How Do We End Sexual Violence?
For this edition, Lyra Walsh Fuchs spoke to Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners, the authors of The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso).
There are nearly a million people on the sex offender registry, a number that has increased alongside rising rates of incarceration in the United States—even as reported rates of sexual violence have been falling since 1993. Children as young as nine years old are on the registry. Depending on the state, registrants are held on the list for as long as ten years to life; while they are on the registry, they are restricted in where they can live, work, and walk. Legally, they are in a category all of their own. Florida’s 2018 Amendment 4, for example, which enfranchised those with felony convictions (before it was neutralized by a Republican-led law declaring that their hefty court debts must be paid off first) excluded those with sex offense and murder convictions from the start. And at least 5,000 people convicted of sex offenses are imprisoned indefinitely in mental health facilities through “civil commitment,” even after they have completed their criminal sentences.
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I sent an email to obe of thre book’s authors because I want to know more about their take on this “movement” of ours to reform the registry.
Who exactly are they speaking of whern they reger to the “registrants’ rights movement?
Some of the statements made made me scratch my head.
First you have to define “sexual violence”.
The only way to get rid of sexual violence between humans is to get rid of the human race but you will be left with animal upon animal sexual violence.
Getting to the topic of violence in general. If you get rid of humans, violence will continue among all of the other animals. A lion or shark will continue to be violent every time they feed until they learn the health benefits of going vegan.
“Ending sexual violence” is a phrase used by feminists to raise money and drum up support.
I’m going to go off on a limb, but I’m willing to be the sacrificial lamb. What about stopping the cycle of abuse in families? If someone grew up in a dysfunctional family and abuse is all they know, why not give them options to better themselves? I know violence will continue because you can’t legislate people to change their hearts or actions. Right now I know society wants to make lifetime victims and abusers while Turing a blind eye to the causes.
I missed the Dr. Phil’s show. Is there any way you can send me a copy of it? I would appreciate it very much. Thank You.
It airs this coming Monday
There is no such thing as ending sexual offenses or any other crime. Why? Because the heart is desperately wicked above all things upon the earth. Every person would have to die. People is got to want to do right.
So how about discussing the issue of the case in the Tampa Bay Area where the judge said that if the fine wasn’t paid yet, you don’t go on the registry until you “complete your sentence” Would you be barred from arguing the same if you try to get removed now?