Effectiveness and Consequences
The vast majority of sexual offence victims are known to the offender, either related, or intimate to the victim, this is contrary to media depictions of stranger assaults or child molesters who kidnap children unknown to them. Thus, despite the public awareness of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders, there has been no evidence shown that mandatory registration has made society safer.
In at least two instances, convicted sex offenders were murdered after their information was made available over the Internet.
The Human Rights Watch organization criticized these laws in a 146-page report published in 2007. and another report in 2013.
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