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many states and the federal government have passed sexually violent predator civil commitment laws (svp laws). the basis of these laws is to protect vulnerable citizens, or exercise the power, and to restrain violent individuals, or exercise the state's power.

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These laws are designed to protect weak citizens, or to use the parens patriae power, and to deter violent people, or to use the state's police power.

What is sexually violent predator civil commitment laws (svp laws) ?

The goal of sexually violent predator (SVP) laws is to identify a small number of sexual offenders who are incarcerated and who pose a serious risk to the public if they are ever freed. After serving their prison sentences, these rules provide the indefinite civil psychiatric commitment of sex offenders.

Every time a person is found guilty of a sexually violent offense in Pennsylvania, the court is required to order a Sexually Violent Predator assessment of that person by the SOAB. A Sexually Violent Predator is a sex offender who has "a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses."

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