Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies: Criminal Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Criminal Law

Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
By "eAdvocate"

Post Frequency: 10.2/day

Last Entry: October 03, 2020 at 00:40:04

MA- Massachusetts breastfeeding bill: not a moment too soon

Posted on January 08, 2009
1-8-2009 Masachusetts: Following the letter of the law, until last week, a woman breastfeeding in public here in Massachusetts could theoretically be arrested for public indecency. Furthermore, if convicted, she would spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender...

UK- Suspected sex offender fell to his death 'as he fled baying vigilante gang'

Posted on January 08, 2009
1-8-2009 United Kingdom: A suspected sex offender fell 50 feet to his death from an apartment block as he fled a baying vigilante gang, a court heard today. Terrified Scott Campbell, 44, made a run for it when three men and two women turned up at his second floor flat to give him a revenge beating over claims he had sexually assaulted a 13 year-old-boy, it was alleged...

Teen pregnancy back on the rise, CDC says

Posted on January 08, 2009
1-8-2009 Colorado: The teen birthrate rose in more than half of states in '06. Colorado's rate edged up slightly. The nation's teen pregnancy rate has increased for the first time in 15 years, leaving pregnancy-prevention experts wondering whether their tactics have fatigued...

NM- New federal laws mandate sex offender registration guidelines

Posted on January 07, 2009
If the new law is written, or interpreted, as explained in this article then there are insane provisions which are impossible for many prior offenders to comply with (highlighted shows one example). This law protects no one and harms many, and some of those are not even offenders...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

SD- Police: Man killed when he tried to grab knife from girlfriend

Posted on January 07, 2009
1-7-2009 South Dakota: Sioux Falls police released the name of the man killed Monday in the city?s first homicide of the year, and said his girlfriend pulled the knife that killed him during an argument, police spokesman Sam Clemens said. Duane Joseph Red Bird, 39, died when he was cut trying to take a kitchen knife from his girlfriend Cora Lynn McBride during an argument, Clemens said...

AU- 'Penis fire' suspect is charged

Posted on January 07, 2009
1-7-2009 Australia: An Australian woman has appeared in court in Adelaide charged with murdering her husband by setting fire to his penis. Rajini Narayan, 44, is alleged to have doused her husband, Satish, with a flammable liquid while he was sleeping...

Check your Internet SPEED

Posted on January 07, 2009
This is quite a good site to see what SPEED your Internet connection is providing you then you should know if you are getting what you pay for. eAdvocate

CA- Just say "know" to Teen Sex

Posted on January 07, 2009
1-7-2009 California: Grown-ups spend a lot of time worrying that the next generation is sexually stupid. ?Today?s teens,? the cries begin, and they end with the words ?wild,? ?in such a hurry,? or ?setting themselves up for heartache ?? They?re not unfounded, these accusations...

NY- EDNY Judge Finds Violation of Supervised Release in SO Case Where Defendant Refrained from Participating in Treatment in "Meaningful Manner"

Posted on January 07, 2009
1-7-2009 New York: How many people haven't clicked with their therapists and moved on to another? Imagine being sentenced to therapy and not clicking with the assigned therapist, but not having the option of switching? That's a predicament in which more than a few defendants have found themselves...

Joe Burns: No call for a call to kill

Posted on January 07, 2009
1-7-2009 ?Protect our children: kill a pedophile.? That?s what the bumper sticker read on a car just ahead of me. Encountering a call for murder is unsettling, but, in this case, not surprising. In the dung heap of depravity, where sadists, serial killers and mass murders dwell, you will find the sexual predator as well...

CO- School District Won't Move Bus Stop Away From Sexually Violent Predator

Posted on January 07, 2009
The problem here is not the RSO it is the parent. There isn't a state in the U.S. which permits parents to allow their children to be unsupervised in the public. Parents need to get the picture, they need to go with their children to the bus stop until the child gets on the bus, then there is no worry from a RSO or a murder or a burgular or a person who has committed any other kind of crime.

GA- Registered Sex Offenders Must Comply with New Internet Rules

Posted on January 07, 2009
Again, lawmakers with another UNCONSTITUTIONAL provision tacked into sex offender laws. This password provision is no different than saying to RSOs, give me a key to your home so we can search it whenever we feel like. This is plain nonsense, two other states have tried it and courts have declared such UNCONSTITUTIONAL, the 4th Amendment has not been repealed to my knowledge...

CA- Swearengin jumps right in to Fresno mayoral job

Posted on January 07, 2009
The mayor's comments as to sex offenders are laughable. Notice she intends to monitor those offenders who are no longer on parole or probation which the law does say. Whats wrong with that you say, well what will the monitor do when the registrant takes a trip to Europe, South America, etc...

Criminal gang takes over sex offender website

Posted on January 06, 2009
This is the State's website of previously convicted sex offenders, that vigilantes have taken over. i.e. Pirated. 1-6-2009 Sweden: Criminal organisation Original Gangsters (OG) has assumed control of a Swedish website that exposes the identity of sex offenders, Crime News reports...

Study: Teens on MySpace mention sex, violence

Posted on January 06, 2009
1-6-2009 National: A new study finds that 54 percent of teens talk about behaviors such as sex, alcohol use, and violence on the social networking giant MySpace -- presenting potential risks even if all they're doing is talking, researchers said Monday...

OH- Obama friend plans to be ally outside administration

Posted on January 06, 2009
1-6-2009 Ohio: If you had to pick one person in Cincinnati who might have a ticket for a top job in the administration of Barack Obama, David Singleton would not be a bad choice. The same could be said for his wife, Verna Williams. He is the executive director of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center in Cincinnati, a nonprofit law office in Cincinnati that works for reform of the state's

DC- Another first; Obama to webcast inaugural ball

Posted on January 06, 2009
There is no doubt that Obama sees the importance of the Internet in daily life. That fact may play an important part in future laws governing sex offenders, and may be used as a defense against harsher Internet laws when they are not needed. Take note! 1-6-2009 Washington DC: On inauguration night, Barack and Michelle will make their first stop ? and dance their first dance ? at a ball that

VT- Fiscal crisis to dominate legislative session

Posted on January 06, 2009
1-6-2009 Vermont: BENNINGTON ? State lawmakers will not converge on the statehouse to launch the new legislative session until Wednesday. One thing is already abundantly clear, however ? a fiscal crisis that is deepening by the day will dominate the beginning of the new biennium...

DC- President-Elect Obama Announces Key Department of Justice Posts

Posted on January 06, 2009
These are the people in Washington which will have the most influence in administering laws and court cases affecting sex offenders during Obama's time in office. 1-6-2009 Washington: WASHINGTON - Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the following individuals for key posts at the United States Department of Justice: David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General;

MI- State must do more to prevent prison suicides

Posted on January 06, 2009
All suicides mentioned occurred in DECEMBER a bad time for inmates. 1-6-2009 Michigan: A new administrator charged with improving Michigan's dysfunctional prison health care system has a lot on her plate in 2009, but looking into prison suicides must become an immediate priority...

SC- Teen 'sexting' risky behavior

Posted on January 06, 2009
1-6-2009 South Carolina: Across the Lowcountry, kids are returning to school this week, and many have powerful new weapons in their pockets, purses and book bags that they received over the holidays: cell phones with built-in cameras and text-messaging capabilities...

WA- Puyallup mom who attacked child molester with baseball bat pleads guilty to assault

Posted on January 06, 2009
See earlier story from June 2008, and hundreds of other attacks on persons involved with sex offenses. 1-6-2009 Washington: A Puyallup woman who became an Internet hero after she beat a convicted child molester with a baseball bat pleaded guilty Monday to assault...

UK- Police to hack personal computers without court warrants

Posted on January 06, 2009
1-6-2009 United Kingdom: In a move likely to incite fervent reaction from privacy advocates, police authorities in the United Kingdom have this week been given the power to ?hack? into the computers of suspects without first securing a search warrant...

UK- 'Suspects On The Run With A Body'

Posted on January 05, 2009
UPDATE on story from 12-30-08 re: "Sex Offender" murdered but no body found. 1-5-2009 United Kingdom: Detectives investigating the murder of a sex offender in Lancashire believe his attackers may be on the run with his body. Blood and DNA found in a house near Burnley in December have convinced police that Alan Street, a convicted rapist, was beaten to death...

VT- Is Your Child "Sexting?"

Posted on January 05, 2009
1-5-2009 Vermont: The South Burlington Rebels are one player short these days. Seventeen year-old Isaac Owusu was recently suspended from the basketball team after allegedly sexually assaulting two teenage girls while on school grounds. But the case is also highlighting a disturbing trend taking place amongst teenagers...

MI- PART-2 -- For female inmates and lawyer, a lot at stake as rape trial starts

Posted on January 05, 2009
Click for the Human Rights Watch report on Michigan prison abuses.1-5-2009 Michigan:The story so farToni Bunton landed in a Michigan prison after being convicted for participating in a drug deal that led to a murder. She and other female inmates say they became victims there, helpless to defend themselves against male guards? sexual advances...

IL- Offenders among us

Posted on January 05, 2009
1-5-2009 Illinois:Past sins listed, not explained,in sex registriesI pastor a church in the cozy town of Omaha, Ill. A friend here recently confided in me that a number of people are concerned that a "child molester" has been attending my church. He asked if that is really true...

IN- Rulings target Internet sex stings

Posted on January 04, 2009
These are two interesting cases both resulting from a Internet sting likened to those where Perverted Justice works with the police. However, the facts of both of these cases show that the convictions would likely have stuck IF they were charged under a different statute...

SC- Inmate stabbed to death at Lee Correctional

Posted on January 04, 2009
1-4-2009 South Carolina: An inmate was stabbed to death Sunday morning at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, the S.C. Department of Corrections said. About 11:15 a.m., Lenmont Jones, 29, was stabbed by another inmate inside a dormitory at the maximum-security institution...

MI- Sexual assaults on female inmates went unheeded

Posted on January 04, 2009
1-4-2009 MichiganFirst of five partsFor years, rights groups warned that male guards were sexually assaulting female inmates in Michigan prisons. For years, those warnings went unheeded. Now, state taxpayers may pay a price too. More than 500 women are suing...

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant
The Dallas Morning News came up with a surprise today -- the newsp...

BREAKING NEWS - NJ Supreme Court's Decision in Mt. Laurel v. MiPro
Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision in Mount Lau...

Medical Malpractice News Roundup
From the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, a summary of recent de...

Insurance Department Issues Second Annual Ohio Medical Liability Closed Claim Report
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued its secon...

Primary Ads Urge Voters To Probe Candidates On Church-State Issues
A series of newspaper and television ads have been launched in New...