We’re Rethinking Prisons. Is It Time to Rethink Sex Offender Registries?

(Courtesy of Tammy Bond)

Taken as a whole, Agan says, the existing research shows that “registries and post-release notification laws do not on balance seem to be effective at reducing sex crimes or recidivism by sex offenders.”

Read the article by Erica Meiners in In These Times.