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.
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1996/07/levine.html

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.
- http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/9810/byteme-catalano.php

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.
- http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8096

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.
- http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8121

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 securit
- http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8099

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.
- http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8095

Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing
- Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital.
- http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8117

Central Park attacks
- This site is to denounce the spree of sexual attacks that happened in Central Park during the Puerto Rican Day Parade 2000.
- http://perso.orange.fr/centralparkattacks/

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.
- http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html

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.
- http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html

Take Back The News - Break The Silence
- A project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media.
- http://www.takebackthenews.org

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.
- http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1558

Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time
- Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.
- http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html

Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000
- Read articles related to convicted child molester, Victor Salva's new film project, "Jeepers Creepers." Covers the controversy surrounding the use of Florida schools for filming of the movie.
- http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html

Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports
- Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally.
- http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html

Scotland rules out Sarah's Law
- Violent sex offenders in Scotland face lifelong supervision by the police and social services in an overhaul of the country's criminal justice system unveiled today.
- http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,618279,00.html

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.
- http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/863/article3579.asp

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.
- http://www.tellingofrape.com

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.
- http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html

Tales From the Dark Side
- New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
- http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html

Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim
- Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.
- http://www.justicedenied.org/bruce.htm

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.
- http://amarillonet.com/stories/012198/014-4675.002.shtml

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.
- http://www.dailynews.net/ottawa/herald_opinion/sexual.html

Sex Offender Statute Leads to Man's Arrest
- Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address.
- http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/1999092112

ResearchWire:  Megan's Law
- The Web's 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.
- http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm

Publicizing Child Molester's Prison Release
- California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser.
- http://www.markwelch.com/molestpr.htm

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.
- http://www.sunnews.com/news/suburbs/berea/1998/predator.htm

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.
- http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/page1/97/11/25/notify.2-1.html

A Series of Articles
- including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- http://www.jsonline.com/sexoffender/

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.
- http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/fp3s1-csm.htm

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.
- http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9301_a.html

Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney
- Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva.
- http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html

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.
- http://amarillonet.com/stories/121996/tougher.html

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.
- http://www.merlin.org/legal/faircloth.html

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.
- http://www.intercerve.com/News/wral2.htm

Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity
- No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
- http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html

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.
- http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial/pedophiles/6.htm

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.
- http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/

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.
- http://www.pace-custody.org/newsletter11.html

Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore
- Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.
- http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/art30198.htm

Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape
- Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
- http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/rape.html