A false sense of security and an illusion of public safety? (Asha Bajpai, South Asia Monitor)

Recently, many expressed their anger and resentment towards a sex offender and voiced outrage for a juvenile justice system that would release such a person after ‘only three years’ in a correction home. Very few were willing to give the offender a chance, or accept him in their neighbourhood. People hate and despise such sexual offenders and think they should be ‘locked up for life’. Other criminals also consider them too abominable to associate with; remember the reported assault of an accused in the Nirbhaya case in prison by fellow prisoners. The Indian government has started work on putting together a register of convicted sex offenders that will also be published

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