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*[http://www.centerforsexualjustice.org/2015/08/27/study-sexual-assaults-lower-in-neighborhoods-with-more-registered-sex-offenders/ Study: Sexual Assaults Lower in Neighborhoods With More Registered Sex Offenders]
*[http://www.centerforsexualjustice.org/2015/08/27/study-sexual-assaults-lower-in-neighborhoods-with-more-registered-sex-offenders/ Study: Sexual Assaults Lower in Neighborhoods With More Registered Sex Offenders]
:Sex offender registries are premised on the belief that there is a correlation between re-offense and victim proximity. The underlying assumption is that more sexual assaults will occur in places where sex offenders live. (David Booth - [[CSJ]], US)<!-- Added 9-10-15 -->
::Sex offender registries are premised on the belief that there is a correlation between re-offense and victim proximity. The underlying assumption is that more sexual assaults will occur in places where sex offenders live. (David Booth - [[CSJ]], US)<!-- Added 9-10-15 -->


*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/20/why-we-understand-so-little-about-pedophilia-and-sex-crimes-against-children/?postshare=681440360345022 The Jared Fogle case: Why we understand so little about child sex abuse]
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/20/why-we-understand-so-little-about-pedophilia-and-sex-crimes-against-children/?postshare=681440360345022 The Jared Fogle case: Why we understand so little about child sex abuse]

Revision as of 11:16, 28 September 2015

Popular interest

The crusade against historical sex abuse is destroying due process. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)
How our sex offender laws punish more than just the convicted. ( Radley Balko, The Washington Post, US)
On June 15, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank struck down Minnesota's law allowing for the civil commitment of so-called sexually violent predators. SVP laws allow a person to be locked away indefinitely after he has completed his maximum prison sentence. Twenty states and the federal government have passed such laws, and over 5,000 SVPs are incarcerated at an annual cost in excess of 450 million dollars. (Lave and McCrary, The Huffington Post, US)
“predator-free zones” put an entire town or county off limits, sometimes for life, even for those whose offenses had nothing to do with children. (The New York Times, US)
Sex offender registries are premised on the belief that there is a correlation between re-offense and victim proximity. The underlying assumption is that more sexual assaults will occur in places where sex offenders live. (David Booth - CSJ, US)
Reading the news that former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty to possessing hundreds of pornographic images of children and having sex with underage girls, it is hard not to be horrified. (Sarah Kaplan - The Washington Post, US)
In the 2002 case McKune v. Lile, the Supreme Court upheld a Kansas law that imposed harsher sentences on sex offenders who declined to participate in a prison rehab program.(Radley Balko - The Washington Post, US)
The inquisition into historical allegations of abuse is out of control.(Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)
Historic sex abuse claims have fuelled the UK’s compensation industy.(Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)
The child-protection industry is constructing the crime it claims to combat. (Tim Black - spiked, UK)
Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid hush money to cover up sexual misconduct with a male student dating to his time as a coach and teacher in Yorkville, according to a source familiar with the investigation. ( Natasha Korecki - Chicago Sun Times, US)
J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.” (Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Mark Berman - The Washington Post, US)
Police trawling for child-abuse cases is an affront to justice. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)