viernes, marzo 31, 2006

Sex Offender Registry

Go to this link and enter your street address...it will show a "house".
In the middle of the map you will see a house symbol - that's your house.

All the little colored boxes are registered Sex Offenders...

Click on them and you get a, name, address & picture of the person along
with his/her crime... pretty amazing and scary...it shows you where they
live in proximity to your home and the local schools.

10 comentarios:

cyberdos dijo...

What do you think? A violation of privacy?

Que ustedes creen? Violacion de privacidad?

cyberdos dijo...

problem is that you cannot criminalize a tendency.

I'm not totally against the registry but I do see its flaws.

perezpuig dijo...

While i think that the punishment for sex offenders should be castration (lets see who will perform these acts knowing that their precious member will get cut off), i became intrigued with the mug shots...all of them fit the stereotypical view of what a sex offender should look like...For example, in my area, Benjamin Martinez tried to rape a 6 yr old girl, Gennaro Pacifico managed to rape a girl (albeit a 3rd degree rape) and young Crespin Mejia sodomized a 9 yr old girl. Almost all were minorities, and if white, un-atractive and socially akward...hmm...aren't these the type of people that are marginalized, deemened undesireable by society?
Then they commit the crime, serve jail time and then anyone can go to their house and give them a good paliza. And our children are protected.
Who knows, maybe it is all a result of the sex offenders' genetic make up.

So as of now, with my limited study of the sociological, biological and historical data regarding sex offenders, i believe castration should be the option; otherwise, social norms will have to change, genetic manipulation resolved and perhaps history should be taught properly at schools.
At least i think these are some of the issues that need to be studied before assuming that surveillance will resolve the problem...

perezpuig dijo...

I used the term castration as an exaggeration.

perezpuig dijo...

orlando, con calma.
mi uso de la palabra "castration" no es un relajo, es parte integral del escrito. estoy diciendo (infiriendo, y no muy claramente basada en tu reaccion) que quitarle el miembro a alguien o crear un website que indique donde se encuentran los "sex offenders" son un parcho al problema. Y que antes de decidir si es apropriado o no el uso del website, hay otros factores mas importantes que se deberian estudiar.
no venga a acusarme que yo tomo esto de relajo, porque no es asi.

cyberdos dijo...

Lo que sucede es que cuando dices:
"While i think that the punishment for sex offenders should be castration"

si no lo estas diciendo de forma sarcastica, entonces me gustaria ver como vas a castrar a una mujer.

Not all sex offenders are men.

y es bueno el punto de Orlando de que no solo con el pene se viola sexualmente a una persona.

perezpuig dijo...

si era de forma sarcastica...de ahora en adelante pondre sarc. luego del texto.
Ej. [sarc]

And yes, definitely not all sex offenders are men...me vienen a la mente los casos recientes de las dos maestras...tambien estaba leyendo siguiente: It is estimated in the United States that 3-10% of all serious sexual offenses are female-female in nature. Researchers in the counseling professions believe that female-on-female sexual offenses are significantly under-reported.
Mas sobre female to male rape:
In addition, since rape by females is much less well known, the male victims often find little support from rape crisis counselors. Since the incidence of female-on-male rape is on record at much higher rates (31% compared to 10%) in Canada, it is likely being substantially under-reported in the US.

y si, tambien estoy de acuerdo que no solo con el pene se viola a una persona.

cyberdos dijo...

muy bien. asi me gustan las mujeres.

si, papi. no, papi, lo que tu digas, papi.

LOL!...oh, me se olvido [sarc] ;)

perezpuig dijo...

i agree with your point and orlando's, which i think are pretty obvious points regarding sexual offense [not sarc]. Even obvious to women who say "lo que tu digas papi" [sarc].


TGIF!

cyberdos dijo...

estas mujeres se creen que son chistosas.