90-93% of Victims Know Their Perpetrator
RAINN: Children and Teens: Statistics
https://bjs.ojp.gov/nibrs/reports/sarble/sarble19
https://socialmiami.com/senator-lauren-book-masks-do-not-increase-kidnapping-risk-for-children/
https://ctmirror.org/2018/05/21/sex-offender-registry-harm-good/
90% or More of Future Sex Crimes Will Be Committed by People Not on the Registry
“The majority of empirical studies indicate that those convicted of a sexual offense have no previous sexual offense on their record, and in one instance over 95% of all sexual offense arrests were committed by first-time offenders (Hepburn &Griffin, 2002; Sandler et al, 2008).” See Discussion on page 20. (Journal of Experimental Criminology, Kristen M. Zgoba, Meghan M. Mitchell, 2021, “The effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings?”) The effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings (floridaactioncommittee.org)
“Almost all (95%) of sex crimes are committed by someone who would not be on the sex offender registry.” (Psychology Today, “Sex Offender Registries”, Elizabeth Jeglic, Ph.D., 2019) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/protecting-children-sexual-abuse/201908/sex-offender-registries
“…over 95% of all sexual offense arrests were committed by first-time sex offenders…” (American Psychological Association, “Does a watched pot boil? A time-series analysis of New York State’s sex offender registration and notification law.”, Jeffrey C. Sandler, Naomi J. Freeman, Kelly M. Socia, 2008) Does a watched pot boil? A time-series analysis of New York State’s sex offender registration and notification law. (apa.org)
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
Bloated Florida Registry
Sex Offender Registration (floridaactioncommittee.org)
Collateral Damages
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/assets/articles/SOTF_report_final_12292017.pdf
https://ctmirror.org/2018/05/21/sex-offender-registry-harm-good/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
Costs
The Need For Evidence Based Sex Offender Registry Reform – See pages 15 and 15
https://parsol.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SORNACosts2021.pdf
CP
Federal Sentencing of CP Non-Production Offenses, United States Sentencing Commission, June 2021 (The sexual recidivism rate for all non-production child pornography offenders was 4.3% three years after release from incarceration or the commencement of probation — page 65. The data used was for offenders sentenced for the 15-year period between fiscal years 2005 to 2019 — Page 16.)
Distortions of Statistics on Sex-Crime Recidivism by U.S. Government
http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/jpj_bad_data.pdf Justice Policy Journal, Spring 2016, “Bad Data: How government agencies distort statistics on sex-crime recidivism”, Alissa R. Ackerman and Marshall Burns
Entrapment/Stings
https://theappeal.org/online-child-sex-stings-protect-act/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/magazine/sex-offender-operation-net-nanny.html
Halloween
20-09-Halloween-2020.pdf (narsol.org)
Sexual Abuse: Halloween and sexual abuse prevention: The mythical “Halloween effect” (atsa.com)
Halloween: When Sex Offenders Are the Scariest Ghosts | Psychology Today
Sexual Abuse: Halloween & Sex Crime: Myth vs. Reality (atsa.com)
Manufacturing Fear: Halloween Laws for Sex Offenders | HuffPost
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1079063209340143
https://patch.com/washington/kirkland/8-sex-offenders-kirkland-2020-safety-map
Low-Risk Registrants Do Not Need Monitoring
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-effectiveness-of-Sex-Offender-Registration-and-Notification-A-meta-analysis-of-25-years-of-findings.pdf ( Resources need to be allocated to focusing only on the high-risk individuals.)
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238060.pdf
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/assets/articles/SOTF_report_final_12292017.pdf
Punitive
https://zilneyl.medium.com/will-sex-offense-registry-changes-be-part-of-criminal-justice-reform-6c3c897c367a
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/assets/articles/SOTF_report_final_12292017.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://reason.com/2017/09/06/for-sex-offenders-registration-is-punish/
https://theappeal.org/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall/
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1014&context=themis
Registries Do Not Work
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/727028 “Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada”, Patrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, and Elizabeth L. Jeglic, The University of Chicago Press Journals, August 18, 2023
The free abstract includes, “Sexual recidivism rates reported in American studies have been low and dropping since the 1970s, well before enactment of public registration and notification laws. A more pronounced drop was observed in Canadian studies despite the absence of public registration and notification laws.”
“Time-Series Analyses of the Impact of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law Implementation and Subsequent Modification on Rates of Sexual Offenses” (Page 1: Using data from a large metropolitan area in Texas over the time period 1977 to 2012, and employing a number of time-series analyses, the impact of the initial SORN implementation and two enhancements to the law were examined. Results reveal no effect of SORN, or its subsequent modifications, on all sexual offenses or any of the several specific offenses’ measures (e.g., crimes by repeat offenders). Pages 25-26: A growing number of studies suggest that the implementation of SORN requirements has had little relationship to rates of sexual offending over time. The current results, in conjunction with much of the existing research on SORN laws, suggest that these requirements alone may do little to combat the problems posed by sexual offenders in the community.)
https://news.yahoo.com/experts-say-sex-offender-registries-dont-work-can-they-be-fixed-215957631.html
The Sexual Psychopath Laws (northwestern.edu) See pages 547-548 (Research from 1950 showing that the low sexual recidivism rates existed long before the registry came along)
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-effectiveness-of-Sex-Offender-Registration-and-Notification-A-meta-analysis-of-25-years-of-findings.pdf (SORN policies demonstrate NO effect on recidivism.)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/01/10/tenn-ag-defies-experts-opposing-changes-sex-offender-registry/9121101002/
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231989.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
Failure to Register as a Predictor of Sex Offense Recidivism: The Big Bad Wolf or a Red Herring?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238060.pdf
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
https://theappeal.org/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall/
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/may/15/ex-offender-registries-common-sense-or-nonsense/
Residency Restrictions Do Not Work
https://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2008/02/ohio-supreme-co.html, https://www.nemannlawoffices.com/video/changes-to-ohio-s-sex-offender-registry.cfm The Ohio Supreme Court found residency restrictions punitive in 2008 and therefore violative of that state Constitution’s ex post facto clause. Ohio recently (in 2020) added new sex offender residency restrictions but made violating them a civil rather than a criminal violation, and the Ohio Supreme Court has not yet ruled on that. That doesn’t change the fact that the Ohio Supreme Court found them punitive in 2008. Ohio recently (in 2020) added new sex offender residency restrictions but made violating them a civil rather than a criminal violation.
https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=jlsj
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2012/02/jill-levenson-sexoffenders-residency/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/jlsj/vol36/iss2/5/
Grand Challenges Social Justice and the Need for Evidence-based Sex Offender Registry Reform page 22
https://www.doc.ks.gov/publications/CFS/sex-offender-housing-restrictions
https://www.dpscs.state.md.us/onlineservs/sor/frequently_asked_questions.shtml, see question 15
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011128712449230
Residency Restrictions Promote Homelessness
Sex Offender Residence Restrictions and Homelessness – A Critical Look at South Carolina
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/assets/articles/SOTF_report_final_12292017.pdf
Sex Offender Registration (floridaactioncommittee.org), pages 25 and 26
Sexual Recidivism Rates
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/727028 “Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada”, Patrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, and Elizabeth L. Jeglic, The University of Chicago Press Journals, August 18, 2023
The free abstract includes, “Sexual recidivism rates reported in American studies have been low and dropping since the 1970s, well before enactment of public registration and notification laws. A more pronounced drop was observed in Canadian studies despite the absence of public registration and notification laws.”
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-effectiveness-of-Sex-Offender-Registration-and-Notification-A-meta-analysis-of-25-years-of-findings.pdf (SORN policies demonstrate NO effect on recidivism.)
The Sexual Psychopath Laws (northwestern.edu) See pages 547-548 (Research from 1950 showing that the low sexual recidivism rates existed long before the registry came along)
State by State Recidivism Studies by NARSOL
Video at casomb.org
https://youtu.be/Hnf3bmoPLx4 , Karl Hanson, 23 min: 20 sec, January 2021, lifetime sexual recidivism rates
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorsp9yfu0514.pdf (7.7 % of released inmates whose most serious offense was rape or sexual assault committed a new sex crime during their 9 years of release from prison in 2005.)
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/law-law0000135.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court-repeat-sex-offenders.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/sex-offender-bans-are-based-on-bad-science.html
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238060.pdf
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
https://theappeal.org/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall/
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/may/15/ex-offender-registries-common-sense-or-nonsense/
https://ctmirror.org/2018/05/21/sex-offender-registry-harm-good/
Risky Policies: How Effective Are Restrictions on Sex Offenders in Reducing Reoffending?
Social Justice and the Need for Evidence-Based Sex Offender Registry Reform
Stranger Danger Myth Debunked
https://theappeal.org/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall/
Victims
http://allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/Crime%20Survivors%20Speak%20Report.pdf (Pages 26-28)
What Does Work
Video at casomb.org
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/01/10/tenn-ag-defies-experts-opposing-changes-sex-offender-registry/9121101002/
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231989.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238060.pdf
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/assets/articles/SOTF_report_final_12292017.pdf
https://theappeal.org/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall/
https://www.floridadaily.com/lauren-book-warns-that-tiktok-poses-dangers-for-children/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
Who Are the People on the Sex Offense Registry?
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries
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