RSOL Documentation: Topical Index

Topical Index

The footnotes provides background information and links to official documentation that validate claims made in the RSOL Introduction and Statement. Use this Topical Index as a guide to all the content in the footnotes. Several notes also link to related reports at the website, Sex Offender Laws Research (SOLR), supplementing those notes with more detailed information.
Please send comments or new information to research at SOLresearch dot org.

Contents

Use the table below to find footnotes and related SOL Research reports about the following topics:

•	Culture
•	Law
•	Punishment

•	Supplemental pages

Topic

Footnotes and Reports

Basic information on sex offender registries

•	See Note I-1 and *Introduction to the Sex Offender Registries*.

History of sex offender registries

•	See *Origin of the Sex Offender Registries*.

Culture

Ordinary people surprised to find themselves labeled as sex offenders

•	See Note I-2 and *Look Who’s a Sex Offender Now!*

Culture of fear

•	See Note I-10.

Diverting attention from real dangers to children

•	See Note I-6 and *How Children are Harmed*.

Juvenile sex offenders

•	See Note I-7 and *Criminalizing Child’s Play*.
•	Re differences in punishing children for sexual versus nonsexual offenses, see Note S-38.
•	Re age of youngest "offenders," see Note I-25 and Note I-26.
•	Re use of aversive therapies on children, see Note I-27.
•	Re civil commitment for an offense committed as a juvenile, see Note S-22.

Characteristics of people who hurt or have sexual contact with children

•	Re relationship of abusers to the children abused, see Note S-18 and *Family and Strangers*.
•	Re violence of people attracted to children, see Note S-14.
•	Re medical definition of pedophilia, see Note S-15.

Repeat offense rates of sex offenders

•	See Note S-19.

Political pressure to support sex offender laws

•	See Note S-32.

Destructive effect on society of demonizing its individuals

•	See Note S-24.

Does anyone stand up for sex offenders?

•	See Note S-31 and A Congressman Stands Alone against the Walsh Act.

Changes that have been proposed

•	See Note S-33.

Law

National age of sexual consent in the US

•	See Note I-5 and *The US Federal Age of Sexual Consent*.

Mandatory reporting laws for hurting or sexual contact with a child

•	See Note S-25 and Note S-26.

Prosecution of innocent people

•	Re lumping together of the innocent and the guilty, see Note I-8.
•	Re false accusations, see Note I-11 and *False Accusations of Sex with Juveniles*.
•	Re recovered memories, see Note I-13.

Prosecuting for violence when there was no violence

•	See Note I-30.

Erosion of civil rights in the justice system

•	See Note I-4.
•	Re elimination of statutes of limitations, see Note I-12.
•	Re ex post facto law, see Note S-28.
•	Re response of human rights advocates, see Note S-31.

Punishment

How many registered sex offenders there are

•	See Note I-22, Note I-23, Note I-24, Note S-4 as well as *Counting and Over-Counting Sex Offenders*.

Harsh treatment for minor infractions

•	See Note I-9 and Note S-3.

Extraordinarily harsh punishments, even for nonviolent sex offences

•	Re length of sentences, see Note I-14 and *Throwing Away the Key*.
•	Re lifetime internment (indefinite civil commitment) of sex offenders, see Note I-29, Note I-30, Note S-30, and *Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders*.
•	Re number of people in civil commitment, the number that get released, and treatment provided, see Note I-31, Note I-32, and Note I-33.
•	Re civil commitment for offenses committed as a juvenile, see Note S-22.
•	Re death penalty for nonviolent sex offenses, see Note I-15 and Note S-30.

Curtailment of civil liberties of sex offenders

•	Re residency restrictions and discrimination, see Note I-17.
•	Re employment restrictions and discrimination, see Note I-16.
•	Re presence restrictions (where they are allowed to be), see Note I-20.
•	Re travel restrictions, see Note I-19.
•	Re remote monitoring, see Note S-10 and Note S-11.
•	Re response of human rights advocates, see Note S-31.

Suicides and murders of sex offenders

•	See Note I-18.

Supplemental pages

•	Revisions to the RSOL Pages
•	SOL Research (associated website)