Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sex Offender Issues

Criminal Law

: Sex Offender Issues

Wait A Second, You Forgot The Moral Panic

View the article here 04/02/2009 from the no-fear-mongering-here dept A new study is out saying that the number of people arrested for soliciting sex with juveniles (or at least law enforcement posing as juveniles) online leapt fivefold from 2000 to 2006 -- but instead of using the stat to start a moral panic, people behind the study say the sharp increase doesn't signal a growing danger to kids, but rather better enforcement by police. During the same time span, arrests for... This is a summary only, to see the rest of the article, visit http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com.

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).