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Study: Sex offender law changes may not have boosted community safety

By "eAdvocate"

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10-19-2010 South Carolina: Does South Carolina?s sexual offender registry help cut down the number of new sex crimes? Does it decrease the odds that people listed on it will reoffend? A group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina spent the past five years examining those questions and outlined its findings in a report released recently. They found that the state?s sexual offender registration and notification laws, enacted in 1995, inadvertently led to changes in the way sex crimes are prosecuted ? changes that could actually ?reduce community safety,? according to the report. After 1995, researchers saw a spike in the number of plea bargains for sex crime defendants who plead to non-sex charges. Defendants who are guilty of sex crimes, but who ultimately pleaded to lesser charges, are not subjected to registration and could face lighter sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).