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bacasper
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 Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
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| (b) Released or not pedophiles shouldn't be given a position of power and influence or be around children. |
I disagree with this. |
Yes, I also disagree with this.
According to the US Dept. of Justice:
| Bureau of Justice Statistics wrote: |
| Even among child molesters, about 18 percent had been arrested for similar offenses before, and only 3.3 percent of those released in 1994 were arrested again for a crime against a child. |
A Wyoming study showed a re-offense rate of 4-5%, and so did this one from Minnesota with five-year follow-up.
In Ohio, the figure was 8% after ten years.
Demonization and ostracism are counterproductive. The best strategy is reintegration into the community. |
If you were one of those children who was attacked by a former offender say in Ohio, I don't think it would be much consolation to say..."Well the recidivism rate is only 8%..."
Not only that but this article http://www.csom.org/pubs/recidsexof.html says that the number of offenses are greatly underreported...up to 2.4 times the number officially reported. |
If you were unable to find a job or place to live after serving five years in prison because when you were 19 you and your girlfriend had sex a few weeks before she became legal at 16, and were then shot dead in your home by a guy who found your name and address on an online registry (as happened to William Elliot of Maine a couple of years back), it would be little consolation to you that some teen has been prevented from having sex even though 97% of the sex offenders won't commit another sex offense against a minor.
Not only that, this study from Criminology says that criminal victimization tends to be overreported. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| (b) Released or not pedophiles shouldn't be given a position of power and influence or be around children. |
I disagree with this. |
Yes, I also disagree with this.
According to the US Dept. of Justice:
| Bureau of Justice Statistics wrote: |
| Even among child molesters, about 18 percent had been arrested for similar offenses before, and only 3.3 percent of those released in 1994 were arrested again for a crime against a child. |
A Wyoming study showed a re-offense rate of 4-5%, and so did this one from Minnesota with five-year follow-up.
In Ohio, the figure was 8% after ten years.
Demonization and ostracism are counterproductive. The best strategy is reintegration into the community. |
If you were one of those children who was attacked by a former offender say in Ohio, I don't think it would be much consolation to say..."Well the recidivism rate is only 8%..."
Not only that but this article http://www.csom.org/pubs/recidsexof.html says that the number of offenses are greatly underreported...up to 2.4 times the number officially reported. |
If you were unable to find a job or place to live after serving five years in prison because when you were 19 you and your girlfriend had sex a few weeks before she became legal at 16, and were then shot dead in your home by a guy who found your name and address on an online registry (as happened to William Elliot of Maine a couple of years back), it would be little consolation to you that some teen has been prevented from having sex even though 97% of the sex offenders won't commit another sex offense against a minor.
Not only that, this study from Criminology says that criminal victimization tends to be overreported. |
Care to provide a site that is able to send a "cookie" to my browser? Can't open this one. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:14 am Post subject: "Tax scofflaw presiding over tax changes." |
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"Tax scofflaw presiding over tax changes."
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Rangel: a popular lawmaker with ethics issues
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer � 1 hr 1 min ago
WASHINGTON � Rep. Charlie Rangel, the latest congressional titan with ethics problems, is described by a longtime House colleague as the guy who would make sure everyone put on oxygen masks during a flight emergency, but would have to be told to put on his own.
If Rep. Gary Ackerman's characterization fits the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, then Rangel's inattention to his ethical conduct has reached epic proportions.
The person most in charge of writing the nation's tax laws neglected to pay taxes on rental income from his vacation villa in the Dominican Republic. He failed to report assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars on his annual disclosure forms, including a hard-to-miss credit union account worth up to $500,000. And those are only some of his lapses. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090920/ap_on_go_co/us_charlie_rangel_s_ethics_1
Another evil fascist-socialist who leads the effort to steal from the American poor and middle class, lines his own pockets with the stolen funds and the pelf of corruption, and doesn't even pay his own taxes. |
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