Lawmakers established the Sex Offender Registry (SOR) under the guise of public safety, a legislative response to moral panic designed to monitor individuals convicted of sex crimes. However, decades of implementation reveal a system that functions less as a protective measure and more as a tool of social banishment. Viewing the SOR through a trauma-informed lens, we see it as a structural continuation of trauma. It prolongs punishment indefinitely after a judicial sentence i

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