‘Prescott told Quartz those findings shouldn’t be surprising. Policies like alerting people to the presence of sex offenders or restricting where they live would intuitively seem to decrease risk. But that’s a static way of looking at the problem, he says—those policies themselves can make returning to prison look more desirable since ex-offenders find it hard to get housing, find a job, and form social bonds. “We have an anti-reentry policy for sex offenders,” Prescott says.’

Read the article by Steven Yoder in Quartz.

Posted by rbchatelle on Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 10:15AM
Categories: Sex Offender Issues

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