A report from the Australian Institute of Criminology. which examined the public registry in the United States and the non-public registries in the UK and Western Australia came to the conclusion that registries are not effective in reducing recidivism.
Among other findings, the report highlighted some facts we already know:
- There is no significant difference in sex offense recidivism in the 4.5 year follow-up period for pre-Megan’s Law offenders and post-Megan’s Law.
- Sex Offender Registration and Notification did not prevent sexual offending in the general community.
- There is no difference in sex offense recidivism between offenders who registered and those who did not
- Being placed on a public sex offender registry can result in exclusion from a neighborhood or residence, job loss, anxiety and other psychological problems, all of which are counterproductive in terms of reducing re-offending.
- 95 percent of sexual offenses were committed by those without prior sexual assault convictions.
- There is a two to eight percent decrease in the sale prices of residential properties near a registered sexual offender’s residence, along with an 84 percent increase in the time residential properties spend on the market.
- Two-thirds of law enforcement surveyed, felt labor expenditure in managing the registry had become an issue of concern.
- Vigilantism
- 44 percent of registered sexual offenders reported experiencing threats or harassment by neighbors
- around 20 percent experienced threats or harassment in general.
- 16 percent of offenders reported that their family members or other cohabitants had been harassed, attacked or had property
damaged as a result of their registration. - 8 percent experiencing physical attacks
- 14 percent reporting some form of property damage.
The link to the complete study is below:
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One word bullet point. Vigilantism ! The fact that a bullet point for registry fail can be surmised to a single word, and that said word echoes more fail on those imposing registry truly speaks volumes.
Maybe we should forward the link to this post to every state and federal legislator and every candidate. Armed with real information and facts we might knock some sense into some way overpaid heads.
Logic – would you like to spearhead this project?
Would never work in the god forsaken state of Fl, hate to be negative but man it’s a fact this state is jacked on SOs
The SOR is like a wooden lightening rod. The Elect are sure a lightening rod is needed; they know a wooden one is useless but they lack the intentional fortitude to speak the truth about a wooden lightening rod; no one is willing to take the wooden rod down because that would make things unsafe which would defeat the purpose of having a wooden lightening rod.
The solution…well of course…more wooden lightening rods that will protect us and neutralize lightening. That will fix the problem
This story has no end
Well it will when we’re dead. Which is apparently what they want.
Ok, if laws have to have a rational bases to be enforceable under the 14th amendment, section one, why hasn’t, in a court of equity, these laws been challenged in the u.s. courts? The more I read about this, the more I am concern with organizations that say they are doing something to solve this problem are truly not doing anything. There is a substantive due process issue here. People are being require to do things to promote public safety without good cause that public safety is being enhanced
Not sure what you mean. These laws have been challenged on the 14th Amendment in most Federal Circuits. Even in the SCOTUS (Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe).
Where are you finding this issue has not been challenged?
Carr v. Conn says that due process issue were not decided at a substitutive level.
Remember Jim crow laws were overturned because they stigamzed people with out good cause.
Mark Coren – yes but it took a while – also SCOTUS upheld the Jim Crow laws in Plessy VS Ferguson (they said separate but equal was fine – you know like it is not punishment) – it took 50 more years for the decision to be over turned – but it was.
Ok so if people are being marginalized without just cause we are to believe that should wait. I think not. The road map was outlined in the synder case. The 6th circuit said the Michigan law was punishment, stigmatized and did not meet the substantive due process standards. Most of the decisions that were made were before this data was available. The supreme court used data in a non peer review journal psychology today to make its decision in the smith case. The data has since been shown to be invalid. A fraud!!! With all these study showing what they are showing maybe it is time to, on the basis that the law does not have a rational basis, as was stated by the 6th curciut, to challenge them again on the grounds that they voilate section 1 of the 14th amendment. Remember Brown v Topeka says that it is unconstitutional to stigmatized people without good cause. So all these study say there is no good cause. Since these regulations are civil they need to be challenged on there inequities.
Totally confused with that!?
But seriously, staying on topic with these studies. How much sway do these actually have? What
I mean is, how much of an impact might this and other studies of this nature have with lawmakers when individuals such as the Books blatantly refuse to acknowledge them?
Didn’t Australia just recently vote in a sex offender registry? Is this a kick back?
It’s a good report, but where did the numbers come from?
Citations to the stats are in the report
It is being proven, study after study, that this registry does NOT work. Oh you have the “Ron & Lauren Book’s “Fear-mongering and slanderous, inciteful and hateful rhetoric aimed at “the Bad Man”; when all of the Books diatribe is nothing but a father who is full of guilt by putting his political career over the well being of his daughter. (can you say KARMA)
NOW, Mr. Book is trying to expand his failing political career at the expense of his daughter (again).
It has been proven, all over the world, that these draconian laws dont work.
When I told my “monthly check cop” yesterday about the talk about abolishing the registry, he was actually “PLEASED”. (he didnt know about any of the talk about it, the challenges in court– and he just found out, by me, about the 5 to 3 day residency restriction).
I have to feel blessed. My neighbors know about me, of me, and the way I was SET-UP for this crime. ALL of my neighbors trust me, including letting one of my neighbors kids (12 yo) come over and cut my lawn.
I do NOT want to make this sound like I am rubbing anyones nose in “look at what I can do–and you cant”; NO, that is not why I write. I want to be off this list just as bad as anyone here.
As I was talking to the cop, I started in with one of my coughing fits and almost passed out. He helped me into the house, and as he was leaving he said to my wife “he isnt a threat to anyone, not even himself”. He said he would keep me in his prayers……
FAC,
I know you can only work as fast as the courts allow; I dont have much time on this earth, please get us ALL off this list.
Amen … and don’t feel guilty for being Accepted!
Australians seem to actually value truth. I watched a show a few years ago about their prisons. Guards were encouraged to be friendly towards inmates because they found that it made for a more safe and peaceful environment. Then a few years ago after a mass shooting, Australians turned over their firearms to promote a safer country. They didn’t feed on the scare tactics of what would happen if they weren’t armed to protect themselves against imagined enemies. Truth has been devalued in America.
If only they hadn’t revoked all of their registered sex offenders’ passports and restricted them from foreign travel, I might have a bit more respect for that government.
Ray they actually had registrants arrested and convicted of sex tourism with minors where we have had none.
This is what we have all believed now presented in factual form by a recognized authority. The resultant provision is amazing although not a surprise to most of us. The question now is what do we do with this new found assistance? It will still take a lot of talking and arm twisting to get legislators to take action to remove said registries that they have come to depend on for votes in so many places. That to me is the supreme challenge.
So is anyone else waiting for a Ron Book type to claim that draconian residency restrictions actually serve to reduce the chance of vigilantism because the offenders are more isolated? 😉
They already know this Amnesty International said the same thing but they also see the registry as a Human Rights Violation but because we are not working in a sweatshops in Southeast Asia it’s easy to ignore
At least two major countries in the EU, Germany and Spain IIRC, have categorically declared lifetime SOR to be a human rights violation. The UK had a similar case decided based on EU treaties, etc, but that will likely go away with BREXIT. Of course, the UK still excludes folks like us probably based on the “catch all” provisions of their immigration law. Perhaps even the same ones that they used to exclude that crazy Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who was a sitting member of the Dutch House of Representatives) and loony tunes US radio personality Michael Savage. Clever. Use your own laws to get around your own laws. 😉