Proposal for

Notes and Documentation
for

Compiled by Marshall Burns, Ph.D.

To provide background information and documentation to validate the information presented on the ReformSexOffenderLaws.org website

Revised September 22, 2008

Prepared for RSOL for review and discussion.

 

Contents

If you're not sure where to start, check out the Topical Index.

• Pages from the RSOL site, modified with numbered links to notes of supporting information:
  • RSOL Introduction page.
  • RSOL Statement page.

• Notes and Documentation page, where the numbered links on the above pages go to.
• Topical Index, providing an alternative way to go to the notes and articles, arranged by subject matter.

• Background articles with more detailed information on certain subjects:
  • Culture
    • Look Who’s a Sex Offender Now!
    • Criminalizing Child’s Play
  • Law
    • Is there a National Age of Consent in the US?
    • False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Punishment
    • Counting and Over-Counting Sex Offenders
    • Throwing Away the Key

• Additional documentation in support of above articles:
  • A Rare Congressman Against the Walsh Act
  • Age Analysis of Recent US Sex Laws, plus age analyses of the PROTECT Act and Walsh Act
  • Cases of False Accusation
  • Published Counts of the US Registries
  • Count Analysis of the US Registries
  • Relative Severity of Federal Offenses

• Revision History of this proposal
• Work Needed to complete proposal

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