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Registered Sex Offenders and Reported Sex Offenses [PDF]
Crime & Delinquency, 2014 Geographic restrictions on registered sex offenders (RSOs) have become commonplace. Such policies generally assume that sex offenses are likely to be higher near RSOs. Yet, few ecological studies have examined this question empirically. The current study examines whether incidences of reported sex offenses are higher in proximity to the addresses of ...
Thomas D. Stucky, John R. Ottensmann
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Sex Offenses: The American Legal Context [PDF]
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 A rational code of sex offense laws is long overdue in this country. Sex offense legislation presently on the books is largely unenforceable and much of this legislation does a great deal more harm than good. There are a number of fundamental reasons for this.
Morris Ploscowe
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Mental Health Problems in Girls Who Committed Sexual Offenses: Similarities and Differences Compared to Girls With Non-sex Offenses and Boys With Sex Offenses [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Female juvenile offenders have only recently shifted into the focus of research. Moreover, a specific subgroup, female juveniles who sexually offended (JSO) are greatly overlooked.
Madleina Manetsch +6 more
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Sex Offenses: The Marginal Status of the Adolescent [PDF]
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 Adolescence is not a highly institutionalized position in American society.1 It is a transitional status between childhood and adulthood, but it is less institutionalized than either of the two age-based status positions that it borders and connects. The adolescent is a marginal person who is no longer accorded the privileged status of the child, nor ...
Albert J. Reiss
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Sex Offenses—Offensive Sex: Some Observations on the Recent Reform of Ecclesiastical Penal Law [PDF]
Religions, 2022 In recent years, the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults in the Catholic Church has received much attention. This is also true of the related changes to ecclesiastical legislation.
Judith Hahn
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Sex Offenses: A Sociological Critique [PDF]
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 Issues raised by sex offender legislation cut across a number of problems that are of interest to law, psychiatry, and the social sciences. Three problems are selected for brief review in this paper. The first concerns the basis for deciding what types of sex relationships should be subject to legal restraint.
Stanton Wheeler
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Exploring the Modus Operandi of Coaches Who Perpetrated Sex Offenses in Canada [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study investigated the modus operandi strategies employed by 120 coaches who committed sexual abuse toward 331 athletes under their authority. More than 2,000 Canadian court judgements and media reports were identified using online search databases.
Elisabeth St-Pierre +8 more
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Sex Offenses: The Scandinavian Experience [PDF]
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 Despite the broad assumption that there is a special emancipation in sexual matters in Scandinavia, there is still in many circles a tendency to deprecate sex problems and generally to de-emphasize the importance of sex in life. Nevertheless, it is clear that great changes have occurred in the thinking of large segments of the population during the ...
Georg K. Stürup
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Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway* [PDF]
Criminology (Beverly Hills), 2021 Comparative penologists have described neoliberal and social democratic jurisdictions as though they exist at opposite ends of a continuum of inclusion and exclusion, and as though neoliberal states are inactive and social democratic states are invasive.
Alice Ievins, Kristian Mjåland
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CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEX OFFENSES AGAINST MINORS [PDF]
Legal Bulletin, 2022 The relevance of the study lies in the fact that at the present stage there is again an increase in sexual crimes, in the first place of which are rape. When analyzing the quantitative indica- tors of the number of people convicted of rape and attempted ...
LOGOZINSKY A.S.
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