Sex offenses
The policy and practice of responding to sexual offenses
- More than 6,000 people across 20 states were confined in punitive "civil commitment systems" in 2022 (Created: 2023)
- Why does Illinois' "civil commitment" system confine people from marginalized groups at such high rates? (Created: 2023)
- Involuntary commitment in the justice system (Created: 2023)
- Nine-year recidivism rates by offense category (Created: 2019)
- Nine-year recidivism rates by offense category (Created: 2019)
- Some states detain people convicted for sexual crimes after they have completed their prison sentences (Created: 2017)
- Exclusion Zones in Lynn Massachusetts (Created: 2012)
- Revere, MA 5.28.060 exclusion zones (Created: 2006)
- Augusta Georgia HB1059 exclusion zones (Created: 2006)
- HB1059 Exclusion Reaches Beyond 1,000 Feet (Created: 2006)
Events
- June 7, 2024:
Research Director Wendy Sawyer will take part in a panel discussion during the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. The panel, Incarceration as a public health threat, will focus on the ways mass incarceration harms the health of not only incarcerated people but their communities as well.
Communication Director Mike Wessler will also be in attendance for journalists who want to connect.
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