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?Unjust and ineffective?? America?s sex offender registries exploding

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Economist: "Because so many offences require registration, the number of registered sex offenders in America has exploded. As of December last year, there were 674,000 of them, according to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. If they were all crammed into a single state, it would be more populous than Wyoming, Vermont or North Dakota. As a share of its population, America registers more than four times as many people as Britain, which is unusually harsh on sex offenders. America?s registers keep swelling, not least because in 17 states, registration is for life."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).