Sex Offenders Register in UK Law
- Legal Commentary: Children on the Sex Offenders Register: Proportionality, Prospect of Change and Article 8 Rights
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Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: An example of preventative injustice?
This article analyses the use of criminal justice measures aimed at the prevention of sexual offending across England and Wales. Specifically, it focuses on measures such as the ‘sex offenders regi.........Specifically, it focuses on measures such as the ‘sex offenders register’ and sexual offences prevention orders (SOPOs) and the use of ......
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Preventing the Criminalisation of Children Who Have Been Victims of Group-Based Sexual Exploitation Involving Grooming Tactics—Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation as Enslavement
Recently the United Kingdom has been beset by a moral panic concerning gangs grooming girls for sexual exploitation. This moral panic derived from a number of well-publicised cases, the most infamo......... to two years in prison and being automatically placed on the sex offenders register. The Act is intended to protect children from abuse and ......
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An Exploration of Third Party Disclosure and Outcomes in Registered Sex Offenders
Disclosure - sharing specific information about an offender with a third party - is an important tool in the range of risk management options available to agencies when managing convicted sex offen.........The scheme is primarily the responsibility of the police, who manage a clear access route for the public to register their child protection interest in a named individual and - should there be relevant convictions and a risk posed - to receive a disclosure of ......
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Vigilance and Vigilantes
This paper applies a psychoanalytic approach to the protests of members of `Residents Against Paedophiles' on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, UK, in August 2000. It sets these in the context o......... strains existing in the British government’s policy onsexual offenders. It is argued that the protests demonstrate theexistence of links between ... Payne, uncontrolled public access to the offenders register is not tobe allowed. It remains the stated belief of the Home Office that ......
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A comparative analysis of Australian sex offender legislation for sex offender registries
Australia has followed the course taken by other English-speaking countries in recent years of enacting legislation that requires convicted sexual offenders to register personal details with law en......... years of enacting legislation that requires convicted sexual offenders to register personal details with law enforcement agencies. These laws ......
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Book Review: The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders: A Comparative Study
...... policy, discussing how sex-offender registration relates to reg- istration in general (Chapters 2 and 3), the development of the American register (Chapter 4), its impact internationally (Chapters 5–7), as well as the impact of sex- offender registration on offender manage- ment and recidivism ......
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Book review: Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities and Sex Offenses
...... a crucial exploration into the subject of working with offenders convicted of child porno- graphy or sexual abuse charges. It ... Chapter 5, Horowitz explores the development of the Sex Offenders Register in the United States in the last 20 years. Horowitz asserts that a moral ......
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Power Imbalance: Adult Victims in the Criminal Justice System. Special Edition—Part 2
...... Dr Brenda Midson, entitled, ‘Innocent Victims and Vulnerable Offenders: Legal Responses to Impaired Adults Who Kill Children’, focuses on child ... in prison and being automatically placed on the sex offenders register. These laws are intended to protect children from abuse and exploitation. ......
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Beyond the ‘sext’: Technology-facilitated sexual violence and harassment against adult women
Young people's use of technology as a tool for the negotiation of their sexual identities and encounters has increasingly become a focal point in popular and scholarly discussion. Much of this deba......... distribute them to others, are at risk of being added to a sex offenders register under Australian criminal law (see e.g. the NSW Safe Sexting: No ......
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