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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CA Court Blocks DOJ’s new SORNA Rule Because it Violated Due Process and First Amendment

January 18, 2023, 6:24 pm Los Angeles: A California court last week blocked the Department of Justice’s new Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act rule because it violated due process and the First Amendment. “The DOJ almost never loses

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

  A COMMONLY-CITED STATISTIC ABOUT SEX CRIME 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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Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork Newsletter – May, 2022

This is the 3rd edition of a monthly newsletter providing general information, scheduling, and planning updates about the March 2023 Conference and Vigil in Washington D.C.

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Some great news about UNTOUCHABLE, David Feige’s award-winning documentary

UNTOUCHABLE – Festival Trailer from Meerkat Media on Vimeo. When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws

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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-Newsletter-April_2022

This is the 2nd edition of our monthly newsletter providing general information, scheduling, and planning updates about the March 2023 Conference and Vigil in Washington D.C.

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Teamwork-Makes-the-Dreamwork-Newsletter-March_2022

This is the first version of a monthly newsletter providing general information, scheduling, and planning updates about the March 2023 Conference and Vigil in Washington D.C.

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Protected: March 2023 Conference Ticket Order form

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TeamWork Makes the DreamWork 2023

  In a study of more than 170,000 charged sexual offenses it was found that more than 95 percent of registerable sexual offenses and more than 94 percent of sexual offenses against children in the state are committed

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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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