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Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms.   |
InternetNews
September 11, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
KIDS Act: How Far is The Law's Online Reach? The KIDS Act of 2007 would require sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses. But some think that goes too far. |
ifeminists
June 16, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
A travesty of sex offender status Apparently, the annual World Naked Bike Ride in Boulder is an event intended primarily to protest oil dependency and to spotlight the vulnerability of cyclists on the road. |
Inc.
November 2005
Max Chafkin |
Megan's Law and Your Business What employers need to know about the new national sex offender registry. Because sex offender status is generally considered public information, companies could be held liable for not using the database. |
ifeminists
October 24, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Do not believe sex offender registries The vague, ambiguous or entirely misleading charges that are sometimes listed in the registries, are intentional. The law enforcement agents and bureaucrats who handled these "crimes" are aware of how absurd many of the cases are. |
Reason
March 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Zoned Out Police and prosecutors worry that onerous residency restrictions will push sex offenders onto the streets or discourage them from complying with registration requirements, making them harder to track. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Deletes More Sex Offenders MySpace has deleted another 29,000 sex offender member profiles from its network, Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam confirmed today. |
Salon.com
January 24, 2002
Pegi Taylor |
Out of the frying pan, into group therapy A new Supreme Court ruling could increase the number of former sex offenders released into the community. For these ex-cons, the end of detention marks the beginning of intense, and possibly endless, therapy... |
InternetNews
July 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
House OKs Stronger Online Child Protections Wide-ranging legislation targets persons deceptively luring children to sex sites. |
Reason
July 2007
Jeff Taylor |
Little Criminals Locking up bad kids with bad adults has long been recognized as counterproductive. Yet a recent report from the Justice Policy Institute reveals that many states simply do not have enough juvenile detention slots for young offenders, even those who commit nonviolent crimes. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2008 |
Lawmakers Fight Online Sexual Predators New York lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday that would provide new protection from convicted sex offenders hanging out on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. |
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley |
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. |
InternetNews
December 12, 2006
Roy Mark |
Virginia AG Pushes Social-Network Legislation A new proposal would require convicted sex offenders to register e-mail addresses and IM names. |
Reason
June 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Missing Pedophiles New research indicates that the idea that the Internet has fostered a "shocking increase in the sexual exploitation of children," as Newsweek put it in 2001, appears to be unfounded. |
CIO
June 1, 2002
Stephanie Overby |
Long Arm of the Law In an effort to reduce recidivism and protect the community, certain districts are using a GPS-based monitoring system, which includes a 4-pound GPS receiver ("the box") and an anklet containing a radio frequency transmitter that tethers released criminals to the box |
InternetNews
December 8, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senators Want More Protection For Social Networks Proposed legislation would require registered sex offenders to submit e-mail addresses to authorities. |
InternetNews
May 21, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Releases Predator Names to AGs MySpace complies with an open letter request penned by eight attorneys general. |
InternetNews
December 6, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Can MySpace Protect Its People? MySpace said this week it has found a way to protect its users from convicted sexual offenders, but Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal calls it "ineffective." |
InternetNews
July 11, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Digs Up More Sex Offenders In response to a subpoena by New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram, MySpace this week handed over information on sex offenders that joined the service since May 21. |
InternetNews
July 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
NJ AG Pushing MySpace For More Data MySpace parent-company Fox Interactive Media has until Monday to respond to demands from New Jersey's new chief law enforcement officer to provide more details on convicted sex offenders who have profiles on the social networking site |
ifeminists
May 11, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Sex offender hysteria kills children I simply do not believe society now produces 10x, 20x, 100x more sexual offenders than it did a few decades ago when children walked home from school alone and safely. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
InternetNews
August 1, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
New Jersey AG Back To MySpace For More, Again New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has subpoenaed MySpace, again, for the names and addresses of sex offenders using the social network. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
ifeminists
March 30, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
America's caste system: sex offenders They are the new untouchables who live under different laws than the rest of us. America has embraced a caste system. |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Law Needs New Category of Sexual Assault On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that when a woman rescinds consent during sex, the man becomes guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. Such laws trivialize the crime of rape and encourage false accusations that, in turn, threaten the credibility of actual rape victims. |
ifeminists
October 19, 2009 |
A correction gratefully received..... A reader writes in to correct a point of information in an article regarding juvenile sexual offenders. |
Wired
October 2009
Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
AGs Ask MySpace For Predator Data Eight attorneys general sent a letter to MySpace today, asking it to turn over the names of sex offenders who use the site. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2003 |
Abstinence: Information for Teens What is sex?... "All my friends are having sex"... What are the risks of having sex?... What is abstinence?... "I had sex, but now I wish I hadn't"... How will I know I am ready to have sex?... etc. |
ifeminists
April 11, 2007
McCormick & Sacks |
Texas Bill to Create Domestic Violence Offender Registry Will Harm Innocent Men House Bill 3958 will set up a domestic violence offender registry similar to the Texas Sex Offender Registry. There are serious problems with the way law enforcement and the judicial system handle domestic violence. These problems will cause many innocent men to be ensnared by this bill. |
ifeminists
October 22, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Sacred Feces! Man arrested for making coffee naked in own home A man was arrested for indecent exposure for being naked in his own kitchen. WTRV reports the circumstances |
Salon.com
September 5, 2000
Leah Kohlenberg |
Castrating chemicals A sexually abusive doctor claims he's been cured by a testosterone-reducing drug called Lupron. |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Reason
February 2002
Cathy Young |
Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws... |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
Social Networking Faces More Legal Pressure States attorneys general have been pressuring social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook for months to toughen their age and identity verifications standards. |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
Reason
March 2007
Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up. |
ifeminists
March 4, 2003
Tracy Quan |
U.S. lags on sex laws America's prostitution policies are so backward in comparison to those of most advanced countries that we provoke sarcastic comparisons with Islamic theocracies. Given our self-image as a secular democracy, this is more than embarrassing. It's bizarre. |
ifeminists
January 14, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
When Is It Rape? On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that if a woman rescinds consent during the sex act, the man is guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. The prosecution of rape used to be skewed against women. Now it seems to be skewed against men. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
John R. Quain |
Virtual Life, Real Crime? As a crime wave sweeps Second Life, adherents are looking for answers. |
Wired
September 25, 2007
Brendan I. Koerner |
Mr. Know-It-All: Sex-Offender Witch Hunt, Facebook Fibs, Radio-Tagged Deer Get the facts before worrying about a registered sex offender moving into your neighborhood... Stretching the truth on Facebook... Do ear tags on animals cause pain?... |
Scientific American
November 12, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Partial to Crime Families become suspects as government rules on DNA matches relax. |
Reason
August 2002
Thomas Szasz |
Sins of the Fathers Is child molestation a sickness or a crime? |
Reason
September 2005
Kerry Howley |
Lifetime Commitment Pilot GPS projects are popping up in jurisdictions across the U.S., and more than 30 states are now slapping anklets on paroled sex offenders. |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2008
Ralph C. Jensen |
Can I Come In? New access-control devices are an important addition to the sophisticated work that one Texas school district is doing to protect its students. |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
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A Jail Sentence For "Sexting?" An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to reduced charges in Vermont's first "sexting" case, in which he allegedly directed two teenage girls to videotape or photograph themselves performing sex acts and send him the results. |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
