In this rather astonishing story an Australian female author was charged with child pornography for having written a fictional novel about an 18-year old woman’s relationship with a man who has fantasized about her since she was a toddler. The defendant has pleaded not guilty to possessing, disseminating, and producing child abuse material. The case […]
The Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan public policy think tank, recently published a report about the sizeable sex offender population that exists amongst homeless people in the United States. Some of the results of the study reveal that in 32 states more than 10 percent of unsheltered homeless populations are registered sex offenders. And in eight […]
HARD COPY: Statutory rape earns gay men twice as much prison time A newly published study in Behavioral Sciences and the Law documents statistically significant discrimination in judicial sentencing for U.S. men who become involved in relationships with teen boys, as opposed to girls of the same age. Out of a large sample of men incarcerated for […]
