Comments on: Texas professor who studies sex offender policy is targeted by vigilantism for his work

By: Joe123

Joe123 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 04:55:27 +0000

In reply to Maestro. It hasn't changed, according to emperical evidence. Sexual abuse rates, including all crime, was falling before the registries and kept falling at the same rate after they were established.

By: Joe123

Joe123 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 04:52:56 +0000

In reply to Phys Ed. Could you provide insight on what you studied/researched? If possible

By: Phys Ed

Phys Ed — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:06:58 +0000

If you write on, or study about the human sex drive, you are opening a can of worms for yourself. I was not as distinquished a researcher as Professor Hubbard, but I got caught up in a similar fashion with a charge myself and spent years in prison because of my own basal ignorance of judicial arcanities. It’s hard to believe that Congress would criminalize journalistic curiosity, but they HAVE. Curiosity is the lifeblood of the mind and should not be shackled.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:08:35 +0000

He does not “study sex offender policy.” He studies ancient attitudes towards what we today would consider sexual abuse, then suggests that this be considered in contemporary sex offender policy (which he does not study).

Of course he should be protected from false accusations and threats. But the outrage directed towards him does not appear to result from his academic study.

There are plenty of able academics who are experts in sex offender policy. We know who they are. This professor is not one of them.

By: ROM

ROM — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:13:20 +0000

Instead of going after a collage professor how about going after the catholic priests that have done far worst damage to child. Everybody is this country thinks that ALL sex offenders are child molesters. Do the research and you’ll find find it’s not even close. Find out about the subject do some research instead of listening to someone on the local news or even from law enforcement the 2 magic words, sex offender, to get rates or show how much safer the public is from illegal sting operations that cost tax payers thousands of dollars.

By: NateRinken

NateRinken — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:59:59 +0000

Is it possible to vigilante a vigilante?

It is always hard for me to read something like this. The first thing that comes in my mind, is what do we do about it?
Being in the world of instant gratification, the answer would be no. It’s a it’s going to take years beyond years and the change the minds or outlook of the general population/community… I think everything starts in education. That’s why I try to tell my story to everyone. But it Hass to go so much deeper than one person in. It has to start in the schools. And with sex education. And maybe even the school teaching the parents With new and updated information.

But at this moment without money to put where my mouth is, and I feel hopeless and helpless to the cause.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:46:15 +0000

The professor is wrong. So are his critics, including Fire the Abusers.

Ancient attitudes toward child sexual abuse are worthy of academic study. So is slavery. That does not mean that they are relevant to present-day discussions about sexual-abuse policy, as the professor maintains. On that point, I think we can agree that the professor is wrong, and he should expect to have to defend his positions. They are certainly not the positions of, say, FAC or NARSOL.

But he should not be publicly accused, in the absence of apparent victims and without evidence, of being an abuser himself. His home should not be trespassed. He should not be threatened. If Fire the Abusers cannot get these things under control, then they deserve whatever the law throws at them.

The only party that seems to be doing the right thing in all this? Law enforcement!

By: Maestro

Maestro — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:45:45 +0000

If there was no sex offense registry (as there wasn’t prior to 1995 or 96) this man could research and teach these FACTS about WORLD history.
We did fine without a registry before and we can do just fine without one again.
What were the recidivism rates BEFORE the residency restrictions vs what they are now? I’m sure nothing in that has changed. Basic laws regarding age of consent and actual molestation were the same.

We do not need a registry at all.