NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law

[Tom Johnson]

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Subject: NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law

Let the games begin: NIJ latest SORNA Challenge Are you up for the challenge? Enter NIJ's first-ever SORNA Challenge! NIJ is seeking innovative ways of developing strategies to measure the implementation costs and public safety benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)—part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006—by improving the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States. Notification and registration programs have multiple public safety purposes, and empirical research on sex offenders has grown over the past decade. No study to date, however, has examined the multifaceted effects of SORNA, specifically the wide range of costs incurred in implementing the rules or the public safety benefits achieved. A cash prize of $50,000 is available. Deadline: Oct. 31. Learn more.

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[Gillian Densmore]

Hmm-
Ok so here's a semi-philisphical question:
Crime stinks- but  aren't there better ways to adress these issues than the system we have developed?

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

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From: [hidden email]
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Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:32:33 PM
Subject: NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law

Let the games begin: NIJ latest SORNA Challenge Are you up for the challenge? Enter NIJ's first-ever SORNA Challenge! NIJ is seeking innovative ways of developing strategies to measure the implementation costs and public safety benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)—part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006—by improving the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States. Notification and registration programs have multiple public safety purposes, and empirical research on sex offenders has grown over the past decade. No study to date, however, has examined the multifaceted effects of SORNA, specifically the wide range of costs incurred in implementing the rules or the public safety benefits achieved. A cash prize of $50,000 is available. Deadline: Oct. 31. Learn more.

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[Steve Smith]

Gil -

Good perspective.  Optimizing the system in place isn't always anywhere near the ideal solution.

I also want to add that my work with the DoD a few years back underscored the risks of even hinting at balancing human lives or harm against expense is a very sticky-wicket.   We were building a multi-variate optimization tool because all of the existing methodologies and tools involved "putting a value on human life" which might have worked for the Generals and the Executive Branch of the moment but on average people don't like making those tradeoffs (openly?).  

I find the topic a bit creepy myself, so it is hard to consider engaging in this project (both the fact of child abuse of all kinds and the misuse/abuse of the stigma of that offense that occasionally gets leveled against innocent people), but I do think a multivariate optimization approach would be very important, allowing the bean counters and the bean counters alone to do the soul-sucking work of deciding how much a life is work.   Others can simply balance the many factors against eachother according to their own relative values and work with more complex valuations than simple linear combinations.


- Steve

Hmm-
Ok so here's a semi-philisphical question:
Crime stinks- but  aren't there better ways to adress these issues than the system we have developed?

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Looking for a creative programming project?
-tom johnson

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From: [hidden email]
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:32:33 PM
Subject: NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law

Let the games begin: NIJ latest SORNA Challenge Are you up for the challenge? Enter NIJ's first-ever SORNA Challenge! NIJ is seeking innovative ways of developing strategies to measure the implementation costs and public safety benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)—part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006—by improving the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States. Notification and registration programs have multiple public safety purposes, and empirical research on sex offenders has grown over the past decade. No study to date, however, has examined the multifaceted effects of SORNA, specifically the wide range of costs incurred in implementing the rules or the public safety benefits achieved. A cash prize of $50,000 is available. Deadline: Oct. 31. Learn more.

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