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Our sex offender laws are ridiculous, but there is a sorta-valid reason the sex offender registry exists.
In terms of true sex offenders - rapists, pedophiles, etc - we can't rehabilitate them. They will more than likely offend again.
Well, not according to the USDOJ they're not. In fact, they have a lower recidivism rate than most offenders. The offense with the highest rate of reoffense is drug offenders. Sex offender 5 year release reoffense rate is 5.3%. If that sounds high to you, consider that 5.3% of the 750,000 people on the sex offender registry are the dangerous ones. Almost 95% are not. 8.6% of non-sex offender related offenders re offended within 5 years of release. 86% of new sex offenses are committed by people that are not on the registry. So exactly what good does this society "to-hate" list do?
http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/Reports/Sexrecid.pdf
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It is a common misconception that all sex offenders reoffend. Its one of those things the media has repeated enough times that people accept it as truth. Well, it's not. In fact, have a look at the sex offender registry and just pick people out at random. I had to read about 30 profiles before I found someone who reoffended, and this persons' first offense was in 1968 and their second was in 2008. That hardly counts.
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