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NJ - Megan's Law Doesn't Work. Now What?

View the article here 02/27/2009 By Michael Buncher - NJ Voices Guest Columnist For the past 15 years the public has been left with a false sense of security. A federally funded study has determined that Megan's Law does not work. Conducted by independent psychologists along with staff from the state Department of Corrections' Office of Policy and Planning, this comprehensive study looked at 21 years of sex offense rates. It confirms in New Jersey what other studies have found elsewhere. Megan's Law "has no demonstrable effect in reducing sexual re-offenses." Megan's Law struck out on every important area related to protecting the community from sexual offenders. Not only is there no evidence that it reduces sexual re-offenses, Megan's Law fails to positively impact sex offender re-arrest rates, fails to change the type of re-offenses or first time offenses that occur and fails to reduce the number of victims involved in sexual offenses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).