The net social cost of applying sex-offender registration and notification laws to those who commit offenses as juveniles could be as high as $3 billion a year, with most of those costs incurred by neighbors of registered offenders, according to a new benefit-cost analysis from the R Street Institute. Full Article
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The costs and benefits of subjecting juveniles to sex-offender registration and notification – Full Report (pdf)
The social costs of adults on sex-offender registries far outweigh benefits too.
Happy, John Walsh??? Happy????
Misguided moron!!!!!
The social costs…what in the world…since when did people start caring about the social costs for laws and legal operations?
If we actually cared about social costs the United States would:
1. Have way less people incarcerated, under house arrest, on probation, parole, and supervised release.
2. Solitary confinement wouldn’t exist.
3. No one would have a lifetime sentence or be sentenced to death. This includes no lifetime parole, probation, supervised release, or schemes requiring periodic check ins with law enforcement such as sex offender registration.
4. Civil commitment would not be indefinite and only geared towards those needing intense in patient attention. Also it would occur instead of prison or jail time.
5. Insane asylums or mental intuitions would have to aggressively treat mental issues so that no person would be locked away for longer than absolutely necessary. Rather than claiming something as delusion science would have to come up with better explanations for why an individual believes what they do.
6. Children (prepubescent), adolescents (pubescent), adults, and the elderly alike would all be directed to targeted programs before incarceration, fines, restitution, parole, probation, or supervised release were considered.
7. Front end programs that focus on inclusion rather than exclusion of individuals would be implemented to increase opportunity and provide safe educational environments for exploration. Essentially there exists real world situations or experiences that are difficult to become familiar with outside of a larger experience.
8. Social costs of anything would be considered just as much as economic or national security costs.