Registering Sex Offenders

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A brief review of the way the criminal justice system " and society at large " addresses the problem of sex offenders. It focuses on the issue of the right to register sexual offenders and for the public to have access to this kind of information.

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"Most of us have very little direct exposure to the criminal justice system. We see cops and robbers on television programs and in the movies, perhaps have to interact with the police ourselves when we get a speeding ticket or when our house is robbed. These encounters are likely to leave us with the impression that the system is generally a just one, one in which the guilty are in fact punished sufficiently but not overly for the crimes that they have committed while the innocent are set free. However, in reality the nature of justice is often far more ambiguous and complex than the picture presented on television would suggest: The borders of guilt and innocence " of crime and punishment " are far greyer than many of us would like to believe."

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