Hideo Yamada, a lawyer who is an expert in stalking cases. The government is considering mandating the use of GPS monitoring devices among repeat sex offenders as a way of preventing recidivism and alleviating the anxiety of sex crime victims. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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  neverknow2 at 01:52 PM JST - 6th March

  Other countries use a new and experimental way of dealing with these types of people. It's called prison. Sometimes, if the person commits a rime after being released from prison, they spend even longer in prison next time. I know it sounds crazy, but maybe if Japan adopts a similar system, it just may prevent some crimes from actually taking place. Maybe?

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  Valigator at 07:00 AM JST - 7th March

  As much as it may pain the Japanese sensibilities of its citizens, its important you realize that sexual based crimes against children is a recipe for the downfall of its future citizens. In the United States these crimes were treated like dirty little secrets the public refrained from speaking of.That mistake has cost us at least three generations. Japan has prided itself on being a successful society, I highly encourage the Japanese people to grasp the repercussions of sex crimes before the United States did. A whole and healthy society does not use its children as bait for predators to feed from. The Japanese should make the punishments and repercussions of child sexual abuse so horrendous, so horrible that those contemplating such a crime would be more in fear of their own citizens retaliation that the crossover from thought to actions would be quickly dismissed...stop this crime in its tracks now...you will save yourselves and your children many generations of hurt. Encourage your country to extend prison terms, second offenses should be dealt with minimum mandatory 20-30 year sentences...releasing them back onto your streets is the worse thing you can do...Good luck to You..

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  jonobugs at 12:22 PM JST - 12th March

  I'm just assuming that the GPS devices that are being suggested are for released convicts and not a replacement for prison terms.

  I can't imagine that the GPS devices would be all that useful for crime prevention but I imagine that should a crime happen it would definitely aid in solving the crime (through the use of history logs).

  As was stated, there really isn't any useful way to monitor activity properly. I can't imagine some poor person having to monitor the locations of all these people and deciding whether or not they should be in that location.

  That said, if they are able to devise a way to properly implement a GPS device and have it monitored using a computer somewhere, it wouldn't be that difficult to set up a simple computer program that would set off an alarm if that person entered into a 'no go' zone. As for the human rights issue, I think that the minute that a person commits a heinous crime, they just lose some of their rights. Having people aware of where you are for a set period of time is just one measure to regain the trust of society.

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