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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cribber" data-source="post: 3225948" data-attributes="member: 141540">I think the main problems would come in the initial switch over from "not naming" to "naming".Once naming was the norm it would then become another part of the punishment and one of the measures designed to prevent the crimes happening in the first place (surely the best outcome all round?).You can't prevent paedophiles existing but maybe, just maybe, you can make their lives so horrible, if they act on those impulses, that they restrain themselves voluntarily.Maybe if they knew they'd be put in prison, registered for life AND exiled from society by anyone that knew their real identity there might be a certain percentage that wouldn't offend at all?Perhaps anonymity helps them re-offend?</blockquote>