Sex Crimes

"A blog devoted to the criminal laws regulating and punishing sex offenders."

Author: Corey Rayburn Yung is an assistant professor of law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

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Recent Posts from Sex Crimes

Cal. Court: Registration Requirements are Punishment Under Apprendi
Sentencing Law & Policy posts about a new California Court of Appeal opinion which found that "the residency restrictions in California's sex offender registration law are 'punishment' for Apprendi purposes." You may view the opinion…
Accused Necrophiliacs in Wisconsin Claim Innocence
Three Wisconsin men who are accused of necrophilia entered not guilty pleas. Recently, lawyers for the men sought and were denied a change of venue. From Pioneer Press:Three men accused of trying to dig up…
Oregon Man Gets 6 Years For Attempted Sexual Abuse of a 12 Year Old
An Oregon man has received a 6 year prison sentence for attempted sexual abuse after sending sexual texts to a 12 year old girl. Her mother saw the messages and notified police who then arrested…
Georgia's Sex Offender Law Called "Mindlessly Harsh"
Although it is not the first Georgia newspaper to recognize the problem, the Augusta Chronicle ran an excellent op-ed piece arguing against Georgia's one-size-fits-all approach to sex offender regulation. From the editorial:Should the law punish…
Carnival Against Sexual Violence 59
It's up at abyss2hope. Here is the legal section:In Rape Is Never the Fault Of the Victim posted at Womanist Musings, we get a discussion of a gang rape case in the UK where a14…
10th Circuit Rules on SORNA's Retroactivity
In U.S. v. Husted, the 10th Circuit has gone against the majority of courts reviewing SORNA prosecutions by finding that retroactive application of the statute to interstate travel before the passage of the Act was…
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Law Barring Single Parents From Living With Sex Offenders
In a divided opinion, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a law barring single parents from living with convicted sex offenders. You can read the opinion here. From Chicago Tribune:The Iowa Supreme Court, in a split…
Technical Difficulties
It seems like blogging software of all types is failing me lately. I'm heavily dependent on Bloglines yet it has been a disaster for the last couple of weeks. Sometimes, it shows 200 new posts…
Lawsuit Challenging Parole Board Review of Sex Offender Cases
Grits has the details on a very interesting lawsuit challenging the lack of individualized review in parole restriction decisions for sex offenders in Texas. Here is the Dallas Morning News's account of some of the…
Carnival Against Sexual Violence 58
With Carnvial 59 about to come out, I realized I never posted the Legal section from 58. Here it is:In On Those Supposed “Rape Exceptions” posted at The Curvature, we get a discussion about the…