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See This Empty Cage Now Corrode: The International Human Rights And Comparative Law Implications Of Sexually Violent Predator Laws, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo
See This Empty Cage Now Corrode: The International Human Rights And Comparative Law Implications Of Sexually Violent Predator Laws, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo
Articles & Chapters
From every perspective, our sexually violent predator (SVPA) laws are a miserable failure. In this paper, we present a new approach: a turn to international human rights law as a source of rights for the population in question, and a consideration of the matter from the perspective of comparative law.
To briefly summarize, many nations have enacted laws that both mirror and contradict early developments in United States civil commitment jurisprudence. In these nations, though, challenges to community containment and preventive detention laws have been more successful when based upon international human rights law. Also, registry notification is generally far …
Friend Request Pending: Does A Rare Victory Before The Seventh Circuit Mean Sex Offenders Will Finally Receive Fair Treatment From Courts?, Matt Dillinger
Friend Request Pending: Does A Rare Victory Before The Seventh Circuit Mean Sex Offenders Will Finally Receive Fair Treatment From Courts?, Matt Dillinger
Seventh Circuit Review
Sex offender laws have spiraled out of control in recent years. Yet, despite the irrationality and punitive nature of many of these laws, courts have overwhelmingly sided with states in constitutional challenges. However, recent case law suggests that courts may no longer be willing to give states the benefit of the doubt where substantial individual rights are implicated. In Doe v. Prosecutor, Marion County, Indiana, the Seventh Circuit struck down an Indiana law that banned certain registered sex offenders from using social media websites, finding the law facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment. This comment argues that the court …
Community Supervision Of Sex Offenders -- Integrating Probation And Clinical Treatment, Michael J. Jenuwine, Ronald Simmons, Edward Swies
Community Supervision Of Sex Offenders -- Integrating Probation And Clinical Treatment, Michael J. Jenuwine, Ronald Simmons, Edward Swies
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