Mu Perspectives

    Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members 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: 10 times America's Sex Offender Registries were used with lethal effect

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    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...

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