The Sad Legacy of Sex Laws:
Deaths, Suicides, Murders & Vigilantism
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Registration & Community Notification:
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Understanding Recidivism Statistics:
The basis of registration: RECIDIVISM
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How Mental Health System Calculates:
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Risk Assessment Tools/Instruments:
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Violations / Myths / Hysteria:
United Nations
Human Rights Laws:
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Myths / Media Hysteria:
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Forced to Register Unnecessarily:
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Helpful Info for Sex offenders, Spouses & their Familes:
Support Groups:
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The Big Five Concerns:
Identity, Housing, Family, Employment, Food:
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Accessing Courts, Congress & State Legislatures:
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Model Relapse Prevention Plan & Book Reviews:
Beyond the Abuse: A Personal Recovery Program
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Book Reviews:
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Innocence Projects & Evidence:
The Innocence Project:
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992, is a non-profit legal clinic. This Project only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. For more information regarding what we do and what kinds of cases we handle, please click on the Innocence Project tab or read our FAQ page.
Resource List of Innocence Projects:
National and State list of "Innocence Projects" that may take a case. Some of the Projects show under what circumstances they will consider a case. You must contact them with all facts and they will decide, IF they will take a case or not.
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts:
A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers.
Factors Leading to Wrongful Convictions:
From The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
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Brainwave Lie Detection:
The Pinocchio Effect: A liar’s nose doesn’t grow longer—but a USC psychology researcher is tracking other telltale signs of deception embedded in the human brain.
1-15-2005 United Kingdom:
The future of lying
.As the British government unveils plans to make lie detector tests mandatory for convicted paedophiles, some scientists in the US are working on more advanced technology which might be better equipped at detecting deception.
The US Department of Defense has given Dr Jennifer Vendemia (University of South Carolina) a $5m grant to work on her theory that by monitoring brainwaves she can detect whether someone is lying. She claims the system has an accuracy of between 94% and 100% and is an improvement on the existing polygraph tests, .....
Her system involves placing 128 electrodes on the face and scalp, which translate brainwaves in under a second. Subjects only have to hear interrogators' questions to give a response. But the system has a long way to go before it replaces polygraphs, .....
: by Chris Summers, BBC News
..more.. See also: Creator of brainwave lie detector fears it may be misused
The brain scan that can read people's intentions: A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future. --more--
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Polygraph Evidence:
» The Polygraph and Lie Detection: This is quite an online book about "Polygraphs." Some pages take a bit longer to load, but the information is well worth the time. (The Open Book page image presentation framework is not designed to replace printed books. Rather, it is a free, browsable, nonproprietary, fully and deeply searchable version of the publication which we can inexpensively and quickly produce to make the material available worldwide.) (Copyright 2003, the National Academies Press.)
»5-29 UK: When the detector lies: why polygraph use will be restricted!Serious questions have been raised about the use of lie detectors when it comes to the criminal justice system. Those involved in the Home Office's study into the use of the technology with convicted sex offenders admit that doubts over its accuracy mean it should not be used as an investigative tool or evidentially. However they believe regular polygraph testing is an effective way of monitoring paedophiles and protecting children.
(Guardian Unlimited)....more....
» 6-20-03 Polygraph "Testing" Has No Scientific Basis: Despite claims of better than 90% accuracy, polygraph "testing" has not been proven through peer-reviewed scientific research to reliably work at better than chance levels under field conditions. (Anti Polygraph.org)
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Penile Plethysmograph (Males):
PhotoPlethysmograph (Females):
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"I can't make a change, I'm just one person!" Really?
Get to know these grass roots organizations, each began with
'Just-One-Person'!
»Sex Abuse Treatment Alliance (S.A.T.A.)
A national organization of professionals, therapists, victims, those who have offended, families of those affected,
and other community representatives dedicated to reducing and preventing sexual abuse.
»Citizens for Second Chances (CSC)
A Michigan Based Support Group For Families of Individuals Convicted of -or- Charged With A Sex Offense. These folks have been working to have the Michigan legislature enact new legislation which affects certain sub-groups of sex offenders and have been quite successful.
»Texas: Save Our TexSONS
A Texas Based Support Group For Families of Persons Convicted of A Sex Offense. This is a new group trying to effect legislation which affects young offenders.
»Ethical Treatment for All Youth!
A Maryland based advocacy, advocating "Ethical Treatment" for youth, "Deemed abnormal and dangerous to society, the children who are currently considered unworthy of accepted therapeutic and ethical principles.".
»Families for Fairness
A Tennessee based group, with a unique perspective, established to raise public and legislative awareness to the collateral consequences of registration laws on innocent families of registered offenders. Families for Fairness promote registration laws for those at high risk of re-offense.
»PrisonerAdvocacy.Org
PrisonerAdvocacy.org is a service of the Michigan office of The American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program. Michigan's Criminal Justice Program advocates for the rights and privileges of over 1,500 Michigan prisoners each year. The principle motives behind our work are to: Ensure that prisoners and their families are able to obtain their rights and privileges; Erode the barriers between those inside and outside of prison, and Advocate for humane conditions and treatment of prisoners housed by the State of Michigan.
Lawyers / Law firms
»Michigan's Criminal Defense Resource Center (SADO)
Finding Criminal Defense Attorneys in Michigan.
(Contains a Consumer's Guide to Legal Help, from the American Bar Association, which is excellent, and it applies nationally.)
»Lawyers.com:
Martindale-Hubbell
Find a lawyer anywhere in the nation.
» National Legal Aid Lawyers:
Attorneys for folks without funds.
This link (slow loading) is to find Legal Aid lawyers in most parts of the nation. Find the closest one to you, call them and ask if they can help your situation.
IF THEY CANNOT HELP YOU, then ask them for a referral to a local lawyer who can handle your questions. In addition, ask them if there is a University Law Program which may handle your situation, give them a call also.
If they is no Legal Aid Office near you, then look in your phone book for a listing for "Lawyer Referral," usually every state Bar Association posts such a listing. Finally, call any lawyer in the phone book and ask these questions. Somewhere there is a lawyer who can take your case.
Other Valuable Advocacy Organizations ......
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Most Popular Governmental Sites:
Many government web sites
do not operate on weekends and holidays!
» Legal FormsLegal Forms for Every State & Federal Courts
» Congress.orgEverything About the U.S. Congress
» FirstGov.govEverything About the U.S. Government
» GovSpot.comEverything About the U.S. Government ++
» Dep't of JusticeEverything About the U.S. Dep't of Justice
» Bureau of JusticeEverything About the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
» FBI Crime ReportsEverything About FBI Uniform Crime Reports
» Security on CampusEverything About Security on College Campus, Inc.
» National FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Data MapFrom the Associated Press
» National Criminal Justice Reference ServiceEverything About Justice Facts & Statistics
» Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OjjDP)Everything About Juvenile Justice Facts & Figures
» National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ)The National Center for Juvenile Justice (the Center) is a private, non-profit organization. Since its inception in 1973, the Center has been a resource for independent and original research on topics related directly and indirectly to the field of juvenile justice
» The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)Founded in 1978 as part of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the NACJD is supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice
» The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects
» 7-1-03 LLI Legal Information Institute: Highlights of the Supreme Court’s 2002-2003 Term! During the past term the Supreme Court ruled on: This is a wonderful central access point for all cases ruled on this term. (By LLI Legal Information Institute)
» U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
» Interstate Commission for Adult Supervision (ICOAS)
Need a copy of the Constitution, Magna Carta, etc...
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