Jaycee Dugard's Memoir 'A Stolen Life'

Jaycee Dugard's memoir A Stolen Life describes the intimate details of her kidnapping, sexual abuse and 18 years spent as a hostage. Jaycee is stuck in a new world where her abductor, Phillip, uses coercion techniques to make Jaycee dependent on him. Although he locks Jaycee up in a room for 18 years, Philip brought her food once a day and when he came to her he treated her with kindness, at first. Phillip soon begins to sexually abuse Jaycee. Jaycee is graphic with her descriptions of what Philip did to her. Jaycee was still a child, so she depended upon Philip although he was her abuser. In the 18 years that Jaycee lived with Phillip and his wife Nancy, she had two daughters. In this book we are taken inside the mind of a young girl, whose

This shows the usefulness in this law and how it is an improvement that has been made by the American Judicial System. Considering the way that many searches for missing children and adults have been sped up by this law, it is evident that creating Megan’s law was a helpful and convenient movement. Since enacting Megan’s law, there has been many cases similar to this, where the offender was already on the list for previous conviction, making the process easier and faster. In the book Sexual Violence, Louise Gerdes talks about how sex offender laws should be consistent country wide. “We must have stiff-state and I'll tease for these crimes. I've told law enforcement that where state laws are more aggressive, it should be a state-level case. If the federal law put a pedophile behind bars for longer, it should be a federal case” (Gerdes 51). Penalties are stronger and more harsh, there appears to be lower rates of crimes. With this information it shows the states are cracking down on the sex offenders and predators, and are more successful in prevention. This proves that it is necessary to move these same laws into all of the 50 states, in order to ensure everyone’s safety. Keeping pedophiles behind bars for longer would ensure that they may have truly reformed their ways, also keeping tabs on them as they get out through their probation officers. In the biography The Lost Girls,

Louise Gerdes’ book presents a collection of speeches, personal reflections, and essays that discuss sexual violence. “Tracking convicted pedophiles is necessary to help law enforcement protect children from these predators with a tracking device which will alert authorities if a convicted sex offender is near a school or any other prohibited area” (Gerdes 157). Gerdes explains how much safer it would be if necessary precautions were taken, which would be a big step in the right direction regarding the prevention of sexual assault and rape. One might say a tracking device is a little excessive to be mandated to wear at all times; but these criminals should have thought about that before they committed the unspeakable acts that they've been prosecuted for. Always being able to know the exact whereabouts of sex offenders would be extremely helpful to authorities because while that sex offender is getting closer and closer to that elementary school, police will already be in pursuit and stop the potential sex offender in his/her tracks. Erin Merryn’s memoir is about how her life was transformed on the night she was sexually abused by her cousin, someone she loved and trusted.”I thought when the abuse stopped I could move on with my life. Instead I am still running from Brian. The only difference is now I am running from him in my dreams” (Merryn 49). Merryn is so overtaken by her abuser that even