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The Sex Offender Registry and Idealism Daigle 1 RUNNINGHEAD: THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY AND The Sex Offender Registry and Idealism Ricky Daigle Nipissing University
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Daigle 1
RUNNINGHEAD: THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY AND
The Sex Offender Registry and Idealism
Ricky Daigle
Nipissing University
In fulfillment of the requirements for CRJS 4917
Prof. Carson Fougere
Due Date: March 19, 2008
Daigle 2
The National and Provincial Sex Offender Registries
Many know the story of Christopher Stephenson; the little eleven year old boy who was molested and murdered by a pedophile that had a long list of previous sexual crimes (Macleans, 2008). A Coroner's Inquest would recommend (amongst many other things) that Parliament create an electronic sex offender registry database, which soon led to legislation enacted by the Harris Conservative Government, in collaboration with the Stephenson family, which passed in 2001 under the name "Christopher's Law" (Macleans, 2008). In fact, Premier Harris was so pleased with the Act and registry database that he offered the technology to the federal government to create its own registry (Macleans, 2008). The federal government would decline though, insisting that CPIC was sufficient to track down criminals (Macleans, 2008). One year later on Feb 2002, after much pressure from officials, police and victim groups, the Liberal government (in a meeting that was thought to be for official amendments to CPIC) announced that they were creating a national sex offender registry and database to be maintained by the RCMP(Macleans, 2008). They failed to enact the first bill in the later part of the year but after reintroduction in 2004, the bill finally passed and the scrutiny began (Macleans, 2008). The research provided here focuses not on the history of national sex offender registry database as set out in the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, rather on the strengths and weaknesses of the...
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