Vicki’s Pivotal Message of Hope

After much contemplation — and 12 years of service to the movement — I am announcing my decision to hand leadership of Women Against Registry over to the next generation. I was first called to this movement in

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How SCOTUS Promoted Pernicious Myths About Sex Offender Registries

Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs. This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that approved the retroactive application of

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Harsh treatment of people who committed a sex offense is based on flawed social science

Robert Longo, the author of the 1986 Psychology Today article that was cited in the SCOTUS case: Smith v Doe 2003, as the source of the false “frightening and high” statistic, refutes his 1986 claim that the SCOTUS

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A COMMONLY-CITED STATISTIC ABOUT SEX OFFENDER RE-OFFENSE RATES IS WRONG

  A COMMONLY-CITED STATISTIC ABOUT SEX OFFENDER RE-OFFENSE RATES IS WRONG. Jul 28, 2015 Ira Ellman PROFESSOR AT SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Proponents of criminal justice reform never talk about sex offenders. They’re political untouchables

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Restorative Justice for Sex Offenses? A Conversation About Possibilities [4/13/22 Webinar]

Webinar Topic: Restorative Justice for Sex Offenses? A Conversation About Possibilities Featuring Author Judith Levine & Social Worker Susannah Karlin Sponsored by the St. Francis College Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Women’s & Gender Studies April

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TeamWork Makes the DreamWork 2023

  Are you a civil and human rights advocate? Sync up with us on March 5, 2023 when the conference begins in DC. Count down until the conference begins 3/5/2023 at 8:00am Eastern Time Click here to order

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Please join the next War Room on Tuesday at 8 p.m. (Eastern), 7 p.m. (Central), 6 p.m. (Mountain), 5 p.m. (Pacific).     Join the next WAR Room meeting Women Against Registry presents the next WAR Room Tuesday

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Critical reflections on labeling as an ethical issue in the field of psychology

Gwenda M. Willis (2018) “Why call someone by what we don’t want them to be? The ethics of labeling in forensic/correctional psychology,” Psychology, Crime & Law, 24:7, 727-743, DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1421640 Gwenda M. Willis & Elizabeth Letourneau. guest editorial:

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Women Against Registry and their WAR Room to Host Special Guest Dr. Gene I. Katz

Topics to include his doctoral study on evidence-based practice in sexual offender treatment as well as how citizens can affect legislative changes. ARNOLD, MO, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Today Women Against Registry announced the upcoming speaker in

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The pivot from annihilation to reasonable accountability and justice for all

We are the families living at the little ‘red dots’ you see on a registry map. Currently, there are almost three million of us; wives, mothers, sisters, girlfriends, brothers, fathers, grandparents, and so on. You notice I didn’t

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Is the Tide Turning Against Public Sex Offense Registries?

BY RORY FLEMING JULY 2, 2021 On June 8, the American Law Institute, arguably the most prestigious non-governmental law reform organization in the country, concluded its national meeting. One of its agenda items was to have its thousands of elected

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Fact Sheet 2

Sex Offense Registry Fact Sheet  Emily Horowitz, Ph.D. // Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, St. Francis College // ehorowitz@sfc.edu *As of 2018, there were 917,771 people listed on the U.S. sex offense registry (NCMEC, 2018) – an increase

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Sex Offense Registry Fact Sheet

Sex Offense Registry Fact Sheet  Emily Horowitz, Ph.D. // Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, St. Francis College // ehorowitz@sfc.edu   *As of 2018, there were 917,771 people listed on the U.S. sex offense registry (NCMEC, 2018) –

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Four Truths

Four Truths Four Truths help you understand different perspectives that influence individual and group action. When you recognize and consider the possible perspectives in any situation, you are better able to navigate the differences that limit open dialogue

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Four Types of Truth

Objective Truth is what exists and can be proved in this physicality. (The sun moves across the sky each day.) Normative Truth is what we, as a group, agree is true. (English speakers agreed to use the word day to

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Person-First

Critical reflections on labeling as an ethical issue in the field of psychology. Gwenda M. Willis (2018) “Why call someone by what we don’t want them to be? The ethics of labeling in forensic/correctional psychology,” Psychology, Crime &

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7-year-old New York boy charged with rape

A 7-year-old boy from upstate New York has been charged with rape, a report said Tuesday. The child, of Brasher Falls near the Canadian border, was arrested by state police in connection with an incident that happened on

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Assistant principal found dead in home hours after arrest for sex offenses against student

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – An assistant principal at Noble Middle School who was arrested early Friday morning for sex offenses against a student which allegedly took place in the early 1990s has been found dead in his home.

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