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By Corey Rayburnyung

The Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting article entitled: What Are the Ages of Consent Throughout the Western World?  The article focuses primarily on the Western World: "the U.S., Europe West of the Iron Curtain, plus the Western Anglosphere, which is to say Australia, Canada, and New Zealand." The State of Iowa will receive a $269,450 grant from the Department of Justice through the Adam Walsh Act.  Following the announcement of the grant, the State is looking towards allowing "real-time public notification" for the State's sex offender registry. Sentencing Law and Policy has a post disscussing what the Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Ginsburg might do in Kennedy v. Louisiana.  The article mentions a new essay which notes that Justice Ginsburg "appeared open to drawing a line between execution for the rape of an adult woman and execution for the rape of a child," whereas Chief Justice Roberts "appeared to view the potential execution of rapists as evidencing moral progress toward an enlightened view of the harm of rape...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).