Sex Offenders

I am married to a barrister and our son is a solicitor, so I have spent a lot of time in the company of judges and other lawyers. I am also a statistician.

If you look at child abuse most of it occurs within the family and a lot is undetected until many years later, or there is a divorce or break-up.

So the Sex Offenders Register may catch those that are obvious, but are we spending too much time concentrating on those we know about, rather than using such things as education and health professionals to make sure the abuse doesn’t happen in the first place.

I also do a lot of work on spam-reduction on the Internet. If governments, such as the US, China and Russia, would impose the rules that the EU has done, it would cut one of the delivery channels for much of the filth on the Internet.