Are the DNA Fingerprinting Laws Fair?
Nearly everyone on both sides of the legal debate on DNA laws agrees that the current procedure for testing new technologies – a string of interminable pretrial admissibility hearings – is not the way to go. To avoid these expensive courtroom fights in the future, there have been calls for the establishment of an [...]
[Continue reading]Defending Child Pornography Charges
This article is intended to provide information about child pornography, the criminal charges that can be brought, and details of the different punishments and potential defenses. It has also been designed to give an overview for readers who are interested in the subject. It is not intended as a substitute for qualified legal counsel. [...]
[Continue reading]Child Molestation Laws
For the purposes of this article on child molestation laws, offenses ranging from statutory rape and sexual assault to matters of incest, indecent exposure, and child pornography are excluded.
According to U.S. Department Justice, child molestation is a broadly defined term which includes: contacts or interactions including inappropriate physical contact between a child and an adult [...]
Internet Sex Crimes
Advances in modern technology have created a new type of crime known as cybercrime which uses electronic communications such as the internet to facilitate criminal activity. The crimes themselves are not new, what is new is the ability to sit anonymously behind a monitor to engage in these acts. One of the most prolific categories [...]
[Continue reading]Sex with a Minor
Of all criminal sex charges, the most legally severe and notorious in public opinion are when the charges involve sex with a minor. If an adult engages in sex with a minor, be it consensual, with a stranger or someone known to the minor, it is a very serious problem for the many reasons. Mainly [...]
[Continue reading]DNA Crime: is the use of DNA fingerprinting fair?
When DNA evidence points toward guilt, the science involved is complicated. While patterns unique to each individual emerge over long stretches of DNA, existing testing methods only allow scientists to look at parts of the genetic material. When segments of DNA from two sources are similar, investigators try to find enough matching areas to argue, [...]
[Continue reading]Solicitation: More Than Just Prostitution
Criminal solicitation commonly involves crimes such as prostitution although it is used in regard to other criminal activity such as drug dealing, bribery and even murder. The crime of solicitation is completed if one person intentionally entices, advises, incites or encourages another to commit a crime, in this case for payment for sexual services. The [...]
[Continue reading]Sexual Assault Charges
According to the US Department of Justice, there were 152,680 completed and attempted sexual assaults per year between 1992 and 2000 for females aged 12 or older. Approximately one in six American women will be a victim of a sexual assault in her lifetime. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a [...]
[Continue reading]Rape Law
According to the FBI, in 2007 one person out of every thousand people in the United States aged 12 or older was a victim of rape. That works out to about 78 rapes in an hour. As large as that number sounds it doesn’t provide an accurately picture because it is estimated that only 1 [...]
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