The New York Times, Bay Area Blog, April 13, 2010 by Gerry Shih
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/after-another-murder-another-proposed-law/
Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, told The New York Times that sex offender laws were sometimes nothing more than a barometer of public opinion. “They’re a plebiscite on sex offenders, and no one likes sex offenders,” Professor Zimring said. “It’s not like they have a lobbying group.”