J. Crew is massively overpriced for what you're getting (cheap, generic, business casual clothing). At least with more high-end designers (Tory Burch) you're getting something stylish/perhaps not made with sweatshop labor.

The study you were referring to was a single study referenced in the BBC program. It was my understanding that porn viewing was considered a "risk factor" for violent attitudes, as are a number of other things that we associate with antisocial behavior (childhood abuse and neglect, mental illness, intellectual…

Y'all need to edit your title, which is a straight-up lie. Even ignoring the problems with the study (small sample size, recorder bias), the study you're citing only concluded that there was correlation between watching porn and negative gender attitudes. It did not state that there was a causation between watching…

It sounds like the initial news reports were out-of-state kidnapping, torture, and attempted murder ("left for dead"). By definition, that would be a more serious crime that would merit more punishment. You really don't see any different between what happened and the initial allegations?

In that case, she was put of the sex offender list because she told the police that her partner was a minor (same age as her).

I have spoken to children that I believe will re-offend at every stage of their lives, children who will always pose a threat to others.

No problem. It's a pretty common myth.

I'm so sorry that you've had to go through that. I wish your cousin the best. He is not alone: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

Sex offenders do not have a high risk of recommitting; in fact, their risk is lower than other offenders according to peer-reviewed studies.

Leading experts in juvenile criminology say that you cannot make that determination, whether or not a juvenile will re-offend, at that young age. You may believe that they will re-offend, but you have no way of knowing that. No experts have been successful in predicting that. That's why placing someone on a sex…

Do you have any response to this human rights report, documenting that children's human rights are violated when they are placed on sex registries?: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

It's not a myth. Here's a human rights report on the issue, feel free to pass it along to your law enforcement and legal friends: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

There is a "registry" for social workers, judges, and police: a person's criminal record. That kind of felony doesn't just disappear, it's in your criminal record forever.

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It's not a myth. People also end up on the registry for mooning their friends in public .

A.V.'s race and his parent's inability to hire a lawyer? Just an educated guess.

I've read a case where two minors both ended up on the sex offender registry for having consensual sex with each other. I've read about young minor women who have gotten pregnant and end up on the sex offender registry because they had sex with a minor. The registry system sucks and for the author of this story to…

I'm leery of dismantling a system designed—however imperfectly—to protect past and future victims, when support for victims is scant enough as it is.

Minors who commit serious and violent crimes are products of their environment. It's not just that their brains don't work the way adult brains do. It's that they are typically abused themselves, physically and/or sexually, and they have no way of escaping that because the are minors. That doesn't diminish the…

I wouldn't call Kiran Bedi a human rights activist. She's a politician who previously was warden of Delhi's Tihar Jail and did very good work reforming the jail. Human rights activists generally don't support the death penalty. Here's an anti-death penalty statement from a prominent Delhi human rights lawyer: http://…