[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
“Twenty years of research has established that people with convictions for sex offenses have low rates of recidivism and that the expanding realms of post-release punishment do not prevent sexual violence. But no matter how many times the data are repeated or extrapolated, they have negligible effect on policy, as repealing or even softening any sex-crimes statute is viewed as politically radioactive.”
Read the article by Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners in The Baffler.
