Drawing on content analysis of 323 Los Angeles Times articles published between 1990
and 2015, this article examines how news reports represent sexual predator victims and …

Twenty-one states and the federal government have civil commitment schemes that provide
for the further confinement of sex offenders after they have completed their prison sentences …

At the end of his thirty-seven-month prison sentence for possessing child pornography,
Graydon Earl Comstock, Jr. expected to be released back into society. However, the federal …

Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government allow for the
postincarceration, indeterminate civil commitment of sexual violent predators (SVPs). Yet …

Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current
approaches to “dangerousness” and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of …

Examining the treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system,
this book offers new perspectives that are crucial to an understanding of the ways in which …

Only" dangerous" individuals may be indefinitely detained. Is a one percent chance of a
future crime clear and convincing evidence of dangerousness? For sex offenders, fear and …

Preventive detention to protect public safety is an old idea, which has recently expanded in
scope.'Two well-established justifications for civil confinement are mental illness and …

Background In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Washington and Minnesota began a national
trend when they became the first states to enact statutes to allow civil commitment of sex …

Currently over five thousand individuals are indefinitely confined in the United States with
little hope of release. The 1990s brought a wave of sex offender policy reform, creating …