Reflections

I am very glad I chose the topic sex offenders. In the beginning of my research I wanted to learn a lot about my topic but it was hard to research in class because it said the word (sex) offenders. Everything I learn was very important, but three important things I learned about my topic was that you can go to the internet and search for sex offenders near your neighborhood. Thanks to Megan’s law every sex offender needs to register. Most sex offenders RE-offend once they get out of jail they go and abuse again. Most sex offenders rape kids 13 years and under its easier for them. One thing that I learn made me very very mad was that most of the sex offenders are family members!! A advice, that I would give the people is to go to the internet and look for sex offenders that live around them. I looked in the internet and there are six sex offenders in Carbondale, one of them lives close to where I live.

If some one was going to read one of my blogs I would tell them to read blog 12.
I Think I did very good with my blogs I really tried very hard because my topic was very interesting to me. At first I hated keeping a blog every week now I love it I learned more about a topic I choose. At the some time I learn about other students blogs. It was fun reading other students blogs.

Editorial Opposing Viewpoint

Castration of sex offenders would reduce sexual violence, By: Larry Don McQuay and Fred S. Berlin.
Larry Don McQuay viewpoint is that the fear of being sent to prison after his release will not deter him from molesting children again. He said that Castration is the only treatment that will keep him from molesting children. Castration is when males privet part is removed, and Chemical castration is an injection that reduce a mans sexual desire. Which I believe is an affective treatment for sex offenders. You can find Larry Don McQuay in Texas prison serving an eight year sentence for molesting a single boy. That’s all the court convicted him for, but he had abused close to 200 children. Larry said that all sex offenders wear the INNOCENT-LOOKING MASKS of a father, stepfather, uncle, cousin. They could also wear the caring face of a babysitter, a teacher, and a priest. Larry himself have worn various masks like a brother, cousin, stepfather, uncle, school-bus driver, and a family friend. Prison is not a deterrent for most sex offenders, and it definitely will not be a deterrent for Larry. In Fact, in many cases prison intensifies sex offenders’ condition by making them more savage. What used to be a cultivated “relationship” that took time and preparation became an unplanned kidnapping and rape where children are beaten, tortured, ravaged, and often found dead and mutilated, or never found at all. Sex offenders who’ve been to prison not only get more violent but also learn a lesson about how to stay out of jail, make sure that the next victim can’t ever report them. Larry speaks from experience he dreams of kidnapping children in a way that renders them unable to identify him.

Taxes Gavern Ann Richards said that six offenders on prison are making her pay millions of dollars, The fact is prison is nothing more than an oversized, overpriced homeless shelter. The prisoners are well fed and clothes and have warm beds to sleep in, all for free. To sex offenders, loss of freedom means there are no children around to rape, but they can get child pornography or watch T.V, and have memories of there past crimes. Sex is plentiful in prison, they rape the youngest prisoners. Some citizens claim that Castration itself is Barbaric. Larry said that Barbaric is what he had done to so many children; refusing to castrate me is barbaric to the children I will molest. Whether for their first, second, or third conviction of a sex offender, is currently a violation of the United State Constitution because it is considered “ cruel and unusual punishment.” But no punishment is crueler or more unusual than the pain I have caused my victims. Voluntary castration is not unconstitutional, but no state allows it. Surgical castration involves removal of the testes only. When the penis is removed but the testes are still left intact, a man is far less likely to attempt to engage in sexual Behavior. Removal of the testes generally decreases the desire for sexual activity. All sex offenders should be force to be Chemically Castrated!!!!!

Poem

You are sound asleep peacefully dreaming
suddenly a stranger comes and takes you away screaming
You yell for help hoping someone will hear you
Nobody comes and your terrified he will kill you
You wonder “What’s happening Why I’m I here”

He takes you somewhere dark and quiet and his motives become clear
You are dropped on the floor and your clothes are ripped off
You keep screaming with fear and think this men probable eats from a trough
You try to fight back you hit, scratch, and bite.
But what you don’t know is that he is aroused by your fright

He has his way with you, then drops you in a whole
Burying you alive is his final goal.
How can a men hurt a 9 year old girl that has no mistake
How can a men hurt a 9 year old girl that sees the world so perfect
What did she do to disserve so much pain?

Sex Offender Statistics

This graph showes how Child Sex Assault is the highest percentage. The reason is because most of the time, children under 13 are the once that get raped more.

This gragh showes the highest sex offenders regerstragen in the USA. Colorado is one of the states that is not so high. California state is one of the highest.

Sex offenders

1. On a given day in 1994 there were approximately 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies; nearly 60% of these sex offenders are under conditional supervision in the community.
2. The median age of the victims of imprisoned sexual assaulters was less than 13 years old; the median age of rape victims was about 22 years.
3. An estimated 24% of those serving time for rape and 19% of those serving time for sexual assault had been on probation or parole at the time of the offense for which they were in State prison in 1991.
4. Of the 9,691 male sex offenders released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, 5.3% were rearrested for a new sex crime within 3 years of release.
5. Of released sex offenders who allegedly committed another sex crime, 40% perpetrated the new offense within a year or less from their prison discharge.

Women offenders
1. In 1998 there were an estimated 3.2 million arrests of women, accounting for 22% of all arrests that year.
2. Based on self-reports of victims of violence, women account for 14% of violent offenders, an annual average of about 2.1 million violent female offenders.
3. Women accounted for about 16% of all felons convicted in State courts in 1996: 8% of convicted violent felons, 23% of property felons, and 17% of drug felons.
4. In 1998 more than 950,000 women were under correctional supervision, about 1% of the U.S. female population.

*The prevalence of imprisonment in 2001 was higher for-black males (16.6%) and Hispanic males (7.7%) than for white males (2.6%) -black females (1.7%) and Hispanic females (0.7%) than white females (0.3%)

Fact, Opinion, Summurise and Respond

On Monday November 26Th the T.V show Primer Impacto reported a case from El Salvador. El Salvador has a large rate of sex offenders. For example, they reported about a family where the dad would make five of his daughters have sex with him. The mother of those girls knew everything about the rape. She was ok with it because he is the man of the house; the one who brings money to the family. Out of the five girls, the youngest is only 7-years-old. The rest of the four girls are pregnant. Primer Impacto was also reporting that in most of the cases the family members are the one who rape girl. Most of the time the mothers know about the abuse. They make them self's think it's not real, so they don't say anything or do anything about the rape. They make there self believe that the rape never happened.
I hate the fact that most of the cases of sex offenders are from family members. How can someone be called family when the only thing they are doing is hurting their family? I don't understand how a mother would let someone hurt her daughters just for money. I rather be poor and have nothing then let someone hurt my family. I would give my life for my family.

Great Debate

In June the beginning of a debate about the sentencing of sex offenders. A man named Paul Webster 40 your old was sentencet to life in January but was eligible to apply for Parole after six years. His accolplice, Tanya French 19 year old was jailed for five years. They raped a 12 month baby and took potograghs, of the abuse. Paul had been convicted of a serious assault on a 14 year old girl three years befor he was sintenced for the baby rape offences.

1. The offender pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, so the judge was required to reduce the prison sentence by one-third, bringing the tariff down to 12 years.
2. The offender is allowed to apply for parole after serving half of the sentence, bringing it down to six years.
3. The offender is entitled to ask for the time he spent on remand to count towards his sentence and the judge had no grounds to refuse this, bringing it down to five and a bit years.(teachingexpertise.com)

The Debate of Treatment!

Should we give treatment to sex offenders or should we not?

Yes we should because, Juveniles respond very positively to treatment. Psychological counseling is expensive, but not as espensive as prison. Building a new prison cell is about $55,000 it would be around $22,000 a year just to supervised probation. A treatment may cost between $5,000 and $15,000 per year. One year of treatment well cost way less then a year of prison. Some people think its the its good to try to help sex offenders! (find.galegroupe.com)

No we should not give treatment beause it realy doesnt help. 15 percent of convicted sex offenders are caught reoffending after years later, they are driven by sexul interests. Dr. Hanson's research showes various studies had shown that "most treatments dont work very well." All treatments had a modest beneficial effect. Dr. Hanson's found that 12 percent of offendres who got treatment were caught committing new sex crimes. Researchers have found that chemical castration, or using hormonal drugs to curb sexual appetitd can be Problecatice. Some docters see more potential in Antidepressant drugs. Mr. Carlin said "Most of those guys, They're just wating to get released so they can go right back to what they were doing." Thats the reason they fet treatment.

Survy

Should the government reacquire sex offenders to publicly state that they are convected sex offenders to the community in which they live in? Four out of ten said (NO) Sex offenders SHOULD NOT be reacquired to publicly state to the community that they are convected sex offenders. Students also said the parents should be responsible to look up sex offenders that live around their community. Who every wants to know can go to the Internet and find out. People should not get into sex offenders life. Six out of ten said (YES) Sex offenders SHOULD be reacquired to publicly state to the community that they are convected sex offenders. Some students said not everyone knows how to use a computer to find out if sex offenders are living around them. Parents should be allowed to know straight up if their is sex offenders so they can be informed so there kids can be safe. They also said its very easy for a sex offender to hurt a kid on Halloween.
Do you know any girl that has been sexualy assulted? Four out of ten students DONT KNOW anyone that has been raped. Six out of ten KNOW someone that has been raped. I think their are girls in the school that have been raped and they have not done anything about it. No one should be forced to do anything they dont want to do! If a girl gets rape I think they should do something to the person that raped the girl, it does not matter if they are family members.