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The primary purpose of these laws is the idea that people should know if a sex offender lives near them or works by them,

where having that information would help keep the rest of us safer.

Part of the thinking also is that being on the list would discourage recidivism,

and that's a term that simply refers to someone who has been convicted of a crime offending again.

Safety and justice, those are the assumptions.

This debate is about whether those assumptions have proven valid,

now that we have had three decades to see their impact,

and whether the price paid for being on a registry is justified practically, and also morally.

The question we're asking, do sex offender registries do more harm than good?

Let's get to it.

So let's meet our guests now, and again, the question is, does the sex offender registry do more harm than good?

We will have one debate or answering yes to that question, and the other answering no.

Our yes is from Emily Horowitz. Emily is a sociologist who researches sex offence law and policy.

She is the author of Protecting Our Kids question mark, how sex offender laws are failing us.

And also from rage to reason, why we need sex crime laws based on facts, not fear.

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