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Rape and Molestation of Women
Documented cases of rape and molestation by the Indian troops in Kashmir.
http://www.ummah.org.uk/kashmir/atroc/rape.htm
Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape
Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/rape.html
Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore
Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.
http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/art30198.htm
Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release
California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser.
http://www.markwelch.com/molestpr.htm
Tougher
Requires states to inform the public when a convicted sex offender considered a danger to the public is released from prison and settles in the neighborhood.
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9605/08/sex.offenders/index.shtml
ResearchWire:Â Megan's Law
The Web's 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.
http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm
Considerations for Assessing Family Reunification in Cases Involving Incest-Type Sex Offenders
These considerations are presented as a general framework for therapists, human resource workers, guardians and legal professionals when family reunification becomes a goal after an incest child sex offense has been committed.
http://www.pace-custody.org/newsletter11.html
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.
http://www.frc.org/insight/is94g2cr.html
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.
http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/
Pedophiles and Child Molesters: The Slaughter of Innocence
A pedophile will usually exhibit a series of personality characteristics. It is important to understand that these characteristics alone do not conclusively determine that a person is a pedophile.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial/pedophiles/6.htm
Emotional Rape Syndrome
Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it.
http://www.flash.net/~mikefox/home.htm
Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity
No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html
Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest
Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address.
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/1999092112
Sex Offender Data Online-- Gates to NW Law
Articles and Resources on Offender Registration.
http://www.wolfenet.com/~dhillis/sexoffen4.htm
Tales From the Dark Side
New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html
Civil Commitment for Sexual Predators
Florida became one of a handful of states with laws allowing the civil commitment of sex offenders after they had completed their prison sentences.
http://www.cjjohns.com/c_law/civil_sexual.html
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.
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html
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.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/16/front_page/PRAPE16.htm
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.
http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/03/01/lo030100a.htm
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.
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html
California Child Molesters Could Face Chemical Castration
Child molesters could face "chemical castration" under a unique and controversial California bill aimed at stifling the sex drives of convicted pedophiles.
http://cnn.com/US/9608/29/castration/
Supreme Court Ruling on Sex Predators Spurs States Into Action
Sex offenders from New England to the Hawaiian Islands may want to stop crossing off the days on their cellblock calendars.
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/nation/062697/nation19_6666.html
Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery
An intimate memoir, full of light and hope, about a woman's journey toward overcoming the effects of a violent rape.
http://www.tellingofrape.com
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.
http://centralohio.thesource.net/97/dec/043.html
Kansas' Sexual Offender Registry Is Irresponsible and Overrated
New technology at its best, right? No, this is just part 2 of the state's warped and illogical system of justice for sex-crime perpetrators.
http://www.dailynews.net/ottawa/herald_opinion/sexual.html
Lubbock Firm Sues DPS For Refusal to Release Database
A Lubbock firm that does criminal background checks for schools and apartment communities has sued the Texas Department of Public Safety for its entire criminal conviction database.
http://amarillonet.com/stories/012198/014-4675.002.shtml
Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim
Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.
http://www.justicedenied.org/bruce.htm
Texas Puts Records Online
The records, like criminal records in many states, are already publicly available. But there's a big difference between availability through the mail or by walking into the local government office, and access via any Internet-connected PC.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2113268,00.html
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.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-323440.html?tag=
Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing
Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital.
http://www.psych-health.com/dmh2.htm
Texas To Use Genetic Fingerprints
A computer database is being filled with the DNA information of some criminals. Authorities hope for it to one day be an important crime-fighting tool both on state and national levels.
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/97/07/15/rapist-database.2-0.html
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.
http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/rape-blame.html
The Rape Blog
On-going attitude, commentary, and news regarding sexual violence in web-log format, coupled with my journey in to becoming & being a certified rape crisis counselor.
http://www.gloomsday.net/therapeblog/
Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000
Read articles related to convicted child molester, Victor Salva's new film project, "Jeepers Creepers." Covers the controversy surrounding the use of Florida schools for filming of the movie.
http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html
Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time
Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html
Central Park attacks
This site is to denounce the spree of sexual attacks that happened in Central Park during the Puerto Rican Day Parade 2000.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/centralparkattacks/
Delta Chi Rape Allegation Website
Lisa Gier King alleges that she was raped during a party on February 27, 1999 at the Delta Chi fraternity house on the University of Florida campus -- read the news articles and decide for yourself.
http://www.mindspring.com/~krypto/deltachi.html
Take Back The News - Break The Silence
A Boston activist project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media.
http://www.takebackthenews.net
Bill Caldwell
Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator.
http://www.geocities.com/johndcrank
False Rape Allegations
Paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior discussing the history of unfounded or exaggerated rape allegations.
http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/kanin.html
Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes
A criticism of sex offender registries and community notification originallly published in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 10, No. 2 (September/October 1997).
http://www.ncianet.org/stories/polnirr97.html
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.
http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/863/article3579.asp
Sexual Predator Program to Expand At Atascadero State Hospital
Atascadero State Hospital will receive nearly $33 million to build a 250-bed addition designed specifically for men convicted of multiple sexual assaults.
http://www.psych-health.com/svp5.htm
U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Affect SVPs in California Facilities
The U.S. Supreme Court says violent sexual predators - such as those at Atascadero State Hospital - can be kept in custody even after they have served their prison terms.
http://www.psych-health.com/svp3.htm
Sexually Violent Predators: What Happens After They've Served Time?
Atascadero Psych Techs are willing to start treatment, but SVPs hold out for court appeals.
http://www.psych-health.com/svp2.htm
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.
http://www.psych-health.com/svp1.htm
Scotland rules out Sarah's Law
Violent sex offenders in Scotland face lifelong supervision by the police and social services in an overhaul of the country's criminal justice system unveiled today.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,618279,00.html
Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports
Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally.
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html
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.
http://www.intercerve.com/News/wral2.htm
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.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA96/levine_jump.html
Legislation Denying Convicted Sex Offenders Access to the Internet
Sexual degenerates seem a strange group to protect. Most have been irremediably warped by exposure to the Internet's fields of psychic rupture, and electronic brain rot.
http://www.merlin.org/legal/faircloth.html
Stricter Rules Cut Number of Assaults
From staff and wire reports tougher parole measures for sex offenders have helped push down the number of sexual assaults in Texas by 17 percent since 1993, the executive director of the Criminal Justice Policy Council said.
http://amarillonet.com/stories/121996/tougher.html
Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney
Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva.
http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html
Sex Predators Can't Be Saved
There can be no dispute that monsters live among us. The only question is what to do with them once they become known to us.
http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9301_a.html
Victim's Rights Abuse Protest
Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/3053/home.html
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.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/fp3s1-csm.htm
Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes
As appeared in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 10, No. 2.
http://www.igc.org/ncia/cns.html
Uncivil Liberties
While electronic freedom fighters wage battles to protect our access to information on the Internet, who is watching to protect us from harassment by information on the Internet? by Frank Catalano.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9810/byteme-catalano.shtml
Clinton Calls for National Sex Offender Registry
President Clinton used his weekly radio address Saturday to call for a national registry of sex offenders. (CNN)
http://www.cnn.co.uk/US/9606/22/clinton.radio/
Registering Sex Offenders an Imperfect Answer
Law puts the responsibility for tracking sex offenders on virtually everyone but law enforcement agencies.
http://www.bouldernews.com/news/local/23offend.html
Sex Offenders May Not Register Address Changes, But Who's Checking?
AP - During a traffic stop last November, a Macomb County Sheriff's deputy discovered convicted sex offender Warren Tucker had failed to register a change of address with the state.
http://freep.com/news/mich/qoffend5.htm
A Series of Articles
including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
http://www.jsonline.com/sexoffender/
Plan Proposed To Notify Sex Offenders' Neighbors
Houston Chronicle - When posters and fliers warning of a child molester appeared mysteriously in a neighborhood here, residents quickly called Fort Bend County authorities.
http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/page1/97/11/25/notify.2-1.html
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.
http://www.sunnews.com/news/suburbs/berea/1998/predator.htm
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.
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html
Sex Offender Web Site Draws Fire from Virginia ACLU
ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Kent Willis called the site a "total invasion of privacy" and said it is tantamount to the state encouraging vigilante justice.
http://archive.aclu.org/news/1999/w010499a.html
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 "Megan's Laws" across the country.
http://archive.aclu.org/news/w110198a.html
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