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Human Rights Watch Report: Most Sex Offender Laws Misguided and Ineffective
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2008, page 16
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Residence,
Commentary/Reviews,
Reviews,
Crime.
Location:
United States of America.
In September 2007, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US. The report concluded that most sex offender laws are ineffective and misguided in that they do not reduce the probability of future sex offenses or make the perpetrators ...
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