Mu Perspectives

Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members and Staff Writers in blog format. These essays do not represent the collective policies or positions of Mu, which are best summarized by our principles here, and elsewhere on our site.

Our lead authors: Brian Ribbon, Jim Burton, Percy Shelley, Tommaso Battista.

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Mu Lowdown: The 17 & 364 meme is sadly rooted in reality...

12-01-2026 17:26 / AMSC, sex offense registries, society, news-story, pop-culture, statutory-crimes, jim-burton, mu-lowdown

Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.

If you have been anything like tuned in to the Twitter/Fandom "age-gap discourse" or "Epstein saga" on social media during the last 10 years, you might have become famili...

Mu Lowdown: 10 times America's Sex Offender Registries were used with lethal effect

19-08-2025 11:58 / AMSC, sex offense registries, news-story, moral-hysteria, statutory-crimes, jim-burton, mu-lowdown

Levi Axtell was celebrated in his community for the grisly vigilante murder of a 77 year old justice-impacted individual with a moose antler. While in Axtell's case, registry data was not used to locate his target, many others demonstrate that registries have considerably increased the risk of vigilante justice for registered persons and their relatives

Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.

America is well known for its uniquely punitive Sex Offender Laws, and cruel practice of incarcerating offenders (violent or otherwise) indefinitely after they have served their time.

In the 1990s, America began to ramp up deployment of one of its great social experiments, one...