Stop the Sex Offender Registry Panic

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“How did you arrive at taking up reform of the sex offender registry as a cause?

“Well, I’m interested in keeping kids safe and I’m also interested in when our fears don’t match reality. That began when …

A Disputed Diagnosis Imprisons Parents

Read these articles in the Washington Post on Shaken Baby Syndrome.…

Case of “San Antonio Four” Set to Enter its Final Act

Tamir Kalifa

“On April 22, the case will enter its final act as the two alleged victims take the stand. Now in their late 20s, one still maintains the abuse took place, and the other says the two were coerced …

It’s Not Just the Drug War

“The growing unpopularity of the War on Drugs and the number of bipartisan moves to, supposedly, roll back mass incarceration have led some leftists to believe that, finally, the prison-state is about to be cut down to size.

“Yet a …

Nine Horrible Social Panics

9 Social Panics That Gripped the Nation, Were Totally False, and Did Horrible Lasting Damage.

Read the article by Janet Allon and Kali Hollway in Alternet.…

Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe

“You have to feel a little sorry these days for professors married to their former students. They used to be respectable citizens—leaders in their fields, department chairs, maybe even a dean or two—and now they’re abusers of power avant la …