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July 1 marked the 10th anniversary of Tennessee’s Juvenile Sex Offender Registry. In Tennessee, kids can be placed on a lifetime private registry if adjudicated of certain offenses involving delinquent sexual behaviors. There are hundreds of kids on Tennessee’s registry and nationally the Juvenile Law Center estimates there are over 200,000 kids on registries in 38 states…some states have no bottom age when kids can be placed on registries and so there are kids who were as young as 8 when their alleged delinquency occurred that placed them on a registry. With Host Christina Kleiser, Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau discusses her 30 years of research on child sexual abuse and tells us why registries harm children, families, communities and public safety.
By In Defense of Children PodcastJuly 1 marked the 10th anniversary of Tennessee’s Juvenile Sex Offender Registry. In Tennessee, kids can be placed on a lifetime private registry if adjudicated of certain offenses involving delinquent sexual behaviors. There are hundreds of kids on Tennessee’s registry and nationally the Juvenile Law Center estimates there are over 200,000 kids on registries in 38 states…some states have no bottom age when kids can be placed on registries and so there are kids who were as young as 8 when their alleged delinquency occurred that placed them on a registry. With Host Christina Kleiser, Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau discusses her 30 years of research on child sexual abuse and tells us why registries harm children, families, communities and public safety.