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Survey name: Sex Offender Registration
Poll Release: August 2007 Week #2

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Results:

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Registration has nothing to do with stopping future or present predators

The most serious sex offenders will repeat offend. The registration only makes it easier for the informed person to take actions to prevent their loved ones from becoming a victim.

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The idea behind registration is to deter future offenders but to protect the public from KNOWN offenders

Sex offenders suffer from a sickness that can only be prevented thru isolated confinement.

The "drive" to offend will eventually take over in most offenders and they will do it again. Registration may only cause them to be more cautious about where they offend.

Registration will not stop a future offender but it will help educate the public as to who and what is living in their neighborhood and hopefully reduce the number of victims available to the predator.

This is an illness that can not be cured. I don't think the registration will stop them from reoffending but it will at least provide the interested public with information about where they are claiming to live. This is important when deciding where to purchase a house or raise your kids. If nothing else it will create a perception to them that someone is watching them and give the interested public the perception that someone is watching the sex offenders.

Many of the people I see during registration have never been taught about actions causing reactions and/or consequences.

because as law enforcement professionals know, most victims know their offenders so it can happen right in the home.

it won't stop their criminal behavior, only provide a tool for potential victims to be better aware.

The act of completing a document will not impede the impulse to violate

The majority of the population still see a sex offender as a stranger. Statistics show the majority of sex offenders knew their victim eg. a relative, a stepchild, a grandchild, a neighbor etc. Even when an individual is a registered sex offender, the peolpe who "know' him don't beleive the offendrer committed the crime or if he did would not commit a future crime and therefore allow the offender around new potential victims.

Registration is a community and law enforcement tool for tracking. Sex Offedners cannot be cured, therefore registration is not a deterrent.

The registry is full of sex offenders and more names are being added to it almost every day. This goes to show that it is not having any effect on stopping future sex offenders.

Registration probably won't stop sex offenders,but it will deter them and it will help lawenforcement track them and will give the public knowledge of the perverts.

It's better than nothing. Only keeping them in prison will stop many of the offenders.

The registration of sex offenders will not stop them from committing future crimes, but it will aid in the investigation of the crimes by providing possible suspects.

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