"It's a misconception to think of the sex offender only as the parish priest," said Jonah Rockoff, assistant professor of business and economics at Columbia University's graduate school of business.Instead, the majority of sex-offenders abuse members of their own family or people they know, said Becky Palmer, a social worker at the Alternative Behavior Treatment Centers who works with sex offenders.Experts say communities shouldn't worry so much about convicted… [read post]