Time to tear up the Sex Offenders Register / Spiked, 13 Jan 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAF1C.htm
Rob Lyons
"While there is certainly an argument that certain people who are assessed as representing an ongoing threat after their release should be monitored, the cases included here all involve people who will have criminal records for the next few years as a result of their actions. What purpose is served by placing them on a register, too? This law is directed not at the offence but at the offender. What the register succeeds in doing is giving official approval to the notion that sexual offenders are a peculiar breed of criminal who are far more likely to strike again - even though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary."