Protecting the vulnerable? Assessing the constitutionality of the national register for sex offenders in respect of juvenile sex offenders - S v IJ 2013 2 SACR 599 (WCC) and J v National Director of Public Prosecutions 2014 ZACC 13

dc.contributor.authorStevens, G.P. (Geert Philip)
dc.contributor.emailphilip.stevens@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T09:56:16Z
dc.date.available2015-05-29T09:56:16Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractJohnnie is a registered sex offender. When he was eleven he touched his four-year-old half-sister's vagina (over her underwear). A few months later, she performed oral sex on him at his request. Johnnie's mother found out. She called the police and Johnnie spent sixteen months in a residential juvenile sex offender program; where he successfully completed treatment. When he was released, Johnnie's mother wanted nothing to do with him, so he ended up living with his grandmother. Two months after he started a new middle school, someone found Johnnie on the state's internet sex offender registry. Two days later, Johnnie walked into oncoming traffic and told a police officer he wanted to die. He transferred to an alternative school for juvenile delinquents. Even there, the harassment continued. Some of the other boys confronted Johnnie on the school bus, calling him a sex offender and yelling: "You tried to rape your sister!" As a result of anger and depression, Johnnie has twice been admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Not only is Johnnie suicidal, but when he transferred to yet another school and the harassment continued, he told a counsellor that he wanted to kill another student for taunting him. Johnnie knows what he did to his sister was wrong and continues to feel guilty about it. Johnnie has never committed another sex offence. Nevertheless his name, photo, address, and school information continue to appear on the internet registry where they will likely remain for the rest of his life.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.htmlen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationStevens, GP 2014, 'Protecting the vulnerable? Assessing the constitutionality of the national register for sex offenders in respect of juvenile sex offenders - S v IJ 2013 2 SACR 599 (WCC) and J v National Director of Public Prosecutions 2014 ZACC 13', Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 2779-2803.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1727-3781
dc.identifier.other10.4314/pelj.v17i6.15
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/45355
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherNorth West University, Faculty of Lawen_ZA
dc.rightsNorth West University, Faculty of Lawen_ZA
dc.subjectConstitutionalityen_ZA
dc.subjectChild sex offendersen_ZA
dc.subjectSex offender against childrenen_ZA
dc.subjectJuvenile sex offendersen_ZA
dc.subjectNational Register of Sex Offendersen_ZA
dc.titleProtecting the vulnerable? Assessing the constitutionality of the national register for sex offenders in respect of juvenile sex offenders - S v IJ 2013 2 SACR 599 (WCC) and J v National Director of Public Prosecutions 2014 ZACC 13en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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