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If we're comparing to the average prisoner then it filters out a lot of the chaff that you were suggesting (like parking tickets, which you do not go to prison
by Vraxx 10y ago
If we're comparing to the average prisoner then it filters out a lot of the chaff that you were suggesting (like parking tickets, which you do not go to prison for). I agree it's not a perfect metric, but it makes more sense than comparing to an average citizen who may or may not have even committed a crime.
- jessriedel 10y agoWhen we are deciding who's rights to infringe outside of prison to prevent future crimes, it is absolutely pertinent to compare the average citizen to the ex-con, in addition to many other factors like the severity of the future crime. This is especially true because the author isn't arguing that we should be making other ex-cons register (inviting the comparison between the recitivism of sexual ex-cons and non-sexual ex-cons), he's arguing that we shouldn't make sexual ex-cons register because it's ineffective and cruel. The other types of criminals are basically orthogonal to this argument.