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New on SSRN

By Corey Rayburnyung

There a couple interesting new sex-crime related articles up on SSRN.  First, there is an article by Jenny Roberts at Syracuse titled The Myth of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Involuntary Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators. The article is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Here is the abstract:For many defendants, the criminal case does not end when the sentence is over. Instead, it follows them out of the courthouse or prison doors in the guise of collateral, or non-penal, sanctions. The last several decades have seen unprecedented expansion in the number and severity of the collateral consequences of criminal convictions, which include sex offender registration, deportation and bars on employment and housing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).