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Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation - http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html
Scientific research does not provide any evidence that gay men or lesbians are any more likely than heterosexuals to molest children. |
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Still No Takers Under Texas Castration Law - http://www2.utmb.edu/pleich/updates.htm
Texas become the first state in the U.S. to specifically approve surgical castration for offenders convicted of certain sex crimes. |
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1996 National Victim Assistance Academy - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa/ch21-8cc.htm
Federal legislation that requires colleges to compile and publish annual campus security reports. |
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Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse -- Later Criminal Consequences - http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/abuse.txt
Previous research established evidence for a cycle of violence: people who were abused and neglected in childhood are more likely than those who were not to become involved in criminal behavior, including violent crime, later in life. |
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Sex Crimes, Punishment, and Therapy - http://www.csun.edu/~psy453/crimes_y.htm
Is chemical castration an acceptable punishment for male sex offenders? |
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Female Sexual Abusers: A Theory of Loss - http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume2/j2_4_1.htm
Awareness about female sexual abuse perpetrators has increased in recent years. The best estimates put female perpetrators of sexual abuse at about 20% for male children and 5% for female children. |
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Dangerousness: Predicting Recidivism in Violent Sex Offenders - http://www.corpus-delicti.com/danger.html
When a violent sex offender has been tried and convicted of his crime(s), he may be proffered to a mental health facility of some variable nature for assessment and treatment. |
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Campus Crime and Victimization - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa99/chap21-4.htm
Crime on college and university campuses first captured media attention in the mid-1980s and brought the issue into public view. |
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Economics of Implementing Intensive In-prison Sex-offender Treatment Programs - http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi134.html
Since the mid-1980s economic evaluation has become an essential appraisal tool of health and related social services. |
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Assessing Violent Recidivism in Sexual Offenders - http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume10/j10_6.htm
Forensic and clinical psychologists have long been asked to make predictions about violence, despite the fact that, in the past, such predictions have been notoriously inaccurate. |