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No Safe Place - http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/
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. |
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Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery - http://www.tellingofrape.com
An intimate memoir, full of light and hope, about a woman's journey toward overcoming the effects of a violent rape. |
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Take Back The News - Break The Silence - http://www.takebackthenews.org
A project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media. |
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ResearchWire: Megan's Law - http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm
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. |
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Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports - http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html
Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally. |
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Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1558
Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently. |
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Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney - http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html
Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva. |
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Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000 - http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html
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. |
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Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity - http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html
No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end. |
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Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape - http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/rape.html
Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin. |
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Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore - http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/art30198.htm
Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief. |
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Tales From the Dark Side - http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html
New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee. |
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Considerations for Assessing Family Reunification in Cases Involving Incest-Type Sex Offenders - http://www.pace-custody.org/newsletter11.html
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. |
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Scotland rules out Sarah's Law - http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,618279,00.html
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. |
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Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill - http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html
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. |
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Bill Caldwell - http://www.geocities.com/johndcrank/
Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator. |
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Tougher - http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9605/08/sex.offenders/index.shtml
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. |
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Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html
Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict. |
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Sex-Crime Laws Draw More Flak - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/fp3s1-csm.htm
California case highlights tension between children's safety and offenders' privacy. Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. |
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A Prison by any Other Name - http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/863/article3579.asp
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. |
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Uncivil Liberties - http://www.seattleweekly.com/1998-03-11/news/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. |
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A Series of Articles - http://www.jsonline.com/sexoffender/
including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. |
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Sexually Violent Predators: What Happens After They've Served Time? - http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8096
Atascadero Psych Techs are willing to start treatment, but SVPs hold out for court appeals. |
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Sexual Predator Program to Expand At Atascadero State Hospital - http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8121
Atascadero State Hospital will receive nearly $33 million to build a 250-bed addition designed specifically for men convicted of multiple sexual assaults. |
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Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators - http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8099
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 security and safety procedures. |
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Affect SVPs in California Facilities - http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8095
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. |
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Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing - http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8117
Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital. |
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Ensuring Notification - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html
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. |
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Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html
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. |
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Victim's Rights Abuse Protest - http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/3053/home.html
Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan. |