News and articles directly related to sexual offenses and sexual offenders. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. A Series of Articles - including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 5. 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. 6. Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape - Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin. 7. Bill Caldwell - Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time - Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict. 12. 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. 13. Emotional Rape Syndrome - Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it. 14. 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. 15. Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing - Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore - Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief. 24. 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. 25. Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release - California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser. 26. 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. 27. Registering Sex Offenders an Imperfect Answer - Law puts the responsibility for tracking sex offenders on virtually everyone but law enforcement agencies. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest - Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address. 31. 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. 32. 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. 33. Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity - No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end. 34. 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. 35. 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. 36. 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. 37. 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. 38. 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. 39. 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. 40. Tales From the Dark Side - New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee. 41. 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. 42. 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. 43. 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. 44. 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. 45. 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. 46. 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. 47. Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney - Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva. 48. 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. 49. Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim - Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.

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