A high-profile piece of research recently suggested that the sons and brothers of convicted sex offenders are more likely to be convicted of sex crimes than others. The implication is that the potential for committing a sex ...
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Apr 21, 2015
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The more violent and prepared a would-be child abductor is, the more vulnerable victims are to being taken, new research has found.
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Mar 29, 2019
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The first rigorous analysis of the crime-fighting power of DNA profiling finds substantial evidence of its effectiveness.
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Jan 11, 2013
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A new report involving over 2,000 experts in online child sex offending has made strong recommendations on how to better prevent the growing problem of child sexual offending on the internet.
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Jun 21, 2019
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With a nod to the importance of social media in American life, the Supreme Court signaled Monday it could strike down a North Carolina law that bars convicted sex offenders from Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites.
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Feb 27, 2017
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Murderers who committed homicide during robberies are more likely to commit crimes again when they are paroled, compared to murderers who committed homicide under other circumstances, according to research from North Carolina ...
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Feb 3, 2014
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A March 2011 news posting from Kingman, Ariz., reports that a convicted sex offender broke into a home, kidnapped an eight-year-old girl, and molested her outside. Such an unfortunate event and others like it have spawned ...
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Jun 12, 2012
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The man arrested after a deadly gun attack in Darwin Tuesday night is reported to have been on parole and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
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Jun 5, 2019
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A life sentence in many states rarely means offenders will spend a lifetime behind bars. In fact, offenders sentenced for murder served just 15 years on average before initial release from state prison, according to a recent ...
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Dec 18, 2018
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The promise to "get tough on youth crime" is a New Zealand election perennial. This year, parties on both the left and right have pledged to crack down on young offenders—despite a lot of evidence that such approaches do ...
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