Talk:Sex offender

What is the neutrality dispute about?

"The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page."

Would somebody please clarify which discussion is relevant? What issues are in dispute? deisenbe (talk) 11:21, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

See the section above this one. CapitalSasha ~ talk 16:28, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

The entry defines the term sex offender without making mention that organizations such as Association For The Treatment Of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) recommend people first language such as “individuals who commit sexual offenses.” See Jasonwasserman (talk) 18:05, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2019

Please remove the adjective "female" when referring to Genitalia Mutilation. [First paragraph of document.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism "Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone..." Michaeltomasch (talk) 14:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

 Not done for not being an appropriate request. However, there was no indication that this was an example of a sex offense, so I simply removed the list item outright. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:19, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Harvey Weinstein?

Surprise surprise! No mention of "convicted sex offender" Harvey Weinstein. Wonder why?? 125.174.218.87 (talk) 15:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Demographics

To the extent that reliable sources are available, it might be good to have a section about demographics. Just browsing through the database local to me, it seems that there is a slight tendency for sex offenders to be non-caucasian, but my casual search suggests the correlation is small. And they seem to be concentrated (again, not a strong correlation) in lower-income metropolitan areas. Indeed, I found a government source confirming this although it suggests that minorities are over-represented in sex offeder registries compared to their actual presence in the population.

Interestingly, I found two sources suggesting a statistically meaningful correlation with religiosity: "a strong tendency for prisoners who declare a religious faith to be serving time for sexual offences" and "religiosity was linked to a higher number of sex offense victims and more convictions for sex offenses. Those sex offenders who reported regular church attendance, a belief in supernatural punishment, and religion as important in their daily lives had more known victims, younger victims, and more convictions for sex offenses..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anachronist (talk • contribs) 02:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

References

Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Forensic Psychology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 August 2022 and 10 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ColleenESullivan (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by ColleenESullivan (talk) 18:14, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Global scope

As it's written, this article is almost exclusively about the United States and doesn't provide a global overview of the subject. A lot of the information here doesn't apply to sex offenders in general. I wonder if the content specific to the United States should be split to Sex offenders in the United States or something like that? My reservation there is that tying the topic to a country like that might create a non-POV title. Pinging Absolutiva. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:56, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

I preferred by adding content for United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Japan and other countries that mentioned about sex offenders worldwide, also I propose split to sex offenders in the United States, does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Absolutiva (talk) 05:31, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

GA Review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Sex offender/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Absolutiva (talk · contribs) 23:05, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: PARAKANYAA (talk · contribs) 02:56, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I am quickfailing this on the grounds that the article has active maintenance tags, particularly the "globalize" tag. I agree with the placement of this tag as this is very United States based which is inappropriate for a broad article.

BROAD - I also doubt this passes the broadness criteria, as this is cited to a fairly small collection of not particularly high quality articles, when this is a very broad topic. This is in addition to individual reports, dubious sources like HuffPost and other news articles which are not good sources for this topic (too specific to individual cases). Generally this is a high level article and should be citing broader sources. Several of the citations are broken. There's also lots of uncited information.

NPOV - Critical Criminology tends to be a fairly fringe area of the field so I would be hesitant in giving sources of that type as much weight as this article currently does, failing NPOV. The "controversy" section makes this worse. I could dig in more to issues I see as I see more the more I look but this requires a lot of change to even approach the GA criteria. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:56, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.