Cardozo Law Review
Abstract
Sexual crimes disgust, anger, and frighten Americans in a way that no other human act does. The transgressions of sex offenders leave victims with lifelong scars and violate society's most fundamental notions of right and wrong. Indeed, husbands beating their wives with frying pans, boyfriends punching their girlfriends with their fists, and men striking women with kitchen chairs and baseball bats in every city of our country are atrocities. Although barbaric, these examples of violent and often fatal attacks are not of the same nature as an assault in which a man desecrates a woman by invading the most intimate parts of her body. These are crimes of sexual violence.
Keywords
Criminal Law and Procedure, Sex Offenders, Sex Crimes, Children, Parents and Children, Juveniles, Minors, Domestic Relations, Constitutional Rights, Constitutional Law, Politics (General)
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law
Recommended Citation
Alison V. Greissman,
The Fate of “Megan’s Law” in New York,
18
Cardozo L. Rev.
181
(1996).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol18/iss1/11