What makes a "sex crime" worse than a roughly equivalent ordinary crime that doesn't

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CAustin II

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involve sex? An interesting scenario was brought up to me recently that made me pause over the idea of 'sex crimes,' 'registered sex offenders,' and other such elements of our legal system.

Suppose you have two neighbors: one is a woman who was flashing people for beads at Mardi Gras, who drunkenly flashed an audience that included teenagers. The other is an intensely schizophrenic woman whose pharmacy messed up her meds once, after which she rampaged around her previous neighborhood with knife for a while, stabbing and injuring several neighbors and their pets - but who got off with a reduced sentence and treatment in an insanity plea helped by the fact that her mismedication was not her fault.

You know, by law, about the Mardi Gras woman, because sex offender registries force her to inform her neighbors about her crimes. As for the stabby mismedicated woman with the unreliable pharmacy, her past is her business. Something strikes me as strange priorities here.


So, the question is, does a crime automatically become worse (and necessitate public announcement) when it involves naughty bits? Should any past crime that involves naughty bits be public information, and should any past crime that doesn't be a matter of the former criminal's privacy?
 
Any past crime of a sexual nature should of course be public information in a case where it was harming or dangerous to another human being, an example being rape. In the case of a woman flashing in the above scenario, it should not necessarily be public. In that case, knowing that she has done this previously will not help you to stay safe whereas knowing that a certain man raped a woman once would naturally prevent a woman becoming close to him.

Any crime that is not of a sexual nature should be known in cases where that person could be of danger to others, examples being murder or theft of belongings etc... In the case of mis-medication, it still should be public information in order to let people know that a relapse may occur due to circumstances changing. That is not to say that attitudes should be changed to those with mental illness but that we should be aware of the dangers associated with said illness in order to protect ourselves an by extension the person him/herself.
 
I think it reflects men's latent chivalry and urge to protect the modesty of "ladies".

Other thing is, the sexual offense committed on a woman devalued her considerably in the society, in past. It does in middle east and some
Asian countries. So, the retribution factor was involved more than justice.

It also reflects society's horror because the thing that is used for recreation and procreation, was used to assault.

But, nowadays, sex crime is the biggest weapon against men. It ruins reputation forever.
 
I guess me, my sister, and a few of my mommy friends are all sex offenders because there may have been an unintentional nipple flash here or there while breast feeding our children.
It stupid to call exposed breasts a sex crime. If that's a crime than every time I see a fat chick in tight pants with a camel toe, that should be a sex crime too!
Violent crimes of any nature SHOULD be revealed to those who must live in close proximity to such people.
 
because a sex crime involves a mental issue that caused the drive to the crime, as opposed to the 20 different reasons that stabby may have stabbed. granted, the specific crime may put stabby in a catatgory similar in social disability as the sex offender, and maybe they should make him go around to the neighbors and report to them that when he gets drunk, he is dangerous and won't ever remember it, but there are other cases of stabbing that put the stabber in a more chaotic motivation as opposed to the 100% of sex criminals (excluding statory where the couple REALLY ws in love and sumpin messed up happened and one got in trouble cause of the age difference) have mental problems that motivates them to these crimes and that isn't going to just clear up like a mild achne case. It will fester and get worse.
 
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