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.

This site is to denounce the spree of sexual attacks that happened in Central Park during the Puerto Rican Day Parade 2000.

Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.

Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.

These considerations are presented as a general framework for therapists, human resource workers, guardians and legal professionals when family reunification becomes a goal after an incest child sex offense has been committed.

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.

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 is the use of someone's higher emotions, such as love, without consent. How to survive and avoid it.

No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.

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.

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.

Sexual degenerates seem a strange group to protect. Most have been irremediably warped by exposure to the Internet's fields of psychic rupture, and electronic brain rot.

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.

Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva.

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.

Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan.

California case highlights tension between children's safety and offenders' privacy. Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.

As appeared in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 10, No. 2.

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.

President Clinton used his weekly radio address Saturday to call for a national registry of sex offenders. (CNN)

Law puts the responsibility for tracking sex offenders on virtually everyone but law enforcement agencies.

AP - During a traffic stop last November, a Macomb County Sheriff's deputy discovered convicted sex offender Warren Tucker had failed to register a change of address with the state.

including, "Crimes Against Children: Is the sex offender law working?" by Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Houston Chronicle - When posters and fliers warning of a child molester appeared mysteriously in a neighborhood here, residents quickly called Fort Bend County authorities.

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.

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.

California lawyer publicized the release from prison of his brother, a sexual abuser.

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.

Suspect allegedly failed to give police new address.

Articles and Resources on Offender Registration.

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.

New technology at its best, right? No, this is just part 2 of the state's warped and illogical system of justice for sex-crime perpetrators.

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.

Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.

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.

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.

New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.

Florida became one of a handful of states with laws allowing the civil commitment of sex offenders after they had completed their prison sentences.

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.

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.

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.

Child molesters could face "chemical castration" under a unique and controversial California bill aimed at stifling the sex drives of convicted pedophiles.

Sex offenders from New England to the Hawaiian Islands may want to stop crossing off the days on their cellblock calendars.

An intimate memoir, full of light and hope, about a woman's journey toward overcoming the effects of a violent rape.

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.

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.

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.

Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally.

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.

Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.

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.

Accuses Bill Caldwell of being a child sex predator.

Paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior discussing the history of unfounded or exaggerated rape allegations.

Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently.