Are sex offender registries reinforcing inequality?

Here is an article published last year in of all places, a physic science website. Offenders convicted of sex crimes are now singled out for surveillance and restrictions far more punitive than those who commit other types of crime. More than 800,000 Americans are now registered sex offenders. Tracking them has created a booming surveillance industry. In my work on sex offender registries, I have found that black men in the U.S. were registered at...

Studies question effectiveness of sex offender laws

Reread this 2011 article from the University of Chicago questioning the effectiveness of current sex offender laws. Two studies are cited that conclude that these laws do not support the intended results.  Two studies in the latest issue of The Journal of Law and Economics cast doubt on whether sex offender registry and notification laws actually work as intended. One study, by J.J. Prescott of the University of Michigan and...

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