Must Listen: Is It Time To Get Rid of the Sex Offender Registry? Emily Horowitz Says Yes.
One sure way to lose a popularity contest is to fight for the rights of convicted sex offenders. But The National Sex Offender Registry, which was established during an era of panic over crime and child danger, has come with a host of unintended consequences. Sociologist Emily Horowitz is one of a handful of academics and researchers who speaking out against the registry, showing how it’s yet another blunt instrument of “tough on crime” 1990s legislation and ultimately does more to ruins lives than to protect kids.
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Hurts more people than it helps.
Seems FAC has some good articles on their site and one needs to understand also about the registry as a whole. While comments on many advocate sites are good one should understand the modus type operandi of conviction with this registry issue, whether one had a child victim or was induced by law enforcement pretending as a safety measure of inducement. That in many ways doesn’t seem to tread water , there is always a catch to much of this sad ordeal.
Why do you think they give some plea deals. A bit of bible study will tell one that. Lets say one gave a plea or was given a ruse of a plea deal in these sexual matters .They get put on probation. Some pictures are found one may get prison time but they still have to go thru sex registry classes which are required. Than after one completes the class the parole or probation officer or prison counselor calls one back in and present a paper to one that says they knew they were talking to a child via the computer which is how most of these offenses are done today… if one signs that paper… you are under the state for as long as they want you to be which could be for life.
That little signing of that paper is signing one’s life away. Do not sign that forum they present as it is another ruse just like much of this sex registry is. So yes the prgistry is painful for one to go thru and even the word brings out the worst of rape senerio when one doesn’t actually know the whole story.
Sure I’m in favor of baning much or all of this registry as I am sure everyone wants much of this banned in this type of pre-judgment ordeal. One wonders who’s behavior is the worst, the one that set the person up or the person themself. That is not the way even Roman’s 13 goes so who was showing respect in many of these ordeals?
Disguising to promote pre-judgment is evil in itself. No wonder Hittler blew his brains out. Declaration of Independence in this issue doesn’t give liberty it seems, and the Government should be ashamd of themself for even voting or coming up with something like this that comes right out of hells kitchen.
I can agree that if you want to be hated and harassed, just advocate for effective laws for sex crimes. I felt God calling me into that roll almost 20 years ago ( seems hard to believe it was that long ago)
I felt sure that with all the experts proving these laws harmful and the people who were working so hard to get the truth out about recidivism that the politicians would stop using making more and more laws as an easy way to stir up the public and get votes. So many lives destroyed as a way to get elected. I also thought they would run out of ways to add punishment and banishment to the law of the land for those deemed sex offenders. None of that has proven true. It boggles the mind to see how low some politicians will sink to get easy publicity. Thank you to all of those who continue the fight to get truth and reality out to the public. It is a hard, ugly fight but millions of people in America are counting on your sucess.
” I also thought they would run out of ways to add punishment and banishment to the law of the land for those deemed sex offenders.”
Mankind’s ability to inflict cruelty and revenge on one another, especially when done in the name of “justice,” never ceases to amaze me.
I listened to this. It’s a very good interview-conversation. How do we get this on some type of main stream platform is the question???