Recently I read a study from Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Public Health/Dec.6, 2017 titled “Children on Sex Offender Registries at Greater Risk for Suicide Attempts, Study Suggests.” The article discussed how children who are legally required to register as sex…
Category: journalism
West Virginia’s Fake News Regarding Sex Offenders
I thought it started out as a good news article from The Exponent Telegram in West Virginia. A judge was reading sex offender rules to a defendant at a sentencing hearing. The author of the article correctly noted that defendants…
A Heartless Man Without A Soul
CBS/ South Florida recently had Ron Book/Chairman of Miami-Dade Homeless Trust debating with host and investigative reporter Jim DeFede about the Miami-Dade homeless encampment that has recently been shut down. You would think someone who’s chairman of something called the…
Does Social Justice Exist for Registrants?
There are dozens of definitions of Social Justice. Wikipedia defines it as the concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities…
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
I didn’t think I could do it. I didn’t think I was strong enough. I thought it would kill me. I was sure I would break down, fall apart into a million pieces and just die. And so, I waited.…
Shaming the Constitution
Shaming the Constitution: The Detrimental Results of Sexual Violent Predator Legislation by Michael L. Perlin and Heather Ellis Cucolo, Temple University Press 2017 is a must read for registrants and their families. This book provides interesting and accurate information courts…
Don’t Ever Pee Behind A Tree
Journalists, you’ve got to love em, they mean well, well, most of them. Journalist’s Amy Iverson’s article “Should Sex Offenders Be Banned From Facebook?”/Deseret News/Utah was probably well-meant. The piece, written after the recent oral arguments to the North Carolina…
Irresponsible Journalism When It Comes To Sex Offenders
This past week a local newspaper ran a series of articles on the plight of the homeless. The headline to a sidebar in the article announced “No One Wants To Deal With Sex Offenders”. This was my first issue with…