“Public and political support for registries remains high. There is little evidence that attitudes have been impacted by a growing body of research showing that public registration, community notification, and residency restrictions do not decrease the incidence of sexual offense. Rates of sexual re-offense have been low both before and after registries, and sex offenses have lower recidivism than almost all other crimes. Further, decades of data consistently show that the majority of sex offenses involve non-strangers and those without prior sex-offense convictions. In other words, there’s scant proof that sex offender registries make us any safer.”

Read the article by NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz in Inquest, published by the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, housed at Harvard Law School.

Posted by rbchatelle on Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 11:00AM
Categories: Sex Offender Issues

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