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...... ... totwo years in prison and being automatically placed on the sex offenders register. The Act isintended 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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Judge-made Law
... ... Convention on Human Rights 1950, Article 8, in subjecting sex offenders sentenced to 30 months or more to notification requirements on a sex ders register for the rest of their lives, without allowing any opportunity for review ... ...
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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 ofenacting legislation that requires convicted sexual offenders to register personal details withlaw enforcement agencies. These laws have ... ...
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Book Review: The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders: A Comparative Study
... ... policy, discussinghow sex-offender registration relates to reg-istration in general (Chapters 2 and 3), thedevelopment 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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Thomas Crofts, Murray Lee, Alyce McGovern and Sanja Milivojevic, Sexting and young people.
... ... could get a young person arrested and put onthe Sex Offenders ... ...
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Risk, discretion, accountability and control: Police perceptions of sex offender risk management policy in England and Wales
This article argues that understanding current approaches to sex offender risk management and its operationalization must account for front line situational decision-making practices and the cultur...... ... the effectiveness of the current system of categorizing sex offenders and suggests concerns about accountability and a lack of resources results ... of ‘public protection sentences’, the ‘sex offenders register’ and the multi-agency risk management of sexual offenders among others ... ...
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