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https://youtu.be/v71MsDLV7ig On 3/5/21 Paul Renfro and Emily Horowitz had a conversation about Paul’s new book: Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020). Beginning with Etan Patz’s disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child… Continue reading Stranger Danger

“But before human rights groups here and in Europe focus their attention far in the past and far afield, they would do well to seek apologies, restitution, and justice for the victims of witch hunts much closer in time and space: victims of the sex abuse in day care hysteria that in the 1980s and… Continue reading Justice Still Denied for Victims of Day Care Sex Abuse Witch Trials

“Detective McLaughlin skipped the logical first steps that such a letter might have set in motion. He did not consult the priest’s personnel file – which revealed nothing about his ever being in Florida. And he did not consult Monsignor John Quinn, the named originator of the story. “Instead, armed with the explosive Florida murder-molestation… Continue reading Police Investigative Misconduct Railroaded an Innocent Catholic Priest

2/24/21. New York Law School hosted a conversation about the role that restorative justice can play in addressing sexual violence. Professor Susan Abraham moderates the discussion between Vivianne Guevera — Director of Social Work and Mitigation at the Federal Defenders of New York —  and Judith Levine — journalist, essayist, and author whose work explores… Continue reading Restorative Justice and Sexual Violence

Join Susan Abraham, Vivianne Guevara, and Judith Levine, this Wednesday, February 24th at 12:50 p.m. View this poster for details: ICPI-Impact-Conversations-Flyer-022421-v1r2-locked Follow this link to RSVP.

Please consider joining us on March 5 (Friday) at 11:15am (EST) with historian Paul Renfro about his fascinating new book: Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020). You can sign-up here (it only takes a minute), and a Zoom link will be sent immediately prior to the event. More details… Continue reading Stranger Danger

At the heart of the conspiracy theory that stirred many in the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 was the lie that a cabal of Democratic and “deep state” pedophiles are trafficking and killing thousands of children. A demented “Save the Children” campaign led to a near coup d’etat and the death of… Continue reading The feminist and the sex offender

Issues of Poetry magazine are displayed at the Newberry Library in Chicago on Dec. 16, 2009. Photo: Zbigniew Bzdak/Tribune News Service via Getty Images “A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated person what they’re in for. It’s more than etiquette. To eschew the identity that the punitive… Continue reading In Furor Over Poet With Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy

Thank you Bill dobbs. if you want to join The Dobbs Wire email list or have something to say: info@thedobbswire.com Twitter: @thedobbswire “This webinar will feature a discussion on recent research on the overrepresentation of Black and sexual minority men in civil commitment programs and provide a brief history of civil commitment and the legal… Continue reading Sex Offense Civil Commitment: An LGBTQ and Racial Justice Issue

From the Dobbs Wire. if you want to join The Dobbs Wire email list or have something to say:  info@thedobbswire.com   Twitter:  @thedobbswire (Jim Gehrz/Zuma Press/Newscom) “Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have laws that authorize civil commitment of sex offenders who would otherwise be released after serving their prison terms. The Supreme… Continue reading Pretending Prisoners are Patients