Such criminals, the advisory continued, "commit crimes such as murder, kidnapping, carjacking, armed robbery, rapes, and other aggravated assaults".
He had received a 25- to 40-year sentence after being convicted of raping, carjacking, kidnapping and robbing a woman in 1996.
She was charged with carjacking and assault.
DNA recovered in a 1998 carjacking and rape case in Houston matched that of Josiah Sutton, a 16-year-old defendant, according to a report from the Houston Police Department's crime laboratory.
One focus of victimology has centred on identifying and measuring the frequency (both annual incidence and lifetime prevalence rates) of various types of victimizations, such as stalking, date rape, and carjacking.
The suit objects to the adding of 11 other crimes to the list in 2004 based on an attorney general's opinion, including shoplifting, receiving stolen property, robbery, statutory rape and carjacking.
Sexual harassment is a terrible thing, but it no more impedes interstate commerce than does rape or carjacking; let the states stop it.
Since 2006 the newspapers have told us we're going to be raped, carjacked and murdered whatever country we're playing in, whether it's South Africa or Brazil or Ukraine," said Perryman.
Some of these inmates have been charged with crimes as serious as "rape, child molestation, child abuse, kidnapping, mayhem, sex offenders who fail to register, carjacking," County Supervisor Michael Antonovich said on Tuesday.
One was carjacking that resulted in death.
