An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween

States, municipalities, and parole departments have adopted policies banning known sex offenders from Halloween activities, based on the worry that there is unusual risk on these days. The existence of this risk has not been empirically established. National Incident-Base Reporting System crime report data from 1997 through 2005 were used to examine daily population adjusted…

Education, Public View, Recidivism director 10/09/2017 @ 19:56

Exonerations by Contributing Factor and Type of Crime

The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry…

Public View director 04/20/2017 @ 20:52

Court agrees some North Carolina sex offender limits unlawful

RALEIGH, N.C –A federal appeals court has upheld lower court rulings that found portions of North Carolina law restricting where registered sex offenders can gather are unconstitutional because they’re overly broad or vague.  A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday affirmed the federal lower court decisions, which the state…

Public View director 12/03/2016 @ 19:26

Unique identifier provision of IML

Forward From: RegistrantTAG.org To: ALL We are reaching out to all and affiliates to respond the recent State Department notice on implementation of the unique identifier provision of IML. https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-21087.pdf https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-09-02/html/2016-21087.htm It was signed by: Bureau of Councilor Affairs Sen   Senior Advisor David T Donahue 6826     202-647-9584 We request emails, faxes, phone calls…

Family Factors, Public View director 09/10/2016 @ 13:49

Time to Revisit Sex Offender Supervision for Life

In the mid-1990s, Americans were shocked by several high-profile child victim sex offenses. In New Jersey, the abduction, rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a paroled sex offender who lived across the street horrified the state and spurred action by elected officials and state agencies. In less than four months (warp speed for…

Public View director 06/02/2016 @ 08:09

Facts and Fiction about Sex Offenders

The political outlash against sex offenders is immense, irrational, and hard for legislators to reverse. Sarah Agudo in the Northwestern University Law Review, 2008 Myth: Sex offenders are dirty old strangers who steal kids from playgrounds   An Ohio prison intake report on sex offenders imprisoned in 1992 revealed that 2.2 percent of child molesters…

Public View director 12/26/2015 @ 00:21