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Two stories on different types of sex offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

One of many reasons that sex offender law and policy is so messy and controversial is because the term sex offender can mean so many different things in some many different contexts.  These two promientn MSM stories about different types of sex offenders brings this reality into sharp relief: From CBS News here, "Targeting Teens For Sexting" From Time magazine here, "A Florida Epidemic: Female Teachers Sleeping with Their Students" The Time story is especially interesting because it tries to unpack whether and why Florida might have an unusually large number of these unusual teacher-student sex crimes: But why should Florida seem to be experiencing an especially high number of such cases?  Are those women, and for that matter the hormonally charged boys they target, somehow egged on by the state's more sexually relaxed atmosphere, with its sultry climate and scantily clad beach culture? (California also has a high rate of teacher sexual misconduct...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).