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

KY High Court Denies Stay In Residency Restrictions Challenge
In October, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a state law prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools, playgrounds, and day care centers could not be applied retroactively, to those convicted before the enactment of…
11th Circuit Upholds SORNA (Again)
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in a case involving various challenges to SORNA, including under the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses. The constitutional issues were previously decided by the…
FL Policy Analyst: Residency Restrictions are Ineffective
A legislative policy analyst today told Florida legislators that sex offender residency restrictions do not work. The analyst cited studies from Minnesota, Colorado and Florida, which found no connection between where sex offenders lived and…
CA Supreme Court Hears Challenge To Residency Restrictions
The California Supreme Court heard a challenge to the state's sex offender residency restriction law. The plaintiffs in the case are four sex offenders who were found living within 2,000 feet of place where children…
SCOTUS Schedules Oral Argument In Comstock For Jan. 2010
Thanks to SCOTUSblog, we see that the Supreme Court has scheduled the oral argument in a list of cases beginning in January 2010, including United State v. Comstock (resource page available here), which is scheduled…
TVs For Sex Offender Program Now Going to MN Guard
Earlier, we told you about Minnesota's Moose Lake Sex Offenders Program, which lost 24 of its new 50-inch plasma TVs. Now, WKBT.com reports that some of those TVs will go to the Minnesota Guard. From…
Halloween Sex Offender Roundup
Here is a (spooky?) collection of Halloween sex offender news stories from around the web: From Sentencing Law & Policy, we learn that certain Alabama sex offenders are required to attend an educational meeting on…
Student Post - The Need for More Civil Confinement of Sexual Predators in Illinois
Civil commitment of sexual predators in Illinois is a process by which an independent company, Affiliated Psychologists, evaluates inmates prior to release to determine the likelihood of recidivism of sexual predators. They evaluate approximately 2000…
Student Post - Cook County Sherriff Tom Dart Accuses Craigslist of Promoting Prostitution
Craigslist is such a useful website. I have used it in the past to look for apartments, secure my first job before law school as a pre-school teacher, and find hard to get tickets to…
New Resource Pages
You might notice off to the left that Sex Crimes now includes resource pages for two significant Supreme Court cases related to the AWA. As with the Kennedy v. Louisiana Resource Page, I hope to…