Sex offenders: classification, management, and societal impact
Sexually-related crimes are some of the most difficult and controversial crimes to deal with in the criminal justice system. Megan's Laws, which require registration of known offenders and making their names public, along with residency restrictions are two ways in which the criminal justice system has attempted to protect the public, but there are serious questions about the efficacy of these laws.
Sexual homicide: patterns, offender psychology, and investigative approaches
¶ … sexual homicides and the many things that can be related to them. Using two books, the author of this paper details the meaning of many terms including pyromania, necrophilia and paraphilia.
Megan's law and sex offender registration policies
Megan's law was formed in order to make information accessible to the people concerning registered sex crooks. This law was formed after the murder of Megan Kanka. Various countries decided their own way to access information and how to disperse the information among the public. The information, which is commonly collected, is the crook's name, address, photograph, imprisonment date, and the level of crime. This information can be easily accessible by the public on public websites that can be accessed free of cost. This information can also be available in newspapers, or pamphlets can be distributed which contain this information, or several other ways can be used to disperse the information about sex crooks (Fodor, 2001).