What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School

“Virtually everything about this spectacle except the tentative, then stoic intervention of Ford reeks of bad faith. Wisdom crouches in the corner, silent. Yet wisdom—have we forgot?—is the fundamental and ancient criterion for a judge. Kavanaugh has failed the test …

The Last Victim

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“Thirty-three years ago, Fuster, along with his young wife, Ileana, was convicted of sexually abusing children at his suburban Florida home, where Ileana provided day care. He is the last person charged in the mass sex-abuse-in-day-care scares that made …

Did California Authorities Suppress Research on Sexually Violent Predators?

the crime report

“State laws that allow sexually violent predators to be locked up even after they have served their sentences are based on questionable assumptions that they continue to pose a danger to society, according to a study published …

Changing sex offender law needs to be evidence-based

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“The Boston Release Network, an organization that promotes public safety by helping returning citizens reintegrate into the community, notes that of the 59 individuals using their services, none have committed or even been arrested …

Acquitted by a jury, but forced to register as a sex offender

The Appellate Squawk blog, written by a New York attorney who specializes in criminal appeals, portrays the majority’s willingness to second-guess the jurors by crediting testimony they rejected as another example of the special rules that seem to apply in …

Theories and frameworks misdefining child abuse

The crucial question posed in the series “Global Child Rights and Wrongs” in the Sunday Guardian is how—and why—child protection laws should, over the past few decades, have led to the wrongful conviction of thousands of innocent parents and care …

Guilty until proved innocent is the new legal standard

The juggernaut of what has become a remorseless child abuse industry rolls on, with parents being framed by protection agencies and wrongfully convicted on the basis of speculation and conjecture.

Read the article by Dr. James Le Fanu in the …

The Sex Offender Registry: Vengeful, unconstitutional and due for full repeal

As Clarence Darrow famously said, “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” Protecting the constitutional rights of everyone, even those convicted of sex …

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo

“Whether formulated for political organizing (the right’s ‘Save Our Children’), or inflated/concocted from real claims (the priest scandal), or entirely concocted (the day-care frenzy), or fueled by exaggerated statistics and unstable definitions (the college ‘hunting ground’), these panics have shared …

Should the Sex Offender Registry be Abolished? A Live Debate

For the affirmative: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz

For the negative: Marci Hamilton from CHILD USA

Watch here.…