Sex Crimes.

Sex crimes, also defined as an illegal sexual act, activity, or behavior are somewhat common around the United States.

Sex crimes usually emerge when there involves a young woman and an older man, or an older woman and a younger male. There is a special unit for these sorts of crimes dealing with rape and murder or just the kidnapping of a younger child called the “Sex Crimes Unit”. This unit protects and serves justice for the greater good of the young and abused. All in all, "Michigan has the third largest sex offender registry in the nation—at least it did in 2004 when there were 33,000 people. Today there are 43,964". (Quoted Wendy, Member of the law professor blogs network). Not all Sex crimes are caused by adults; some are actually caused by minors. Wendy also states, if a youth is convicted or pleads to criminal sexual assault in the first or second degree, he or she will end up on the public sex offender registry list for 25 years, or even for life. There are rates for which these crimes happen, surprisingly 22% of sex crimes are committed by traveling immigrants. Women are often charged with two types of Sex crimes, Violent (62%) and Non-violent (42%).

There are various comments made about sex offenders made on websites, posted in blogs, and publicly discussed, which brings me to an exclusive question. "Should Sex offenders have the same rights as they did before they were sentenced to prison or should they be limited to there freedom?"  

A numerous amount of people stated that  sex offender is someone who can be rehabilitated and renewed from there old ways, A sex offender is not always a sex offender, he/she is just labeled as one and should receive the same freedom as the people walking on the streets today. While on the other hand, there is the opposing side that stated some very harsh comments about what sex offenders should really receive but same equal freedom is out of the question. A blogger by the username of J Stated a rather harsh comment saying: "I think sex offenders should be castrated with a butter knife", while an Unknown blogger stated: "This system is so screwed up, put them back on the streets and their right back at it.

In my opinion I think that sex offenders should receive limited rights once released from prison. Nothing can change the fact that they are already entered in the system as a sex offender, so the outcomes can never be predicted. Some of the harsh statements were also true, once you put a sex offender out on the streets their right back to their M.O. So the limited contact they have with underage girls or underage guys will help rehabilitate the person's mind. Programs could also be a good source of help and limited time around minors under the age of 17.

If I were to interview regular everyday people on this topic I would ask: -How do you feel about former sex offenders roaming the streets freely? –Do you think a rehabilitated sex offender would go back to his/ her old actions if they had the opportunity? – Do you believe sex offenders should be chased out of their homes if there crime was committed 20 or more years ago? _If you were the Sex Offender and you were being portrayed all your life as nothing but a rapist how would you feel? Would your opinion change?

The outcome of the situation might be as harsh as some of the comments people have said before, "Sex offenders deserve nothing but a jail cell and a post card waving goodbye to their life. I believe that in the future these comments and statements can become helpful in the eyes of officials so that they may plan a way for offenders to have time to rehabilitate themselves and try to prevent them from being local targets on the streets.