Archive for 'Sex offenders' Category
The Perverse Politics of Virtual Child Porn Law
6 July 2009In 2006, the UK Home Office (which has since devolved many of its powers to the Ministry of Justice) announced plans to criminalise the possession of “non-photographic images of child sexual abuse” (BBC, 2006). The justification for this law was based upon several assumptions, none of which are supported empirically.
The first and most significant claim […]
The Bill Designed to Create Sex Offenders
12 September 2007A source sent me a link to an article describing the manipulative measures used to push through the “Surrogate Stalker Act,” a link to the bill itself, and a list of the e-mail addresses of Californian Senators and Assemblymembers, now posted here.
Excerpts from Eureka Reporter
“If this bill eventually makes its way through the legislative process […]
Why Abuse Does Not Justify Ignorance
25 August 2007Allow me to begin this article by stating that I do feel sorry for people who have been sexually abused. The vast majority of people who have been sexually abused deserve sympathy and compassion. Unfortunately, there are some abuse victims whose opinions are warped to the point where they feel that their experiences justify attacks […]
A Wonderful Example of Bad “Science”
21 August 2007From New Scientist:
“Even accounting for an expected decrease in grey matter due to lower IQ scores, Schiffer’s group found that the paedophiles had about 2 to 4% less grey matter in the orbitofrontal cortex – an area of the brain that plays an important role in high-level decision making and reasoning.”
This would sound rather frightening, […]
The Indecent Nature of Indecency Laws
29 June 2007I’ve been intending to write a post about this for months, but a recent case persuaded me to actually write it.
A Reverend from Northern Ireland has been convicted for offences involving indecent images of children, after his home was raided following UK customs’ interception of a video depicting non-sexual nudity involving boys. Such images would […]
Controlled Release Is Like Sarah’s Law
9 June 2007In what appears to be yet another U-turn at the Home Office, just two months after a previous decision on the matter of dealing with sex offenders, it has been announced that parents will be given access to the names and addresses of child sex offenders. While it is widely agreed that children should be […]
No Joy For UK Vigilantes
10 April 2007When even children’s charities don’t want it…… you know it’s a bad “child protection law.”
The Home Office (UK) have suggested that Sarah’s Law will NOT be implemented in the UK.
From the illegally discriminatory article at the BBC -
“A spokesman for the children’s charity Barnardo’s said: “The indications from Home Office sources that people in […]
Laws Outing Sex Offenders - Ethical?
9 April 2007This article is written to respond to a BBC article here, which is incorrectly described as a “law on paedophiles”
Personally, if I were a parent, I wold like to know if a child molester were living near me, so I understand where the “laws” naming “high-risk sex offenders” come from. The issue is that they’re […]
Quotes on the occurence of paedophilia in CSOs
15 March 2007“. . . most data suggest that only a relatively small portion of the population of incarcerated sexual offenders against minors consists of persons for whom minors (particularly children) represent the exclusive or even primary object of sexual interest or source of arousal (Freund, Watson, & Dickey, 1991; Gebhard et al., 1965; Howells, 1981; Lang […]