Media

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• Society: Crime: News and Media  (10)

• Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape - Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
• Bill Caldwell - Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator.
• 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.
• 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.
• Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time - Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity - No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
• Take Back The News - Break The Silence - A project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim - Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.

• 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. (December 13, 2001)
• Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest - Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address. (September 21, 1999)
• Tales From the Dark Side - New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee. (September 28, 1998)
• 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. (August 13, 1998)
• 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. (July 10, 1998)
• A Series of Articles - including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. (March 29, 1998)
• 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. (March 27, 1998)
• 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. (March 12, 1998)
• 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. (February 21, 1998)
• 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. (January 12, 1998)
• Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing - Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital. (January, 1998)
• Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore - Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief. (January, 1998)
• 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. (December 9, 1997)
• 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. (July, 1997)
• 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. (July, 1997)
• 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. (June 27, 1997)
• 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. (June 18, 1997)
• 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 security and safety procedures. (May, 1997)
• 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. (August 29, 1996)
• 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. (May 8, 1996)
• Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney - Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva. (October 5, 1995)
• 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. (November 7, 1994)
• 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. (January 5, 1993)
• 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. (April, 1991)