Catching Pokémon, and sex offenders: Against the frenzy to ban sex offenders from playing the new augmented reality game

The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation and beyond, sending young people scurrying through the streets, phones in hand, frantically seeking these fictional little creatures. It also has politicians scurrying to find heavy-handed answers to trumped-up fears. That’s because it didn’t take long before someone realized that, horror of horrors, with all of these children, teenagers and twentysomethings scampering

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NY Times: Punishment That Doesn’t Fit the Crime

When Matthew Grottalio was 10 years old, he and his older brother initiated a touching “game” with their 8-year-old sister. “None of us knew what we were doing,” he said, and he soon forgot about the episode. But later that year, 1998, his sister’s teacher found out and notified the authorities. Just weeks after Matthew’s 11th birthday, police officers handcuffed

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