be sexually active. Most if not all were exposed to pornography before the abuse and this gave them incentive to attempt to have sex with younger kids that were close to them. This is a general statement because I was in a correctional facility with boys that were 14- 23 and this is usually their story.
I can answer a lot of questions just go ahead and ask.
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