The Sex Offender Registry Fails Again: Sextortion Crimes Continue to Rise Across Tampa Bay Area

ABC Action News for Tampa Bay reports that sextortion crimes targeting children are up by 67% in the past year. And similar crimes against adults are up by 47%. We note that this increase took place during a time when Florida had in place, the most robust, most draconian sex offender registration scheme it has ever had, viewed by some

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VIDEO: Volusia County Council Considering Banishment Ordinances for People on the Sex Offender Registry

The Volusia County Council members were considering drafting an ordinance that would expand the state’s residency restriction requirement from 1000 feet to 1500 feet for all people on the sex offender registry.   Additionally, they wanted an ordinance that would make it illegal for any adult who was unaccompanied by a minor to enter a county playground area. Fortunately, there were

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Everyone Knows the Election Police Force Is a Failure Except DeSantis

The media has been doing a good job of informing the public about Florida’s attempts to combat voter fraud being no more than political propaganda. The recurring theme from numerous news sites is that people charged with voter fraud in counties where DeSantis did well in the 2020 election received barely a slap on the hand, while individuals in dark

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Client Evaluations of Sex-Offender Therapy

Most research dealing with the effectiveness of sex-offender therapy has been quantitative, mainly looking at the sexual recidivism rates “as the primary measure of successful outcomes in criminal rehabilitation, while other indicators of client improvement and well-being have been ignored” (Levenson et al., 2020; National Academies of Sciences & Medicine, 2022).  Much of the qualitative research on sex-offender treatment appears

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Research Debunks Stranger-Danger Myth

In Bacon’s Rebellion blog, June 18, 2023, Dick Hall-Sizemore expressed surprise that the Crime in Virginia 2022 report, page 21, found that “the relationship of the offender to the victim in forcible sex offenses in 2022” was known by the victim 91% of the time. Approximately 93% of minors know their perpetrator, thereby debunking the stranger-danger myth.  The offenders are

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