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Requirements and exemptions for sex-offender registration, particularly in relation to close-in-age exceptions.
There is no single national rule: many U.S. states have “close‑in‑age” or Romeo‑and‑Juliet exceptions, but their age limits and gap allowances vary widely, so whether a 20‑year‑old can legally have se...
Federal criminal charging documents and contemporaneous reporting identify as the year when prosecutors say ’s sex-trafficking of minors began; that allegation appears in the 2019 indictment and was w...
A targeted review of the provided literature finds peer‑reviewed work on politics and sex‑offender policy, public attitudes, and how partisanship shapes responses to allegations, but it does not ident...
The empirical record on whether sex‑offender registries reduce reoffending is mixed: some careful studies and natural experiments find modest deterrent effects or reductions under police-only registra...