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According to thecrimereport.org, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes. Gruber feels that “treating sex crimes differently than other crimes is not natural or neutral but rather has a political history that should be examined.” “I’m kind of saying to people, you think that

In “A Report on the High Cost of Sex Offender Incarceration” by Elizabeth J. Letourneau and Travis W. M Roberts, a research paper published with their colleagues at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the “focus was on the cost of incarcerating adults convicted of sex crimes against children in the United States.” Their study found that the

According to Reuters, a class action lawsuit has been filed against Amazon.com Inc and a background check provider, Accurate Background Inc, claiming they illegally used a California sex offender website to conduct background checks on job applicants. “Megan’s Law prohibits employers from denying jobs to applicants because their names appear on the website unless they do so to protect a

SMART (Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking) commissioned a research brief based on fallacies, doing its best to dismiss the research that casts doubt on various aspects of the sex offense registries. This research brief has ignored some of the most compelling research that has come out in the past decade, with one being the 2021

Finally, there is a lawmaker in Louisiana who is looking for ways to prevent sex crimes against children rather than wait for the crime to occur and then incarcerate, incarcerate, and incarcerate.  A lawmaker is actually thinking of being proactive rather than reactive. But her decision was only made after her horrible bill of using surgical castration failed.  It faced

The Jacksonville, Florida, New4JAX I-TEAM found that most of these 22 people registered soon after Amendment 4 passed, an amendment that restored voting rights for some people with a past felony. Blair Bowie, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., said, “Confusion around whose voting rights have been restored and whose haven’t been is absolutely rampant.”