The sex offender industry: follow the money
May 12, 2025 Sandy Rozek "Sex offender" treatment , Civil commitment , Industrial Complex , John Walsh , Law enforcement , Sex Offender Industry , Sex offender registries , US Marshals Facebook Email Bluesky Mastodon Gmail X Reddit Share By Sandy . . . Follow the money trail. How often has this advice been given, and how often has the heeding of it led to the unraveling of an enigma or a crime. The sex offender industry is both an enigma and a crime, and following the money trail reveals what lies at the heart and continues to drive this occasionally well-meaning but more often self-serving and punitive complexity of businesses, individuals, and motivations that comprise the billion-dollar “sex offender” industry. The industry is well diversified. It has three well-developed branches and a fourth smaller but highly important one. The first, and certainly the lynch pin that holds it all together, is the appeal to the public for secur...