An important peer-reviewed study concludes, "The data in these three data sets do no strongly support the effectiveness of sex offender registries. The national panel data do no show a significant decrease in the rate of rape or the arrest rate for sexual abuse after implementation of a registry or access to the registry via Internet... This pattern of noneffectiveness across the data sets does not support the conclusion that sex offender registries are successful in meeting their objectives of increasing public safety and lowering recidivism rates. "
Agan, Amanda Y. "Sex offender registries: Fear without function?." The Journal of Law and Economics 54.1 (2011): 207-239.
Sex offender laws aren't protecting American children. To borrow the words of Some Schmo "Nobody Cares". At least the liberals care about gun control, but literally nobody cares about sex offender laws that are doing more harm than good. No one here cares about child safety.
According to a New York Times Article
the registries have grown rapidly — to nearly three-quarters of a million registrants at latest count. Culpability and harm vary greatly in the offenses for which people are registered. Some states require exhibitionists and “peeping Toms” to register. By best estimates, a large majority is registered for conviction on first offenses involving neither violence nor coercionor even, in some cases, physical contact). Many registrants would not be classified as criminal under European laws, which set lower ages of consent than do American laws. Registrants even include minors who had consensual sex with their high school sweethearts, or who traded self-taken sexually explicit photos with their peers (“sexting”)...
Such provisions were promoted as applying to the “worst of the worst,” like child rapists and violent repeat offenders. In practice, they turn expansive classes of people into pariah outcasts who can never be reintegrated back into society: adults who supplied pornography to teenage minors; young schoolteachers who foolishly fell in love with one of their students; men who urinated in public, or were caught having sex in remote areas of public parks after dark.
But we could revisit the registries’ public notification clause — which, studies show, is costly, ineffective and may even encourage recidivism by shutting ex-offenders out of employment and housing and giving them “nothing to lose.”
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And no wonder why sex offender laws are ineffective, with so many people (3/4 million) on the list it is very hard to keep track of the dangerous ones. The US laws aren't doing anything to protect children. It's just truly pathetic!!!!