A more accurate number might be gleaned from a U.S. Department of Justice study, which found that of nearly 10,000 people convicted of sexual crimes and released from state prisons in 1994 — the year ...

Treatment is a far more effective tool than incarceration for rehabilitating first-time juvenile sex offenders, for whom recidivism rates are generally below 5%, said Caldwell, the psychologist.

There are some 800,000 registered sex offenders across the US, according to data compiled from federal records. But the number of predators is likely much higher than that. Only about 38% of ...

At least five level 2 and level 3 sex offenders — the worst of the worst, including one monster who had sex with a 7-year-old — are living in a homeless shelter at 61 Chrystie St., 243 feet ...

Your neighbors should reveal the offender’s conviction and if he is classified as low-risk, they should reveal that and explain the circumstances – for instance, if he was 19 and had a sexual ...

Registered sex offenders are mixing and mingling — and finding victims on free dating apps and websites including Tinder, OKCupid and Plenty of Fish, a new investigation reveals.

Sex offender registries, which were opposed by civil libertarians from the start, are probably here to stay; so, too, the civil confinement laws, which allow the government to lock up individuals ...

Public sex offender registries, created In the 1990s in response to a number of horrific crimes against children, are getting a second look as critics across the country demand changes, saying the ...

Commentary Sex Offender Registries Can Cause Families and Partners To Become Collateral Damage Deserved or not, it is easy to label any person convicted of a sex crime, "a danger to society." Let ...

Mr. Hill was charged with fraudulently altering the ID to hide his sex-offender status. He objected on First Amendment grounds, and the trial judge ruled in his favor, immediately, from the bench.

The size of Colorado's sex offender registry, now at roughly 20,000 people, is but one in a slew of reasons a growing chorus of lawyers, lawmakers, researchers, people on the registry itself, and ...

More sex offenders have gone to court to remove their names from Iowa's registry. 'It is wrong,' victim says of her abuser getting off public list.