As Doug Berman notes, the Federal Sentencing Reporter issue dedicated to sex offender issues is out. You can find the details here. I was honored to be one of the contributors and as I noted I have also made my......

A Wisconsin mayor has allegedly committed some very bad crimes from possession of child pornography to attempted sexual assault of a child. From a local news account:Mayor Gary Becker has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to attempted sexual......

Sentencing Law & Policy has three posts about three recent sex crimes sentences. In Another notable child porn sentencing decision, Berman points to a notable Judge Pratt opinion in a child pornography case. In An honest (and honorable?) gendered sentencing......

I'm skeptical, but that's what a recent survey indicates. From Ars Technica:What good would technology be if people weren't constantly using it to send naked pictures of themselves to each other? I would know, too—since the age of 12, my......

While filming pornography might seem different than prostitution, the difference between the two can be illusory when money changes hands. Eugene Volokh explains in analyzing a recent New Hampshire case:People sometimes ask -- if it's a crime to pay someone......

Almost two years ago, I posted about the case of Julie Amero, the school teacher who had some pornography pop-up on her computer during class. TChris at TalkLeft recently posted about the resolution of the case:You may remember the case......

Some have said that lesson of the Martha Stewart prosecution was: It's the coverup, not the crime. Maybe the lesson of Kozinski's ethics investigation is: It's the security breach, not the porn. What started out as a sortid tale of......

Appellate Law & Practice has a post with a title ("Fifteen Year Mandatory Minimum for Guy in Wheelchair Trying to Produce Child Pr0n Okay") that pretty much encapsulates what a First Circuit opinion was about. This was S. Cotus's summary......

Berman continues his coverage of some of the oddities of child pornography sentencing. This time, he refers to the Sixth Circuit's reasonableness review in U.S. v. Blackie:The district court’s failure to comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c)(2)......

The rule seems to be no porn for prisoners, but yes porn for freed sex offenders. First, the Florida Supreme Court held that, applying the rule of lenity, a sex offender could not be convicted of violating probation conditions related......