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Does mandatory reporting of child abuse help or hurt? A Colorado task force is taking a second look.

“The way our mandatory reporting system exists right now — my opinion is that it does more harm than it does good,” Jerry Milner told the state’s Mandatory Reporting Task Force last …

Does the Sex Offender Registry do More Harm than Good?

A debate between NCRJ Director Dr, Emily Horowitz and Montclair State University Professor Cary Fetterman.

Listen to the debate and cast your vote.…

Pedophilia and the Media

“These are the facts about the term pedophilia. It is a medical term, not a legal one. There are no laws or statutes criminalizing pedophilia. Depression might cause a person to shoplift, but the criminal act is shoplifting, not having …

Virginia Supreme Court Ruling Vindicates Activist

The decision in Baughman v. Virginia ends the state’s efforts to civilly commit activist Galen Baughman as a ‘sexually violent predator’

In mid-September 2022 the Supreme Court of Virginia reversed a trial court decision and dismissed the Commonwealth’s petition to …

The Real Monsters

“Public and political support for registries remains high. There is little evidence that attitudes have been impacted by a growing body of research showing that public registration, community notification, and residency restrictions do not decrease the incidence of sexual offense. …

Restorative Justice for Sex Offenses?

On April 13, 2022. this important conference was held via Zoom.

Susannah Karin is a licensed social worker with over 20 years of experience in NYC’s criminal justice system. For the past nine years, she has been coordinating re-entry services …

Two videos from an important conference

Bill Dobbs of The Dobbs Wire sent us links to videos of a conference that took place in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 8, 2022: the eighth annual Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration (URMI) Conference. This year’s conference …

The hollowness of the child porn smear: Ketanji Brown Jackson has been bold and prescient

Sen. Josh Hawley and Ketanji Brown Jackson (Getty Images)

‘In 1996, when Jackson wrote her critique, she was one of the few who foresaw that a new web of laws banishing sex offenders from society would create a banished class …

Joseph Allen out on bond; judge to decide on new trial

photo credit: jim d’entremont

“I don’t know why a white woman of some means went home and an indigent Black man went back to prison. I don’t know why that happened. Maybe there’s a legitimate reason for that,” [Judge] Cook …