Indeed, a federally financed study of New Jersey's registration and notification procedures found that sex offense rates were already falling before the implementation of Megan's Law.
The Insite report, whose data goes only to 2008, said three-quarters of the colleges and their surrounding areas had sex offense rates that were 83 percent higher than the national rape average, with Dartmouth having the highest rate.
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Its offense, rated at or near the top in the nation all season, struggled for the second straight week today in the Sooners' 12-7 victoverOklahoma StateState.
There is also a certain unknown about this year's Patriots, although it is hard to find much wrong with the offense, rated No. 1 in the A.F.C. Brady, once again, was spectacular, passing for 5,235 yards and 39 touchdowns.
However, we can also find states that have many gun laws and a low gun offense rate, and states that are just the opposite on both measures.
Other examples of cherry-picking include, not are not limited to, when someone notes that New Hampshire has low gun crime and few gun laws, but that California has a high gun offense rate but also a lot of gun laws.
(In a study of more than a thousand male juveniles with sex-crime convictions, Elizabeth Letourneau and her colleagues found that public registration did not reduce repeat-offense rates).
If anything, the data indicates that sex offenders' re-offense rates for other crimes are likely lower, not higher.
Depending on what study you refer to, recidivism or re-offense rates are more like 13.5percentt and even less among female sex offenders, at 1.5percentt.
Since these restrictions were built on the faulty premise that sex offenders have high re-offense rates, it's unsurprising that they've done basically nothing to prevent new sex crimes.
