Cecil College student to present at national conference
Patch.com, the money-making group that likes to foster the myth that anyone with a past sex offense is out to harm children, started making changes last year after NARSOL called them out: STOP the Red Dots!
Even though Patch continued publishing their maps showing where registrants live in certain communities, they also started sharing research, debunking some myths about registrants.
Patch has gone one step further in trying to correct some of their past mistakes by publishing an article on the American Society of Criminology Conference to be held this fall in Chicago. Mentioned in the article is that Mariana Espinosa, a recent graduate from the Cecil College Department of Social Science in their criminal justice program, will have a research poster as part of their annual exhibition.
Ms. Espinosa’s work/research caught the attention of law enforcement agencies in Maryland. Ms. Espinosa found that the lack of employment and housing opportunities for registrants when released back into society, pushes them to settle in neighborhoods suffering from high poverty and high unemployment. With the lack of opportunities, registrants are more likely to re-offend within these disorganized communities.
Thank you, NARSOL, for educating Patch.
If states such as Maryland really want to decrease the likelihood of re-offending, then they will change their laws so that people released from incarceration for a sex offense can find a decent place to live, a decent-paying job, and receive family/community support.
Maryland does not have residency restrictions, mainly because of the homeless situation they have observed in Florida. See question 15 at their website.
This is great progress. It’s good to see that there are people who recognize and accept the truth when it’s pointed it out to them. Way to go!
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I think something needs to be addressed about these proximity laws. They use “as the crow” flies to measure. But there is nothing mentioned in any of them that I’ve seen addressing high rise buildings. Take Miami for instance. What if I owned a condo on the 20th floor of a building? That’s an additional 200 feet (approximately) from the ground floor of the address used to measure the distance from a school, playground, day care etc. But that extra distance is not taken into account at all. 🤔
With all the spreading of false information and lies this group has done, its a little too late for them to even try to fix all the damage they have done.