Legal experts on all sides agree that downloading and watching child pornography is repugnant behavior. What they are at odds over is whether such defendants are as much of a threat to society as rapists or murderers.

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Not In My Backyard KCLU special report explores effects of “Jessica’s Law”

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This is what parenting had come to look like at the dawn of the 21st century — just one more extravagance, the Bubble Wrap waiting to burst.

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And as long as politicians and the media can make hay (or reputations) out of this issue, it will breed fear and hysteria and ruin men (mostly) and their families lives who do not deserve to have this happen !

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Offender Watch is misleading the country See the "comments at bottom of article.

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Bombshell, if 50% of those registrants are re-offending, then the total number of registered offenders should have grown by leaps and bounds. 600,000 plus half-again is 900,000, then 900,000 plus half-again is 1,350,000 plus half-again to 2,025,000 and [More...]

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In an Associated Press article printed in the Nov. 4 Miami Herald we learned that Florida's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability concluded that residential-restriction laws for sex offenders are ineffective in preventing repeat [More...]

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And the quote the Department of Justice is non-existant . If it exists, I have yet to see a copy of this so called study that shows a 50% recidivism rate, but, it looks like one of those Goldilock numbers (not to much, not too less, but not accurate [More...]

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- According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, “in about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI, ... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, [More...]

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Results provide no support for the effectiveness of registration and community notification laws in reducing sexual offending by: (a) rapists, (b) child molesters, (c) sexual recidivists, or (d) first-time sex offenders. Analyses also showed that over 95% [More...]

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