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The Economist assails US sex offender laws

By Douglas A. Berman

The August 6th issue of The Economist includes these two pieces concerning US sex offender laws and policies: Unjust and ineffective America's unjust sex laws As these headlines suggest, these articles are mostly critical and their main focus is sex offender registration rules.  Here is a snippet from the first piece linked above: Every American state keeps a register of sex offenders. California has had one since 1947, but most states started theirs in the 1990s.  Many people assume that anyone listed on a sex-offender registry must be a rapist or a child molester.  But most states spread the net much more widely. A report by Sarah Tofte of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, found that at least five states required men to register if they were caught visiting prostitutes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).