- Rape and Molestation of Women - http://www.ummah.org.uk/kashmir/atroc/rape.htm
Documented cases of rape and molestation by the Indian troops in Kashmir.
- No Safe Place - http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/
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.
- Pedophiles and Child Molesters: The Slaughter of Innocence - http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial/pedophiles/6.htm
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.
- Emotional Rape Syndrome - http://www.flash.net/~mikefox/home.htm
Emotional rape is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it.
- Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity - http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html
No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
- Sex Offender Online Registry is a Busy Site - http://www.intercerve.com/News/wral2.htm
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.
- A Question of Abuse - http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA96/levine_jump.html
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.
- Stricter Rules Cut Number of Assaults - http://amarillonet.com/stories/121996/tougher.html
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.
- Sex Predators Can't Be Saved - http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9301_a.html
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.
- Victim's Rights Abuse Protest - http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/3053/home.html
Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan.
- Sex-Crime Laws Draw More Flak - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/fp3s1-csm.htm
California case highlights tension between children's safety and offenders' privacy. Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
- Uncivil Liberties - http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9810/byteme-catalano.shtml
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.
- A Series of Articles - http://www.jsonline.com/sexoffender/
including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- Plan Proposed To Notify Sex Offenders' Neighbors - http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/page1/97/11/25/notify.2-1.html
Houston Chronicle - When posters and fliers warning of a child molester appeared mysteriously in a neighborhood here, residents quickly called Fort Bend County authorities.
- Announcement of Sexual Predator In Area Is Concern To Community - http://www.sunnews.com/news/suburbs/berea/1998/predator.htm
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.
- Ensuring Notification - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html
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.
- Tougher - http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9605/08/sex.offenders/index.shtml
Requires states to inform the public when a convicted sex offender considered a danger to the public is released from prison and settles in the neighborhood.
- ResearchWire: Megan's Law - http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm
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.
- Bill Seeks to Confine Some Sex Offenders Longer - http://centralohio.thesource.net/97/dec/043.html
A U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year has paved the way for Ohio and other states to move forward with legislation that would allow certain child molesters and other sex offenders to be confined past the point they have served a prison sentence.
- Lubbock Firm Sues DPS For Refusal to Release Database - http://amarillonet.com/stories/012198/014-4675.002.shtml
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.
- Texas Puts Records Online - http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2113268,00.html
The records, like criminal records in many states, are already publicly available. But there's a big difference between availability through the mail or by walking into the local government office, and access via any Internet-connected PC.
- Prostitution Arrests Posted Online - http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-323440.html?tag=
A 30-year-old Minnesota man was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute from his blue Ford pickup within the past 18 months. Now his name and picture are displayed on the Net, exposing his arrest not only to his neighbors, but also to people around the world.
- Tales From the Dark Side - http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html
New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
- Civil Commitment for Sexual Predators - http://www.cjjohns.com/c_law/civil_sexual.html
Florida became one of a handful of states with laws allowing the civil commitment of sex offenders after they had completed their prison sentences.
- Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html
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.
- Police Reopen Thousands of Dumped Cases - http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/16/front_page/PRAPE16.htm
The Philadelphia Police Department has launched a massive effort to reinvestigate more than 2,000 reported rapes, indecent assaults and other sex offenses dating to 1995 - cases that had been shelved by the police sex-crimes unit, often after little or no investigation.
- Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill - http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html
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.
- Texas To Use Genetic Fingerprints - http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/97/07/15/rapist-database.2-0.html
A computer database is being filled with the DNA information of some criminals. Authorities hope for it to one day be an important crime-fighting tool both on state and national levels.
- A Prison by any Other Name - http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/863/article3579.asp
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.
- Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators - http://www.psych-health.com/svp1.htm
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 security and safety procedures.
- Scotland rules out Sarah's Law - http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,618279,00.html
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.
- Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports - http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html
Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally.
- Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000 - http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html
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.
- Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html
Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.
- Central Park attacks - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/centralparkattacks/
This site is to denounce the spree of sexual attacks that happened in Central Park during the Puerto Rican Day Parade 2000.
- Take Back The News - Break The Silence - http://www.takebackthenews.net
A Boston activist project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media.
- Bill Caldwell - http://www.geocities.com/johndcrank
Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator.
- False Rape Allegations - http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/kanin.html
Paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior discussing the history of unfounded or exaggerated rape allegations.
- Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1558
Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently.
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