The article makes some very good points, considering its high reoffending rate i always imagined it to be more of a mental disability than a choice to commit a crime anyway. I honestly think someone who wants sexual relations with a child is quite likely sick in some way, of course its a bit different if we are talking a 15 yr old girl and a 17 yr old boy, or a girl slightly under the legal age who pulls a man in a club, but for the 40 year olds snatching kids i think it is definetly a sickness...

I have a friend of a friend on the sexual offenders register because he had naked pictures of a girl in his year at school, just thought i would add this in reference to this part of the article

This sounds as titillatingly vast a number as it is meant to sound - although closer scrutiny shows that it certainly does not mean 30,000 icons of unparalleled evil are out on the loose; among those whose details are kept and lives monitored for ever, a great many are included for nothing more dreadful than slightly under-age, consensual sex.