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I've already said my piece a while back about how I think the system could more effectively prosecute and penalize cases of sex crime against children. If there was more attention paid to the difference between predators and situational offenders perhaps a registry wouldn't even be necessary. The catch-all system of categorizing all crimes that involve some form of nudity as the same, or even similar in nature is, I believe, hurting the cause of protecting the public from dangerous people more than helping it.
And any system that requires convicted felons to be honorable and report their movements is not likely to be a reliable method of tracking dangerous people, anyway. Obviously those who want to stay out of trouble and are most likely to do so are going to be the ones on it. Those who either don't give a shit or want to be off it because they don't intend to stay out of trouble won't.
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