Density of Registered Sex Offenders

A friend of mine, who works at Fascinations (an adult store in the US), says that, if you steal from the store, you are labeled a sex offender, and can be arrested if you try and enter the store again. (Among other fun things)

I don't know if the law has different levels of severity of sexual offenses, but in society's eyes, they're all labeled the same.

I dunno; it's terrifying to think that there's people who were found guilty for these crimes but, at the same time, it doesn't seem fair to group everyone under "child-molester/rapist/socially-indept" or whatever.

Just throwing out a questions here, if anyone's able to answer it: are sexual offenses different for every state in the US?

Jam it back in, in the dark.