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Opinion Piece Argues Economist Article Misleading

By Corey Rayburnyung

Wendy Murphy, an Adjunct Professor at New England Law School, has an opinion piece entitled Sex offender laws flawed but critical. The editorial criticizes the recent Economist article (previously mentioned here), which Professor Murphy describes as a "puff piece about how sex offenders are treated unfairly and sex offender registries are barbaric." From the editorial:[The Economist article] begins with a typical extreme example of a 17-year-old prosecuted for committing a sex offense against an underage student in the middle of a classroom while others were watching a film. Nearly a quarter of the article is spent on the details of this one case ? while zero ink is dedicated to explaining that the prosecution of teens who engage in consensual (if underage) sex is exceedingly rare...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).