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Criminal Law

2014

Sexual abuse

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Court Of Appeals Of New York, People V. Rose, Susan Persaud Dec 2014

Court Of Appeals Of New York, People V. Rose, Susan Persaud

Touro Law Review

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Supreme Court, Appellate Term, People V. Morin, Lauren Tan Dec 2014

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, People V. Morin, Lauren Tan

Touro Law Review

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Court Of Appeals Of New York, People V. Paulman, Michele Kligman Nov 2014

Court Of Appeals Of New York, People V. Paulman, Michele Kligman

Touro Law Review

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9. Children's Memory For Conversations About Sexual Abuse: Legal And Psychological Implications., Thomas D. Lyon, Stacia N. Stolzenberg Mar 2014

9. Children's Memory For Conversations About Sexual Abuse: Legal And Psychological Implications., Thomas D. Lyon, Stacia N. Stolzenberg

Thomas D. Lyon

The legal and psychological literature on children’s testimony in child sexual abuse cases has largely focused on whether children are allowed to testify, how children testify, and what happens after they do. Those concerned about false convictions have emphasized the benefits of mechanisms to exclude children’s testimony that is unreliable because of pre-trial influence or developmental immaturity1 and the utility of expert testimony on children’s suggestibility. Those concerned about false acquittals have argued for eliminating barriers to receiving children’s testimony, the benefits of setting up special devices (such as screens or closed-circuit television) for receiving testimony, and the utility of …

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Regulating Sexual Harm: Strangers, Intimates, And Social Institutional Reform, Allegra M. Mcleod Jan 2014

Regulating Sexual Harm: Strangers, Intimates, And Social Institutional Reform, Allegra M. Mcleod

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The criminal regulation of sexual harm in the United States is afflicted by deep pathology. Although sexual harm appears before the law in a variety of forms—from violent rape, to indecent exposure, to the sexual touching by an older child of a younger child—the prevailing U.S. criminal regulatory framework responds to this wide range of conduct with remarkable uniformity. All persons so convicted are labeled “sex offenders,” and most are subjected to registration, community notification, and residential restrictions, among other sanctions. These measures purport to prevent the perpetration of further criminal sexual harm by publicizing the identities and restricting the …

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