Posts Tagged ‘ sex offenders ’

Sarah Ovaska, Staff Writer RALEIGH – The federal government cannot keep sexual predators locked up beyond their scheduled release dates, according to a ruling by a federal judge. The ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt declared unconstitutional part of a law approved in July 2006 with much fanfare. The 59-page ruling,...
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On July 10, 2007 Prof Winick had two entries in the now-published Encyclopedia of Law and Society. Sex Offenders, in 3 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 1365-1367 (Sage Publications, 2007) (with John Q. La Fond) Therepeutic Jurisprudence, in 3 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 1480-1481 (Sage...
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Edited by Bruce J. Winick & John Q. La Fond Table of Contents Part I. Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Problems and Solutions Chapter 1. The New Generation of Sex Offender Committment Laws: Which States Have Them and How Do They Work? W. Lawrence Fitch & Debra A. Hammen Chapter 2. State Policy Perspectives on...
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If only the editors and authors of htis remarkable work could somehow be empowered to rewrite our sexual offender legislation! This is a rich, provocative, thoughtful, and challenging collection of essays by scholars and clinicians who have carefully considered our current morally bankrupt policies and have found them woefully lacking from all imaginable perspectives....
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September 3, 2006 (late edition) National Desk, pg 19, col 1 Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami, said that while prosecutors in Florida rarely referred noncapital cases to grand juries, they sometimes did so with sensitive cases to be extra-cautious
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On June 19th, Professor Winick delivered the opening lecture at the annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law and co-sponsored by Monash University. It commorates the founder of ANZAPPL, Dr R G Myers, a psychiatrist, who died about 16 years ago.abstract:Sex Offender Laws: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective....
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New York Times, May 21, 2006, Section 14; Column 1; The City Weekly Desk; Pg. 13 (copyright, 2006, New York Times, reprinted here with permission) The New York Legislature is debating whether to approve a sex offender civil commitment law. The law would allow the attorney general to confine sex offenders in secure hospitals...
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Some critics question whether tougher laws are needed–and whether they really work. “By socially ostracizing these people and making it next to impossible for them to find a job or have educational opportunities or otherwise forge necessary social ties, what do we expect is going to happen with them?” asks Bruce Winick, a University...
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Professors Bruce J. Winick and John Q. Lafond will present their paper titled “Sex Offender Reentry Courts: A Cost-Effective Proposal for Managing Sex Offender Risk in the Community,” at the 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health held in Paris, France on July 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2005. Abstract: Legal strategies recently enacted...
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Professor Winick will present his paper entitled Sex Offender Reentry Courts: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Proposal for Managing Sex Offender Risk in the Community At the Western Society of Criminolgy 32nd Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. This paper proposes special sex offender reentry courts to manage the risk that sexual offenders will re-offend. Risk management...
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