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Halloween Study

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As Halloween approaches, many communities will start enacting or enforcing restrictions on the activities of registered citizens based on the myth that this holiday is a particularly dangerous time of year.

For those looking to challenge this myth or respond to newspaper articles touting the “sex offender halloween scare”, you can cite this 2009 study which examined the myth and found that there was no particular increase in danger between this day and any other this time of year and there was no change in danger before or after certain restrictions were passed.

https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sex-Abuse-2009-Chaffin-363-74.pdf

 

 

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