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• Insurance Coverage For Abuse Or Sexual Assault In Small Schools Is Difficult To Obtain Abuse and corporal punishment may be available through the association(s) that specialize in your type of student.
  
• Sex-Crime Laws Draw More Flak California case highlights tension between children's safety and offenders' privacy. Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
  
• Arlington Sex Offenders' Data, Photos to be Public Detailed records of registered child-sex offenders, including their photos and addresses, will be a computer keystroke away under a law that goes into effect today.
  
• Several States Using Web to Post Sex Offender Profiles (AP) Portland - As his face slowly appears on the computer screen, he looks like the guy next door. And in some cases, he is.
  
• Moore Denies Predator Label David Ellis Moore says he isn't a sexual predator, even though he allowed himself to be tagged as one, and he plans to challenge it in court.
  
• Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill Despite a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing involuntary civil commitment for violent sex offenders, Assembly Judiciary Chairman Bernie Anderson is going slow on a bill to enact such laws in Nevada.
  
• Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address.
  
• Protection From Sexual Predators Sexual predators are among the most despicable of Missouri's felons.
  
• ResearchWire:  Megan's Law The Webs impact on information occasionally sparks controversy. Privacy advocates, for example, challenge existing public records laws that fail to address, or clearly allow, making personal data available via Web sites.
  
• Civil Commitment for Sexual Predators Florida became one of a handful of states with laws allowing the civil commitment of sex offenders after they had completed their prison sentences.
  
• Sex Offender Web Site Draws Fire from Virginia ACLU ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Kent Willis called the site a "total invasion of privacy" and said it is tantamount to the state encouraging vigilante justice.
  
• Sex Con Registry May Be Put on Net Canadians might soon be able to find out the names and addresses of dangerous pedophiles as Ontario moves closer to setting up the country's first sex-offender registry.
  
• Politics and Irrelevance: Community Notification Statutes As appeared in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 10, No. 2.
  
• Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery An intimate memoir, full of light and hope, about a woman's journey toward overcoming the effects of a violent rape.
  
• Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall urged a Senate committee Friday to approve legislation that would allow the state to use "chemical castration" in an effort to prevent sex offenders from repeating their crimes.
  
• ACLU Affiliates Combat Sexual Offenders Lists ACLU offices in three states -- West Virginia, California, and Michigan -- are currently battling the privacy-threatening sexual offender registries required by "Megans Laws" across the country.
  
• Uncivil Liberties While electronic freedom fighters wage battles to protect our access to information on the Internet, who is watching to protect us from harassment by information on the Internet? by Frank Catalano.
  
• Legislation Denying Convicted Sex Offenders Access to the Internet Sexual degenerates seem a strange group to protect. Most have been irremediably warped by exposure to the Internet's fields of psychic rupture, and electronic brain rot.
  
• Kansas' Sexual Offender Registry Is Irresponsible and Overrated New technology at its best, right? No, this is just part 2 of the state's warped and illogical system of justice for sex-crime perpetrators.
  
• What To Tell The Neighbors and How Community notification about sex offenders is a benefit, residents say, but there are still glitches.
  
• Politics and Irrelevance Federal Sentencing Reporter - Volume 10, No. 2.
  
• Sexually Violent Predators: What Happens After They've Served Time? Atascadero Psych Techs are willing to start treatment, but SVPs hold out for court appeals.
  
• Policing Sex Offenders Convicted sex offenders are being released into society with growing frequency. Although more than half the states have programs to monitor these offenders, the programs often don't work.
  
• Sex Offenders May Face Confinement After Prison Mentally unstable sex offenders who are a threat to strike again would be held for treatment after their prison terms end under a bill approved Tuesday in the Iowa House.
  
• Web Site Leads Cops to Illicit Acts at Malls By Desiree Chen, Tribune Staff Writer
  
• Stricter Rules Cut Number of Assaults From staff and wire reports tougher parole measures for sex offenders have helped push down the number of sexual assaults in Texas by 17 percent since 1993, the executive director of the Criminal Justice Policy Council said.
  
• Clinton Calls for National Sex Offender Registry President Clinton used his weekly radio address Saturday to call for a national registry of sex offenders. (CNN)
  
• Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.
  
• Sex Offender Has Lakewood Residents Mad Lakewood, Ohio, - Nearly 2,000 Lakewood residents called the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's department concerned about a sexual offender who has moved into their city.
  
• Sex Offender Registries and Community Notification: States' Use of Technology for Public Safety Policy and Practice (Summer 1998), text not online, must order copy for $7, from the non-profit National Criminal Justice Association.
  
• Police Reopen Thousands of Dumped Cases The Philadelphia Police Department has launched a massive effort to reinvestigate more than 2,000 reported rapes, indecent assaults and other sex offenses dating to 1995 - cases that had been shelved by the police sex-crimes unit, often after little or no investigation.
  
• Sex Offender List Violates Privacy Few can argue that the media--both print and electronic--have made for a more informed public, it sometimes oversteps its bounds and provides more harmful gossip than valuable information.
  
• Registering Sex Offenders an Imperfect Answer Law puts the responsibility for tracking sex offenders on virtually everyone but law enforcement agencies.
  
• Sexual Predator Program to Expand At Atascadero State Hospital Atascadero State Hospital will receive nearly $33 million to build a 250-bed addition designed specifically for men convicted of multiple sexual assaults.
  
• Advice for Victims of Sexual Assault A guide written by the Metropolitan Police. A useful reference point before going to the police on what to expect from them.
  
• Texas Puts Records Online The records, like criminal records in many states, are already publicly available. But there's a big difference between availability through the mail or by walking into the local government office, and access via any Internet-connected PC.
  
• A Prison by any Other Name At the Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality treatment center, they lock up men who are dangerous--or unlucky--enough to be tabbed menaces to society even after they've done their prison time.
  
• Sex Offender Online Registry is a Busy Site The state's online registry of sex offenders debuted Wednesday morning and its been busy ever since. By 2:00 a.m. Thursday, the registry had counted 40,700 searches.
  
• Lubbock Firm Sues DPS For Refusal to Release Database A Lubbock firm that does criminal background checks for schools and apartment communities has sued the Texas Department of Public Safety for its entire criminal conviction database.
  
• Bill Seeks to Confine Some Sex Offenders Longer A U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year has paved the way for Ohio and other states to move forward with legislation that would allow certain child molesters and other sex offenders to be confined past the point they have served a prison sentence.
  
• Prostitution Arrests Posted Online A 30-year-old Minnesota man was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute from his blue Ford pickup within the past 18 months. Now his name and picture are displayed on the Net, exposing his arrest not only to his neighbors, but also to people around the world.
  
• Tales From the Dark Side New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
  
• A Matter Of Hearts An intimate look at the illicit affair that has pitted the vagaries of love against the unsentimentality of the law. Mary K. Letourneaus' image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster.
  
• Sex Predators Can't Be Saved There can be no dispute that monsters live among us. The only question is what to do with them once they become known to us.
  
• Pedophiles and Child Molesters: The Slaughter of Innocence A pedophile will usually exhibit a series of personality characteristics. It is important to understand that these characteristics alone do not conclusively determine that a person is a pedophile.
  
• Plan Would Delay Jail Releases for Sex Offenders Proposal would require civil trial, assessment before inmate is freed,
  
• Sex Offender Policy Creates Controversy When the state Sex Offender Registry sent Marshfield police Chief William Sullivan a disclosure last Monday of a convicted child rapist living in town, Sullivan did not release the information immediately, as is required by state law.
  
• Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently.
  
• Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
  
• A Question of Abuse What followed for the Diamonds was a nightmare, executed by a system so zealous to protect children from perceived sexual abuse that it may fracture their families and crush their spirits in the process.
  
• Plan Proposed To Notify Sex Offenders' Neighbors Houston Chronicle - When posters and fliers warning of a child molester appeared mysteriously in a neighborhood here, residents quickly called Fort Bend County authorities.
  
• No Safe Place This is a companion site to the PBS documentary film which tells the stories of women who have been battered, assaulted, and raped, as well as the stories of the men who commit these crimes.
  
• Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1).
  
• Announcement of Sexual Predator In Area Is Concern To Community Notification letters were sent out recently by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department and local school district officials, including Parma, informing residents and parents about the presence of a convicted sex offender in their community.
  
• Sex Offender Registration: A Review of State Laws Sex offender registration: national requirements and state registries.
  
• Bills End Statute of Limitations In Sex Cases Sexual abusers and child molesters could be criminally prosecuted and civilly sued forever - no matter how long ago the abuse was committed - under a pair of bills introduced yesterday in the New Jersey state Senate.
  
• Sex Offender Treatment No one expects zero recidivism, so how much does a program have to reduce reoffenses to call itself successful?
  
• Emotional Rape Syndrome Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it.
  
• Sex Offenders May Not Register Address Changes, But Who's Checking? AP - During a traffic stop last November, a Macomb County Sheriff's deputy discovered convicted sex offender Warren Tucker had failed to register a change of address with the state.
  
• Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
  
• Victim's Rights Abuse Protest Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan.
  
• Texas To Use Genetic Fingerprints A computer database is being filled with the DNA information of some criminals. Authorities hope for it to one day be an important crime-fighting tool both on state and national levels.
  
• Utah Studies Putting Sex Offender Registries on the Internet Utah may soon become the fifth state to open its sex offender registry to the world - not just to worried neighbors who want to keep their children out of harm's way.
  
• Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.
  
• Supreme Court Ruling on Sex Predators Spurs States Into Action Sex offenders from New England to the Hawaiian Islands may want to stop crossing off the days on their cellblock calendars.
  
• Self Defense Is No Offense Sara Hinchliffe explains why defendants in rape cases should have the right to represent themselves in court.
  
• Ensuring Notification It is an unfortunate quirk in Nevada's sex offender notification law that in most cases only certain groups -not individuals - may be informed when a sex offender moves into the community.
  
• Community Meeting Focuses on Offenders People need to work with local police and state legislators to better protect their neighborhoods from sex offenders, law enforcement officials said last night at a community meeting. By Carol Ryan.
  
• Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators Small groups of Atascadero State Hospital patients in the relatively new category of "sexually violent predator" recently caused two altercations with Psych Techs and other staff, raising concerns that they may be testing the hospital's security and safety procedures.
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Affect SVPs in California Facilities The U.S. Supreme Court says violent sexual predators - such as those at Atascadero State Hospital - can be kept in custody even after they have served their prison terms.
  
• Tougher Requires states to inform the public when a convicted sex offender considered a danger to the public is released from prison and settles in the neighborhood.
  
• Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser.
  
• Rape and Molestation of Women Documented cases of rape and molestation by the Indian troops in Kashmir.
  
• A Series of Articles including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
  
• Sex Offender Data Online-- Gates to NW Law Articles and Resources on Offender Registration.
  
• Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva.
  
• Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital.
  
• Death by Notification Harassed by knowing neighbors, a molester may have seen only one way to escape his past.
  
• Sex Offender List Not Ready Compiling an accurate registry will take another six weeks, law enforcement officials say. Brian Coddington/The Spokesman-Review.
  
• Considerations for Assessing Family Reunification in Cases Involving Incest-Type Sex Offenders These considerations are presented as a general framework for therapists, human resource workers, guardians and legal professionals when family reunification becomes a goal after an incest child sex offense has been committed.
  
• California Child Molesters Could Face Chemical Castration Child molesters could face "chemical castration" under a unique and controversial California bill aimed at stifling the sex drives of convicted pedophiles.
  
• False Rape Allegations The author discusses the history of unfounded rape allegations, and how legitimate cases of rape were discounted until pressure from women's groups caused them to be taken more seriously. However, the pendulum has now swung the other way.