California’s Sane New Approach to Sex Offenders

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

“Why did you write a book about the sex offender registry?”

“When I saw the research on the registry I was really shocked at how pointless it is. And it was shocking because usually, when you research something, there’s ambiguity—there are some good things and there are some bad things. But with the registry, there’s really no research that shows it’s effective at all.”

Read the interview with NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz in Slate.

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