Sex Offender Law Reform Bibliography

Davey, Monica and Abby Goodnough. Three-part series: "Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison" (4 March 2007), "A Record of Failure at a Center for Sex Offenders" (5 March 2007), "For Sex Offenders, Dispute on Therapy's Benefits (6 March 2007), in New York Times.

Elton, Catherine, "Behind the Picket Fence", in Boston Globe Magazine, 6 May 2007.

Janus, Eric S. "Closing Pandora's Box: Sexual Predators and the Politics of Sexual Violence, in Legal Studies Research Papers Series (William Mitchell College of Law), Working Paper No. 7, April 2005.

Janus, Eric S. Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Janus, Eric S. "The Preventive State, Terrorists and Sexual Predators: Countering the Threat of a New Outsider Jurisprudence", in Legal Studies Research Papers Series (William Mitchell College of Law), Working Paper No. 11, May 2005.

Kennedy, Randy. "Sex, With Consequences", in New York Times: Week in Review, 3 June 2007.

Kirkegaard, Hugh and Wayne Northey, "The Sex Offender as Scapegoat: Vigilante Violence and a Faith Community Response", at www.emory.edu/College. 2 May 2000.

Krueger, Richard B. and Adam Shajnfeld. "Reforming (purportedly) Non-Punitive Responses to Sexual Offending", in Developments in Mental Health Law 81 (July 2006), 81-99.

Krueger, Richard B. "The new American witch hunt", in Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2007.

Miller, Jerome. Et al. "Towards More Effective Sex Offence Legislation", Available at National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, Inc., http://www.NCIANET.org or call (410) 265-1490.

Nathan, Debbie. "Hysteria, Exploitation and Witch-Hunting in the Age of Internet Sex", in Counterpunch, April 2007.

"Pariah". "Scapegoats and Shunning: Sexual Fascism in Progressive America", on Counterpunch website, 4-5 March 2006.

Radford, Benjamin. "Predator Panic: Reality Check on Sex Offenders" in Skeptical Inquirer, 16 May 2006.

Rosen, David. "Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration", on Counterpunch website, [date unknown].

Rosen , David. "The New Disappeared: Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement and the Resurrection of Evil", on Counterpunch website, 10 May 2007.

Singer , Peter. "A Private Affair?", syndicated column in Boston Herald, 16 May 2007.

Wakefield, Hollida. "The Vilification of Sex Offenders: Do Laws Targeting Sex Offenders Increase Recidivism and Sexual Violence?" in Journal of Sexual Offender Civil Commitment Science and Law 1 (2006), 141-149.

Suggested Publication

THE ALLIANCE is a Quarterly publication of the New York State Alliance of Sex Offender Service Providers (NYSASOSP) and the New York State Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (NYSATSA).