Problem & Solution Paper Part 1

Problem:

Policy Controversy: Providing community with notification vs. Protecting individual rights of sex offenders

Questions to be researched:

What do we do with sex offeders when they get out of prison?

Where do sex offenders rights begin & end?

Where do rights and saftey concerns begin & end?

Whos rights superseed others?

Topics to be researched:

Megan’s Law

- what is it?

-what are the advantages?

-what are the disadvantages?

-controversy on how society deals with sex offenders

Statistics

Registration

Sources

http://trueslant.com/eilenezimmerman/2010/03/08/what-to-do-with-sex-offenders/

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/folder?sid=e32b9df3-3f8e-47fe-8466-0f7eaeec0398%40sessionmgr10&vid=8&hid=10

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jan/07/childrensservices.crime

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/fight-sex-offenders/story?id=9991709

http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/on-air-should-sex-offenders-be-castrated/

http://redblueamerica.com/topic/2008-03-22/what-should-we-do-with-sex-offenders-1842

http://geekpolitics.com/what-should-we-do-with-sexual-deviants-that-have-served-their-time/

http://articles.cnn.com/2007-04-05/justice/bridge.sex.offenders_1_sexual-offenders-parks-and-other-places-fewer-places?_s=PM:LAW

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-06-miami-sex-offenders_N.htm

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