Sarah Tofte wrote an interesting article on the Jaycee Dugard case and discussed how “America’s sex offender registries hurt efforts to stop repeat sex crimes.”
Americans have been doing some soul-searching about our approach to monitoring convicted sex offenders since the recent discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Dugard was kidnapped in California at age 11 and held captive for 18 years in Phillip Garrido’s garden. He managed to hide his secret prisoner from the police even though he was a convicted rapist and his name appeared on the public sex offender registry.
