Author: FAC Contributor #9

Citrus County Judge Richard Howard ruled Monday that being on the Florida sex offense registry for life was a suitable punishment for a 21-year-old woman who sexually coerced and molested a teenage boy.  Please make sure that you read carefully the part that said the registry was suitable PUNISHMENT. The woman plead no contest to two counts of lewd and

The Minnesota Sex Offender Program originally established the civil detention program for those individuals convicted of a crime and diagnosed with a psychopathic personality.  It did not take long, though, for the program to shift to those convicted of a sexual offense.  What was initially called a civil commitment center has now become an expansion of Minnesota’s state prisons.  

Pedophilia is a clinical diagnosis which does not apply to most people who commit a sex offense, but there is a small percentage who do suffer from this condition.  Why?  What makes them different?  Are they truly bad people wanting to hurt others?  The science on this subject gives a resounding NO!   For over a century, numerous treatments have

As Patch continues to put out their fall maps, they have started toning it down a bit, as this is the second year that they have included information on why these maps might not be as helpful as they once touted them to be. This particular article lets the reader know: Registries play only a limited role in preventing sex

Living on the registry is punitive enough, but when you are also on sex offense probation, life is even worse.  Besides the ankle monitor and the strict liability laws that go with it, everyone agrees that SO probation is far worse than any other type of probation, including that for released murderers. We have a member that would like to

This study looked at 25 years of Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) evaluations and their effects on recidivism.  Results were looked at from 18 research articles which included 474,640 formerly incarcerated individuals.  This is the first study to ever use a meta-analysis of SORN’s effectiveness on recidivism, combining statistical results of numerous studies into one comprehensive study of SORN.