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Texas Puts Records Online 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. (News and Media) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2113268,00.html Stricter Rules Cut Number of Assaults 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. (News and Media) http://amarillonet.com/stories/121996/tougher.html Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill 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. (News and Media) http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html Announcement of Sexual Predator In Area Is Concern To Community 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. (News and Media) http://www.sunnews.com/news/suburbs/berea/1998/predator.htm Sex Offender Web Site Draws Fire from Virginia ACLU 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. (News and Media) http://archive.aclu.org/news/1999/w010499a.html Plan Proposed To Notify Sex Offenders' Neighbors 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. (News and Media) http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/page1/97/11/25/notify.2-1.html Emotional Rape Syndrome Emotional Rape Syndrome: Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it. (News and Media) http://www.flash.net/~mikefox/home.htm False Rape Allegations False Rape Allegations: Paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior discussing the history of unfounded or exaggerated rape allegations. (News and Media) http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/kanin.html A Series of Articles A Series of Articles: including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. (News and Media) http://www.jsonline.com/sexoffender/ No Safe Place 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. (News and Media) http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/ Sex-Crime Laws Draw More Flak 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. (News and Media) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/fp3s1-csm.htm Registering Sex Offenders an Imperfect Answer Registering Sex Offenders an Imperfect Answer: Law puts the responsibility for tracking sex offenders on virtually everyone but law enforcement agencies. (News and Media) http://www.bouldernews.com/news/local/23offend.html Legislation Denying Convicted Sex Offenders Access to the Internet 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. (News and Media) http://www.merlin.org/legal/faircloth.html Tougher 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. (News and Media) http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9605/08/sex.offenders/index.shtml Considerations for Assessing Family Reunification in Cases Involving Incest-Type Sex Offenders 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. (News and Media) http://www.pace-custody.org/newsletter11.html Delta Chi Rape Allegation Website 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. (News and Media) http://www.mindspring.com/~krypto/deltachi.html Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame 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. (News and Media) http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/rape-blame.html Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators 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 securit (News and Media) http://www.psych-health.com/svp1.htm Sex Predators Can't Be Saved 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. (News and Media) http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9301_a.html Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity: No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end. (News and Media) http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html Ensuring Notification 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. (News and Media) http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time: Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict. (News and Media) http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney: Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva. (News and Media) http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery 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. (News and Media) http://www.tellingofrape.com California Child Molesters Could Face Chemical Castration 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. (News and Media) http://cnn.com/US/9608/29/castration/ Take Back The News - Break The Silence 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. (News and Media) http://www.takebackthenews.net ACLU Affiliates Combat Sexual Offenders Lists 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. (News and Media) http://archive.aclu.org/news/w110198a.html Sex Offender Online Registry is a Busy Site 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. (News and Media) http://www.intercerve.com/News/wral2.htm Prostitution Arrests Posted Online 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 (News and Media) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-323440.html?tag= Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000 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. (News and Media) http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html Clinton Calls for National Sex Offender Registry 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) (News and Media) http://www.cnn.co.uk/US/9606/22/clinton.radio/ U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Affect SVPs in California Facilities 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. (News and Media) http://www.psych-health.com/svp3.htm Central Park attacks 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. (News and Media) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/centralparkattacks/ Sex Offenders May Not Register Address Changes, But Who's Checking? 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. (News and Media) http://freep.com/news/mich/qoffend5.htm Supreme Court Ruling on Sex Predators Spurs States Into Action 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. (News and Media) http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/nation/062697/nation19_6666.html Sexually Violent Predators: What Happens After They've Served Time? 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. (News and Media) http://www.psych-health.com/svp2.htm Victim's Rights Abuse Protest 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. (News and Media) http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/3053/home.html Sexual Predator Program to Expand At Atascadero State Hospital 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. (News and Media) http://www.psych-health.com/svp5.htm Police Reopen Thousands of Dumped Cases 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 (News and Media) http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/16/front_page/PRAPE16.htm Pedophiles and Child Molesters: The Slaughter of Innocence 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. (News and Media) http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial/pedophiles/6.htm Tales From the Dark Side Tales From the Dark Side: New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee. (News and Media) http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html Bill Caldwell Bill Caldwell: Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator. (News and Media) http://www.geocities.com/johndcrank Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes: As appeared in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 10, No. 2. (News and Media) http://www.igc.org/ncia/cns.html Scotland rules out Sarah's Law 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. (News and Media) http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,618279,00.html Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest: Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address. (News and Media) http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/1999092112 The Rape Blog 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. (News and Media) http://www.gloomsday.net/therapeblog/ Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes 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). (News and Media) http://www.ncianet.org/stories/polnirr97.html Bill Seeks to Confine Some Sex Offenders Longer 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. (News and Media) http://centralohio.thesource.net/97/dec/043.html Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release: California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser. (News and Media) http://www.markwelch.com/molestpr.htm Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim: Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse. (News and Media) http://www.justicedenied.org/bruce.htm Texas To Use Genetic Fingerprints 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. (News and Media) http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/97/07/15/rapist-database.2-0.html Uncivil Liberties 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. (News and Media) http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9810/byteme-catalano.shtml Civil Commitment for Sexual Predators 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. (News and Media) http://www.cjjohns.com/c_law/civil_sexual.html A Prison by any Other Name 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. (News and Media) http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/863/article3579.asp Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape: Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin. (News and Media) http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/rape.html Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing: Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital. (News and Media) http://www.psych-health.com/dmh2.htm Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill 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. (News and Media) http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html Kansas' Sexual Offender Registry Is Irresponsible and Overrated 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. (News and Media) http://www.dailynews.net/ottawa/herald_opinion/sexual.html Rape and Molestation of Women Rape and Molestation of Women: Documented cases of rape and molestation by the Indian troops in Kashmir. (News and Media) http://www.ummah.org.uk/kashmir/atroc/rape.htm A Question of Abuse 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. (News and Media) http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA96/levine_jump.html Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore: Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief. (News and Media) http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/art30198.htm ResearchWire:  Megan's Law 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. (News and Media) http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports 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. (News and Media) http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html Lubbock Firm Sues DPS For Refusal to Release Database 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. (News and Media) http://amarillonet.com/stories/012198/014-4675.002.shtml Sex Offender Data Online-- Gates to NW Law Sex Offender Data Online-- Gates to NW Law: Articles and Resources on Offender Registration. (News and Media) http://www.wolfenet.com/~dhillis/sexoffen4.htm