{"id":637,"date":"2018-06-01T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:50:07","slug":"the-appeal-sex-registries-as-modern-day-witch-pyres-why-criminal-justice-reform-advocates-need-to-address-the-treatment-of-people-on-the-sex-offender-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/06\/01\/the-appeal-sex-registries-as-modern-day-witch-pyres-why-criminal-justice-reform-advocates-need-to-address-the-treatment-of-people-on-the-sex-offender-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Appeal] Sex Registries as Modern-Day Witch Pyres: Why Criminal Justice Reform Advocates Need to Address the Treatment of People on the Sex Offender Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"76b1\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure selectionShareable\">Perhaps the most irrefutable statement that can be made about modern day America is this: we have a penchant for putting people in cages. More than any other nation on the planet, we rely on\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/07\/07\/yes-u-s-locks-people-up-at-a-higher-rate-than-any-other-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incarceration\u00a0<\/a>as the fix for our social ills.<\/p>\n<p id=\"a2c4\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p selectionShareable\">America\u2019s unprecedented prison boom spawned advocates who work tirelessly to put the police state toothpaste back into the tube. As a result, despite a steady media diet of cops and robbers police procedurals, the rhetoric on crime policy has begun to shift. The country appears to be approaching something akin to apostasy. We<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/mass-incarceration\/smart-justice\/aclu-poll-finds-americans-reject-trumps-tough-crime-approach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0have begun to lose our faith<\/a>\u00a0in imprisonment as an effective response to problems like drug addiction. For the first time since the data was tracked,\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/analysis\/2015\/09\/17\/state-federal-prison-populations-decline-simultaneously-for-first-time-in-36-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state and federal prison populations declined<\/a>\u00a0in 2014, albeit slightly, from historic highs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5fa7\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p selectionShareable\">Yet amidst this wave of reform, one group of people continue to languish in the collective \u201charsher is better\u201d mindset: sex offenders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theappeal.org\/sex-registries-as-modern-day-witch-pyres-why-criminal-justice-reform-advocates-need-to-address-the-aca3aaa47f03\/\">[Read More at The Appeal]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most irrefutable statement that can be made about modern day America is this: we have a penchant for putting people in cages. More than any other nation on the planet, we rely on\u00a0incarceration\u00a0as the fix for our social ills. America\u2019s unprecedented prison boom spawned advocates who work tirelessly to put the police state &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/06\/01\/the-appeal-sex-registries-as-modern-day-witch-pyres-why-criminal-justice-reform-advocates-need-to-address-the-treatment-of-people-on-the-sex-offender-registry\/\" class=\"more-link\">[The Appeal] Sex Registries as Modern-Day Witch Pyres: Why Criminal Justice Reform Advocates Need to Address the Treatment of People on the Sex Offender Registry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-notes","7":"category-sorn-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}