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Who Owns the Power On the Streets of Kharkiv and Why Does President Zelensky Turn a Blind Eye to the Crimes of Radicals

“Fog of War” – this truthful, and therefore terrible, saying has been accurate for many years. And it does not lose its relevance, including in Ukraine, where the war has been going on for three months. As in any war, its only hostage and victim of the situation is the civilian population. Looting, lawlessness and […]

The Sex Offenders Register – Public Protection Or Stigmatisation?

On Friday, the tabloid press in the UK had a field day reporting that most convicted sex offenders who had applied to be removed from the official register had been successful. The headline in the on-line “Sun” was “Fury as three quarters of pervs who apply to be taken off the Sex Offenders Register are allowed by police”.
One is entitled to ask fury by whom? The UK register was brought in with the “Sexual Offences Act 2003”. It came about as a result of Megan’s Law in the United States and more specifically the domestic murder of Sarah Payne.

Child Molesters in Alabama Will Now Be Chemically Castrated

(TMU) — Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Monday that will require some sex offenders to undergo chemical castration one month prior to being released from custody, and will also ensure that offenders have to foot the bill for the treatment. Under the law, offenders “convicted of a sex offense involving […]