Yesterday, I saw the article related to punishment of sexual criminals. People were trying to open their informations to the public. Of course, there are other people who don’t agree with it due to the matters of human right. I fully understand the both sides.
If I am a victim or family members of victims, I could ask poilce to publicize their history for them not to commit that kind of crime again. However, what about criminals? Some of them might want to live a new life. What if their publicized criminal records make them unable to live normal lives? (This doesn’t apply to serial criminals) This problem is the crash of two moral values. One is the protection of privacy. The other is protection of citizens from dangerous crime.
I don’t think opening informaions is a good idea. I am not saying that the human rights of criminals are first but it will not going to work. Do you think sexual assault and rapes will disappear if we let the public who sexual ciminals are? No, I don’t think so. Some people will still commit crimes. Moreover, there could be more crimes. Maybe innocent citizens would try to judge criminals be themselves. What are you gonna say about this problem?
I agree with your idea that publicizing information of sexual criminal is not a good idea for decreasing a rete of sexual crime. However, what about criminals who commit same crime agian? And what about criminals who rape children. I don’t agree with you in those cases and I think their information should be shown to public to prevent further crime.
An open period of information can be discussed anyway. There is one case that one criminal who commit sexual crime again toward child got sentenced 7 years in prison and 5 years of open period of his information.
Here’s video clip of that.
http://media.daum.net/society/others/view.html?cateid=1067&newsid=20080411084523424&cp=imbc