Consent, Compulsion and Sexual Offenders: The Compulsory Treatment of Sex Offenders - But, Not All, It Appears

10/1/14

Funding success for Northumbria Law School

Northumbria Law School wins prestigious seminar funding

"Professor Chris Ashford and senior lecturer, Nicola Wake have been awarded funding from the Modern Law Review to run a seminar on ‘Consent, Compulsion and Sexual Offenders: The Compulsory Treatment of Sex Offenders’ to be held in March 2014.

This is only the second time this award has gone to a new university, the first time also being Northumbria in 2010 for a seminar on Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings.

This event will be run jointly by the School’s Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies and the Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Group. It aims to bring a new dimension to the approach of legal academics and legal practitioners to the “treatment” of sex offenders. It will bring together academics and practitioners for the first time to enable an inter-disciplinary dialogue on this topical area of criminal law and to develop a sustainable international research network.

The Gender, Sexuality and Law Research group was launched in 2013. It draws together established, early career academics and postgraduate students from a range of disciplines across the University aligned with the core theme of gender, sexuality and law. The group acts a point of focus for this growing community of scholars, and organizes a seminar series together with a range of activities to support and develop a community of academic inquiry. In the first six months of operation, the group has successfully attracted funding to explore LGBTQ law student identities, LGBTQ ‘communities’ within law schools (with Bradford University), and to explore conceptions of privacy in the context of mobile ‘dating’ Apps such as the popular Grindr and Scruff products (with Newcastle University).

For more info on the seminar or the work of the Gender, Sexuality and the Law Research Group, contact Chris Ashford"

http://research.northumbria.ac.uk/support/2014/01/10/funding-success-for-northumbria-law-school/ 

Professor Chris Ashford; Professor of Law and Society 

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/law/staff/chrisashford 

Nicola Wake

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/law/staff/nicolawake

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Had some great funding news earlier this week: http://t.co/M8H5F9Hwrw
— Prof Chris Ashford (@lawandsexuality) January 11, 2014

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SLSA 2014

http://lawandsexuality.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/call-for-papers-slsa-2014-gender-sexuality-and-law/

Call for Papers: SLSA 2014, Gender, Sexuality and Law http://t.co/4qcQI7lWBY
— Prof Chris Ashford (@lawandsexuality) January 14, 2014

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“Long-Range Rape”

Sat, Nov 9, 2013, 01:00: First published: Sat, Nov 9, 2013, 01:00

Child pornography: collateral damage

"Three Irish men were identified this week by an international sting operation as having tried to access online child pornography. What fate awaits perpetrators and their families?

Catastrophic consequences: 90 per cent of the people who carry out online child abuse are loving fathers, uncles, brothers and sons."

" Whichever way they react, “Families are blown apart by this. It creates absolute havoc. People take sides. Families react in exactly the same way as they do when they discover that their child has been sexually abused or that their husband, father or son is a perpetrator of child sex abuse,” says Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, the chief executive of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

John’s partner reacted with anger and rejection and got a court order preventing him seeing his children unsupervised. His employer put him on sick leave, then encouraged him to take voluntary redundancy. “People didn’t want to know me,” he says.

As gardaí swept through the house that morning, confiscating every device that might hold information, including the children’s toys and games, he felt utter despair. He didn’t know who had tipped them off, but he recalled his partner leaving his laptop open on the kitchen table, with a “child pornography” image on it – perhaps her way of saying she knew. The Garda found 2,000 images of “child pornography” on the device. John did not see his children again for months. When he eventually did, access was supervised.

John says he has never sexually abused a child in “real life”, and never would."

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/child-pornography-collateral-damage-1.1588575#.Un5Q23_oR-o.twitter

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"I was addicted to child porn" http://t.co/A3ca8fr3V1 via @IrishTimes
— Kate Holmquist (@kateholmquist) November 9, 2013

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Sat, Nov 9, 2013, 01:00

New treatment for sex offenders reduces repeat crimes by 70%

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/new-treatment-for-sex-offenders-reduces-repeat-crimes-by-70-1.1589114