All crimes of the same name are not equal.<p>The 17 year old having (nominally) consensual sex with a 15 year old.  The drunken liaison where one party was not able to consent (doesn&#x27;t remember consenting, didn&#x27;t, or otherwise).  The breaking and entering to rape at knife point.<p>I do not consider these equal crimes, and whilst I&#x27;ve no objection to legal intervention in each I think the key on is to appropriately manage the risk of re offending.  Making someone&#x27;s life nigh on impossible after serving time only makes them resent the system and interferes with proper re-integration into society.  That&#x27;s the only meaningful goal.  Or it should be in my opinion.