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Steven R Morrison

2007

Criminal Law and Procedure

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Creating Sex Offender Registries: The Religious Right And The Failure To Protect Society’S Vulnerable, Steven R. Morrison Jan 2007

Creating Sex Offender Registries: The Religious Right And The Failure To Protect Society’S Vulnerable, Steven R. Morrison

Steven R Morrison

Abstract: “Creating Sex Offender Registries: The Religious Right and the Failure to Protect Society’s Vulnerable” By Steven R. Morrison This article argues that sex offender registry and notification acts (SORNAs) fail to protect those in society who are likely victims of sex crimes. These laws fail to protect these potential victims because they emerged as a result of the rise of the Religious Right, and so answer to the imperatives not of public safety, but of conservative religious sexual norms. The claim that SORNAs fail to protect potential victims has been made before. This article adds to the scholarship by …


Toward A New Confessions Test: Replacing Voluntariness With Power, Steven R. Morrison Jan 2007

Toward A New Confessions Test: Replacing Voluntariness With Power, Steven R. Morrison

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.


Will To Power, Will To Reality, And Racial Profiling: How The White Male Dominant Power Structure Creates Itself As Law Abiding Citizen Through The Creation Of Black As Criminal, Steven R. Morrison Jan 2007

Will To Power, Will To Reality, And Racial Profiling: How The White Male Dominant Power Structure Creates Itself As Law Abiding Citizen Through The Creation Of Black As Criminal, Steven R. Morrison

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.