Our Best Defense
In May of 1997, President Bill Clinton signed the Jacob Wetteriing Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act. This law arose from New Jersey’s Megan’s Law that came about after seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who was living in her neighborhood. This federal law mandates that released sex offenders must register as such with local law enforcement. The state will be responsible for maintaining a data bank of the offenders, annual re-registration, and information regarding registered sex offenders will be released as deemed necessary to protect the public. Sex offender registration and notification laws are necessary and just. Relapsing into criminal behavior rates for sex offenders are alarmingly high. Studies conducted in Washington State discovered that thirteen percent of adult offenders and twelve percent of juvenile offenders were rearrested for sex crimes within seven years (Wurtele and Miller-Perrin 15). Likewise, a California study showed that nearly twenty percent of adult offenders commit another sex crime within fifteen years. (Bernstein 24). Supporters of these laws feel that that alone is reason enough to have th
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