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The results are in from “Operation Predator”, the joint operation of state and federal officers that included sheriff’s offices from 39 counties in Florida, and they are pretty weak. According to Suncoast News, a total of 10,839 face to face verifications were conducted and 134 arrests were made for registration violations. That’s not new sex crimes, just technical violations of

The passages of sexual offender registries have grabbed headlines as steps toward public safety against unchanging “predators” who are being released back into society. The registry laws themselves have cost billions of dollars and generally are passed with overwhelming support. But do they work? “These kind of laws have a limited usefulness, which is they make it difficult for offenders

The legal battle over Pasco County’s strict new sex offender ordinance has taken a strange turn: Two Pasco sheriff’s deputies visited a sex offender at his home on March 15, according to court records, and tried to dissuade him from joining the lawsuit challenging the 2015 ordinance that governs where offenders can live in the county. The lawyer trying to

Authors Martin Schmucker and Friedrich Lösel The Question Does sex offender treatment reduce recidivism? The Research In 2005, Friedrich Lösel and Martin Schmucker conducted an influential meta-analysis of the evaluation of sexual offender treatment. This 2015 study provides an update with more recent primary research and focuses on those higher-quality studies that have comparison/control groups as well as documented measures

It’s important to be tough on crime. We must protect society, especially our children, from criminals whose past behaviors have clearly proven them to be dangerous predators. But sometimes we go overboard when the law creates more unnecessary suffering than it prevents. Freddie Q., now 51 and with no prior criminal record, is currently in his fourth year in federal