A Prison by any Other Name - At the Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality treatment center, they lock up men who are dangerous--or unlucky--enough to be tabbed menaces to society even after they've done their prison time. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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A Question of Abuse - What followed for the Diamonds was a nightmare, executed by a system so zealous to protect children from perceived sexual abuse that it may fracture their families and crush their spirits in the process. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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A Series of Articles - including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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ACLU Affiliates Combat Sexual Offenders Lists - ACLU offices in three states -- West Virginia, California, and Michigan -- are currently battling the privacy-threatening sexual offender registries required by "Megans Laws" across the country. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Announcement of Sexual Predator In Area Is Concern To Community - Notification letters were sent out recently by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department and local school district officials, including Parma, informing residents and parents about the presence of a convicted sex offender in their community. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Bill Seeks to Confine Some Sex Offenders Longer - A U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year has paved the way for Ohio and other states to move forward with legislation that would allow certain child molesters and other sex offenders to be confined past the point they have served a prison sentence. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Emotional Rape Syndrome - Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Ensuring Notification - It is an unfortunate quirk in Nevada's sex offender notification law that in most cases only certain groups -not individuals - may be informed when a sex offender moves into the community. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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False Rape Allegations - The author discusses the history of unfounded rape allegations, and how legitimate cases of rape were discounted until pressure from women's groups caused them to be taken more seriously. However, the pendulum has now swung the other way. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill - Despite a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing involuntary civil commitment for violent sex offenders, Assembly Judiciary Chairman Bernie Anderson is going slow on a bill to enact such laws in Nevada. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Moore Denies Predator Label - David Ellis Moore says he isn't a sexual predator, even though he allowed himself to be tagged as one, and he plans to challenge it in court. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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No Safe Place - This is a companion site to the PBS documentary film which tells the stories of women who have been battered, assaulted, and raped, as well as the stories of the men who commit these crimes. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Police Reopen Thousands of Dumped Cases - The Philadelphia Police Department has launched a massive effort to reinvestigate more than 2,000 reported rapes, indecent assaults and other sex offenses dating to 1995 - cases that had been shelved by the police sex-crimes unit, often after little or no investigation. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Policing Sex Offenders - Convicted sex offenders are being released into society with growing frequency. Although more than half the states have programs to monitor these offenders, the programs often don't work. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Prostitution Arrests Posted Online - A 30-year-old Minnesota man was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute from his blue Ford pickup within the past 18 months. Now his name and picture are displayed on the Net, exposing his arrest not only to his neighbors, but also to people around the world. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators - Small groups of Atascadero State Hospital patients in the relatively new category of "sexually violent predator" recently caused two altercations with Psych Techs and other staff, raising concerns that they may be testing the hospital's security and safety procedures. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame - Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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ResearchWire:Â Megan's Law - The Webs impact on information occasionally sparks controversy. Privacy advocates, for example, challenge existing public records laws that fail to address, or clearly allow, making personal data available via Web sites. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Sex Offender Has Lakewood Residents Mad - Lakewood, Ohio, - Nearly 2,000 Lakewood residents called the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's department concerned about a sexual offender who has moved into their city. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Sex Offender List Violates Privacy - Few can argue that the media--both print and electronic--have made for a more informed public, it sometimes oversteps its bounds and provides more harmful gossip than valuable information. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Sex Offender Online Registry is a Busy Site - The state's online registry of sex offenders debuted Wednesday morning and its been busy ever since. By 2:00 a.m. Thursday, the registry had counted 40,700 searches. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Sex Offender Policy Creates Controversy - When the state Sex Offender Registry sent Marshfield police Chief William Sullivan a disclosure last Monday of a convicted child rapist living in town, Sullivan did not release the information immediately, as is required by state law. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Sex-Crime Laws Draw More Flak - California case highlights tension between children's safety and offenders' privacy. Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill - Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall urged a Senate committee Friday to approve legislation that would allow the state to use "chemical castration" in an effort to prevent sex offenders from repeating their crimes. (Added: 01 Jan 2001
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