Criminal Law
: Sex CrimesFear of Pedophiles
By Corey Rayburnyung (all)
Dan Filler at The Faculty Lounge continues to post about sex crime issues with an interesting bit about how the government plays on the fear of pedophiles. Filler was writing in response to this online ad. Here is what he had to say:Here's the problem with today's fear-of-pedophilia ad: in its effort to trade on popular anxiety - using existing fear to cause readers to pay attention - it also further produces that fear. Every time the government waves the bloody shirt of pedophilia, a few more readers will begin to believe that the nation is in a child sexual assault crisis. And it's simply not clear that this is remotely true. But by generating that anxiety, more and more voters become open to the sorts of aggressive, repressive regulations supposedly needed to suppress this crime...continue to full post
Full post as published by Sex Crimes on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).
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