Talk:Sex offender registration

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You can also search for registered sex offenders in your area. The registry allows you to search by name, address, city, state, or zip code.

For the general public, this is true in some locations. In other locations, the police have access to sex offender registration information but the general public does not. Seksinfo 15:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Is there a source for that quote at the end? It sounds implausible (ludicrous). Of course, some sex offenders pick up stranger victims in public. I have no idea if so-called 'predator-free zones' are a realistic way to address that, but the fact is that kidnapping and sex offenses are not mutually exclusive at all. 24.131.12.228 01:08, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] proposed merge

I'm OK with merging the two articles. The material in this article needs some cleaning. Herostratus 05:46, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

It should be either expanded to include non-US material or merged. I favor expansion but merge is better than leaving it alone. Dfpc 17:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Even better - collect all articles that deal with sexual and violent offender registration together into one category, then create a "base" article on offender registration and individual articles that are topic-specific. See the links in the See Also section for a partial list of affected articles. Dfpc 19:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Merging articles makes sense when one or both or the related articles are relatively short. But as I have noticed, when an article gets long, it tends to be split, with conspicuous links between them. Both these articles are quite long, and therefore belong separate. Of course, there is always room for expanding or otherwise improving any article. Shaliya waya 13:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Additional international material needed

I've recently added info about Canada's National Sex Offender Registry, but I'd like to see submissions concerning the NSORs in Australia, Great Britain, and Ireland. Further, the information that has already been posted should clarify which country's SORs the material is referring to. For example, only the USA has SORs that are searchable on the Internet. Canuck55 00:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

The section Civil/Constitutional Rights Argument seems to be heavily biased. The sentence here I think best exemplifies it:

"Poltics and fear-mongering play heavily into the sex offender argument and the result is bad laws being passed though the intentions were noble."

Stuff like the above are too subjective to be proferred by an encyclopedia article as fact. Cornince 03:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

yes that should be removed, but that was probably written because of the lack of a criticism section 216.113.96.40 01:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Significant cleanup April 26, 2007, more work to be done

Added sections, tags, links, and some content. Still needs supporting links and more international content. Dfpc 22:25, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] critism of expansion of sex offender registration laws

The article just barely touches of the controversy of legislatures expanding the criteria for who must register as a sex offender. Some states have expanded the criteria for who must register as a sex offender in such as way as to cause teens convicted of having sex with other teens or people cited for crimes not involving children to have to register as sex offender thus labeling them as dangers to children. Thus some have criticized the expansion of said laws and urged that crimes sex crimes not involving children be exempt from registration such as teen on teen sex, someone of college age convicted of having sex with their 17 year old girlfriend, people busted for public urination or a prank of flashing/public nudity. This article could use more information on the controversy. I did have some links to interesting newspaper articles on the subject which I will try to locate. If I can locate them I will see about adding something on the issue to the article. --Cab88 12:42, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


Sources source: http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0907/us0907web.pdf Article is POV, but summarizes many things related to this with references. References are very useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.116.38 (talk) 18:50, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] teenage boys v/s girls

taking out the following statement

Teenage girls are charged with "sexual delinquency" more often than teenage boys are.[1]

The source is a paper on an obviously POV website of "Association of Libertarian Feminists" and the paper says exactly this much about the subject.

"Sexual delinquency" charges are brought against young girls far more often than against boys.

It doesn't have any statistical evidence or even a pointer to a particular reference. There is a list of reference readings of about 5-6 publications, which have equally POV titles and no URLs to go and read the text. If someone finds the source statistics for this statement, then he/she should put this statement back in with the better citation, hopefully making it more specific. As of my current knowledge, the only way it can go in is with a prelude like ... "A paper published by the Association of Libertarian Feminists claims that..." which then becomes rather useless for the article. --Spundun (talk) 03:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] demographics of sex offenders.

Took out the following statement from Sex offender registration#Effectiveness_and_Consequences

Although female sex offenders are often sensationalized in the news media, the vast majority of sex offenders registered are male.

The statement is unrelated to the section. The original poster(an IP address) of the text intended it as a discussion of the demographics of the offenders and also wrote it in a POV maner without citation here. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex_offender_registration&diff=20177433&oldid=17245344

Although a couple of women sex offenders have been sensationalized in the news lately, the vast majority of sex offenders registered are men (about 99%). Various races in various neighborhoods are represented by the registered offenders in the United States including blacks, whites, and Hispanics, but hardly any Arabians and very few Asians.

--Spundun (talk) 03:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)