Personally I like to use a stripplot with jitter at least to get a feel for the data. The plot below is with lattice in R (sorry not ggplot2). I like these plots because they're very easy to interpret. As you say, one reason for this is that there isn't any transform.
df <- data.frame(y1 = c(rnorm(100),-4:4), y2 = c(rnorm(100),-5:3), y3 = c(rnorm(100),-3:5))
df2 <- stack(df)
library(lattice)
stripplot(df2$values ~ df2$ind, jitter=T)
The beeswarm package offers a great alternative to stripplot (thanks to @January for the suggestion).
beeswarm(df2$values ~ df2$ind)
With your data, as it's approximately normally distributed, another thing to try might be a qqplot, qqnorm in this case.
par(mfrow=c(1,3))
for(i in 1:3) { qqnorm(df[,i]); abline(c(0,0),1,col="red") }
