Sex Offenders Registration Law

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Introduction

Sex offenders are the people that have performed a sex crime, like sexual abuse, sexual harassment and in come cases the crime can even be urinating at public places. The regulations for sex offenders differ from state to state within United States of America. Sex offenders are subject to notify the authorities about their current information after every certain period of time, which can vary from state to state regulations and even from the level of sex offense committed. The rules and regulations for sex offenders are too strict as on a general basis, which means that no matter which level of sex offense has been committed, the rules and regulations are going to be equally strict for the sex offender. Many a times the offense itself is not as severe as the restrictions that it imposes on the person, as it is a type of crime, the severity of implication of which are not judged on the act but are rather judged on the type of the crime. The following paper evaluates that if the registration laws for sex offenders should be changed or not.

There are three level of sex offenders under which a sex offender is characterized or registered on the basis of the severity of its crime, each of these are known as sex offender tier 1, sex offender tier 2 and sex offender tier 3. The registration under any one of this tier's causes the individual to be subject to be lawfully called as a “sex offender”.

The registrations under the sex offense act can be made even if a person is caught urinating at a public place, this shows that the severity of the issue does not actually count here but instead the act itself is counted, irrespective of what the reason or intention behind it was. As of this rule for the registration of a sex offender, there have been many cases of people that have found to be registered as “sex offenders” under the US Law court of justice, where as there intent of crime and the crime in itself is not by any way liable for such a severe punishment or such a severe restrictive attitude, while potentially letting the actual one's let out lose who actually deserve to be convicted for sex offences (Lees et.al, 2006).

Discussion

According to Sex offender registration act (SORNA), a sex offender is still liable to report to the respective public department or departments, in certain cases, for many years even after the completion of his/her imprisonment or in other words even after the clearance of his/her charges. As according to SORNA, this and many more such acts including the restriction of staying close to a certain area limit of children and such other restrictions have been imposed on those who have been registered as sex offenders, as of the severity of the sex offense crime in which they were reportedly involved in their current or past records.

Moreover, it is required for all ...