Lukol Directory: Society: Crime: Sex Offenses: News and Media

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

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_9...

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

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

Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest
Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address.
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/1999092...

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.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/199...

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/

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...

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...

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/JA...

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.h...

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/pedophi...

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.orange.fr/centralparkattacks/

Outreach: Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators
Article about the new construction.
http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes....

Outreach: U.S. Supreme Court decision may affect SVPs in California facilities
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/pages/indexes....

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

ResearchWire:  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

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/1998/08/1...

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-...

Bill Caldwell
Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator.
http://www.geocities.com/johndcrank/

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.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/199...

Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim
Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.
http://www.justicedenied.org/bruce.htm

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/04...

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

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/toug...

Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape
Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mic...

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/marqu...

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-...

San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune: ASH expansion in state budget
Governor's proposed spending plan would finance $33 million addition to house 250 sexual predators
http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes....

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/

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

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/...

Outreach: Psych Techs injured in altercations with sexually violent predators at Atascadero

http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes....

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.ra...

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...

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

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/index.php?page=1558

California Child Molesters Could Face Chemical Castration
CNN article written prior to the bill's passage with links to related articles.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/29/castration/

Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore
Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.
http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/ar...

Outreach: Sexually Violent Predators: What happens after they've served time?
Atascadero Psych Techs and the SVP program.
http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes....

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/sto...

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/co...

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/...

Tales From the Dark Side
New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash...

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/a...

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/ne...

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/met...

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_opi...

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/23of...

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

Take Back The News - Break The Silence
A 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.org


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