Society along with the policy producers have been struggling for a long time in order to find operative ways using which they could protect the general public from the sexual predators roaming the streets. To put simply a sex offender any person who has been successfully convicted of the following sexual offense crimes. These include:
- Sexual conduct with a minor
- Sexual assault
- Sexual assault of spouse
- Molestation of a child
- Continuous sexual abuse of a child
- Infamous crimes against nature
- Lewd and lascivious acts
- Indecent exposure and public sexual indecency
- Taking a child for the purpose of prostitution
- Sexual exploitation of a minor
- Incest
- Kidnapping, aggravated assault, murder, unlawful imprisonment, and burglary (when the offense includes evidence of sexual motivation)
- Failure to register as a sex offender
- Violation of Sex Offender Registration statutes
Sex Offenses: State vs. Federal Law
Most sexual offenses which involve a criminal sexual conduct falls in the jurisdiction of the state law, however the federal law also comprises of various crimes sexual in nature. These offenses can be found in the Title 18 of the United States Code.
Numerous of these federal offenses explicitly apply to all the sexual offenses which have been committed in the regional jurisdiction of the United States of America or one of the federal prisons. Other crimes comprise of all those sex offenders who have crossed the state or the international borders in order to commit, or due to the commission, of performing a sexual offense.
For instance, 18 U.S.C. section 2251 makes it unlawful to knowingly facsimile, publish, or cause to be made, “any notice or advertisement seeking or offering to receive, exchange, buy, produce, display, distribute, or reproduce any visual depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. This statute also applies when such person knows that such notice or advertisement will be, or has been, transported in interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer.”
Examples of Federal Sexual Offenses
How Does a Person Become a Sex Offender
Federal sexual offense comprise of the following
- Selling or buying of children (Section 2251A(a)(b))
- Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, including both distribution and receipt of visual depictions in books, magazines, periodicals, films, and videotapes (Section 2252)
- Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography (Section 2252A)
- Production of sexually explicit depictions of a minor for importation into the United States (Section 2260)
- Transporting an individual in interstate or foreign commerce with the intent that the individual engage in prostitution or other illegal sexual activity (Section 2421)
- Transportation of minors in interstate or foreign commerce, with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (Section 2423(a))
- Interstate or foreign travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile (Section 2423(b))
- Use of interstate facilities to transmit information about an individual under the age of 16, with “the intent to entice, encourage, offer, or solicit that minor to engage in any sexual activity that can be charged as a criminal offense.” (Section 2425)