A decade ago, I was approached by a documentary film crew filming for a production about “human trafficking.” At the time, sex trafficking was thought of as something you see from a Hollywood movie like the 2008 movie “TAKEN” starring…
The Importations of Reconviction Rates.
Why the actual re-offense rates are important pertaining to the total number of people who are already on the registry compared with the percentage of those who are then later reconvicted of a new sexually related crime. This is a…
The Dark Figure of Sex Offense Recidivism Overestimation: An Exercise in Myth-Busting
Recently, a new research project by Nicholas Scurich (University of California, Irvine) and Richard S. John (University of Southern California) published a report entitled “The Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism.” The premise of their research paper is arguing the persistent…
With Polar Vortex Comes a Vortex of Shelter-Based Predator Panic
America is in the midst of a wave of bitter cold, and possibly the coldest surge of arctic air in decades this week. Just how cold is it? Today’s USA Today headline reads, “Yes, Chicago will be colder than Antarctica,…
Civil Regulation? The Registry & its Components are in fact Legislative Punishment.
The first thing that must be pointed out is that the sex offender registry came about because of the myth that people convicted of sexual related crimes were always going to reoffend. Some of the numbers that were tossed around…
Shaming is Punishment without Due Process
Our country was based on the idea of a constitutional republic. Basically this means that an individual’s rights and freedoms are paramount, and the right of the majority to take away a person’s freedoms is in violation of our Constitution,…