Sex-offender registries in five states inflate counts by 43 percent
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 11:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Do an online search for sex offenders living in your neighborhood and you may be alarmed by how many you find. But a new study of sex-offender registries in five states shows that they overestimate the number of offenders actually living in the community by as much as 60 percent.