Sex Offender Registration of Children (SORNA) | Juvenile Law Center
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Registries continue to punish youth years and even decades after they have served time. Data and research show that registries don’t improve public safety.
  • waterbogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    The problem isnt the registries per se, it is that they are extremely poorly administered if children are being put on them. The criteria for adding an individual to such registries needs to be strict and with a reasonably high threshold, so that nobody gets on one for things like pissing outside, or accidental exposure, or minors sexting each other, or for accidentally having a few CSAM images that they had downloaded unwittingly etc

    I had some involvement with a local registry some years back, and we only inluded adults who physically offended against minors and with a significant age difference, and adults who were actively and deliberately involved in the production and distribution of copious quantities of CSAM. Most had track records involving multiple offences and multiple victims

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            3 years ago

            The argument is that the use of “porn” implies that it’s as acceptable as regular porn, that it ligitimizes it.

            Which is absolutely ridiculous. Only a pedophile would see “child porn” and think it’s just another perfectly acceptable category of porn.

            But some SJW think tank probably got a grant and a few professors got published due to this.

            My guess is that the churn in PC terms is similar to the way software companies always have to release an “update” or “new feature” even if their product is working perfectly fine: people need promotions, and big initiatives make them look good, and they nope out to another company before the negative effects can be seen, so future employees who are stuck with the stupid unnecessary change get the blame for its failure.