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Are sex offender registries reinforcing inequality?

  • Written by Trevor Hoppe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageGrounds of Hand Up Ministries in Oklahoma City houses sex offenders.AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

Public sex offender registries are at the forefront of what I’ve described in my research as a “war on sex.”

Offenders convicted of sex crimes are now singled out for surveillance and restrictions far more punitive than those who commit other...

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