Stop creating laws that increase sex crimes

We can create laws that reduce new sex crimes and future victims, but first we must understand the dynamics of sexual offending. These laws need to be based on evidence based facts and scientific studies, not personal uncorroborated believes, emotions, and the need for votes.

Tennessee's proposed law to sentence offenders who commit child rape to the death penalty will not reduce new sex crimes and could actually have the unintended effect of causing more victims not to report the crimes resulting in offenders going totally unpunished!

Unfortunately, like most state laws dealing with sexual offenders this law is based on emotion, grandstanding, and lack of subject knowledge. For instance, scientific studies show that most offenders do not consider the consequences of the crime prior to committing such. This is supported by the fact that states that have the death penalty for first degree murder and state that do not have it have similar homicide rates. The severity of the sentence does not reduce new sex crimes.

Further, scientific studies show that sex crimes often go unreported in cases involving a child because the victim doesn't want the offender punished. They just want them to stop. The reason for that is that over 90% of child sex crimes are committed by a person the child knows, like a family member or friend. Hence, the more severe the punishment the less likely it is that the victim will report the crime.

Lastly, this bill will actually increase the number of victims! Studies shown that the longer it takes to catch the offender once they start offending the more victims they will have. Now, after they are caught and publicly humiliated, they rarely reoffend. Hence, with less victims reporting these crimes will result in sex offender committing more crimes against more victims - not less!

Thus, since this bill will not reduce new sex crimes is there even a need for it? Especially, when recently enacted laws sentence such offenders to life in prison, separated from society. And if by some chance these offenders are released at some point their risk of reoffending is about 7.7%. After considering the dynamics of the crime, scientific studies, and facts it's clear that this bill is unnecessary, unconstitutional, anti-Christian, and will result in less sex crimes being report, more sex offenders going unpunished, and an increase in victims.

If this is not enough, this bill will cost the state and taxpayers more money. In that, those facing the death penalty get two attorneys instead of one, and have a more stringent post-conviction review than other sentences... In other words, this bill needs to be STOPPED. For once let's focus on laws that will actually reduce new sex crimes.