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Author:  Roslyn K. Myers, Ph.D., J.D..


Source: Volume 20, Number 03, April/May 2019 , pp.33-48(16)




Sex Offender Law Report

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Abstract: 

The complete issue version includes all of the articles listed in the table of contents above. Also includes brief coverage of the U.S. v. McIntosh, 900 F.3d 1301 (11th Cir. 2018), a case in which the federal appeals court ruled that a personality disorder could be regarded as a mental disease adequate to justify involuntary civil commitment; a review of a recent report from the Vera Institute of Justice identifying gaps in the reporting of bias crimes (“Bias Crime Assessment: A Tool and Guidelines for Law Enforcement and Concerned Communities”); and a recent Harvard study that sought to explain why “evidence-based” policies are often not based on evidence at all, while confirmed and useful research findings and their supporting data are ignored by policy makers (“When ‘What Works’ Doesn’t Work: The Limits of Evidence-Based Policymaking, ”Government Innovators Network).

Keywords: Sexting; Coercive Nonconsensual Sharing; Risk Assessment Measures; Civil Commitment; Bias Crimes

Affiliations:  1: Editor.

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