Category: For Your Information
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Does Stalking Count as a Sex Crime in Michigan?
When you think of a “stalker“, what comes to mind? Someone who hides in the bushes outside your home at night, watching you move from lighted room to lighted room through the windows? Or maybe it’s someone who hovers around the periphery of your life, showing up at the same restaurants and grocery stores and…
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Cyber Flashing: Is it Digital Sexual Harassment?
More than half of millennial women today have received a picture of a naked man, sent to their phones via text or email. In fact, according to YouGov Omnibus, a total of 53% of millennial women have been the recipients of photos of nude men, in many cases just pictures of their genitalia. A total…
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Chemical Castration in The United States
Chemical castration is often seen as an easier alternative to life imprisonment or the death penalty because it allows the release of sex offenders while reducing or eliminating the chance that they reoffend. As we pointed out in the previous article, the state of Alabama just legalized mandatory chemical castration for all sex offenders convicted…
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Alabama Has Approved Chemical Castration For Sex Offenders!
The issue of how to deal with sex offenders has been a controversial one for a long time now. Each state addresses the issue differently, and Michigan’s approach (specifically the inhumane restrictions of our sex offender registry) has drawn a great deal of ire over the years. But the state of Alabama has recently made…
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How Teens Are Affected by Sex Crime Laws in Michigan (Pt 1)
Usually when you hear the words “teen” and “sex crime” you assume that the teen must be the victim of a sex crime. That certainly seems like a reasonable assumption, and it happens often enough here in Michigan. But there are lots of instances where teens are actually involved in sex crimes, either as the…
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When Celebrity Meets Sex Scandal: The R Kelly Debacle
Can you imagine what it would be like to have your face on the news because someone accused you of sexually molesting a child? Or what it would be like to have your friends and family members turn against you because allegations of sexual assault were made against you? It would be horrendous, right? The…
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Can Michigan Cops Make me Take a Polygraph Test During a Sex Crime Investigation?
You’ve probably seen a lie detector test in a movie at some point. Some serious man in a suit asking a series of strange questions – many of them obvious – to some nervous wreck hooked up to a machine that’s quietly spitting out a ream of paper covered in squiggles. Squiggles that are…
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A Lansing-based Facebook Group Aims to “Out” Online Pedophiles
If you follow our blogs, then you’ve probably read the article we published a while back about the Michigan-based vigilante who was attempting to lure sexual predators online and then, when he’d gathered enough implicating evidence, turn his research over to the police. Well, Michigan certainly seems to be a home-base for this sort…
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Revenge Porn in Michigan: Facts You Need to Know (Part 2)
Welcome back to our discussion about revenge porn and how the law in Michigan deals with this particular issue. In our previous article we talked about what revenge porn is and what the current penalties are for people convicted of this crime. We also talked about some of the ways in which victims have…
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What To Do If You’ve Been Falsely Accused of Molestation (Part 2)
In the first segment of this two-piece article we talked about the three most important things you can possibly do when confronted with false allegations of child molestation, or charges that stem from false allegations. Let’s recap: 1. Don’t talk to anyone in authority, 2. Don’t talk to your friends and family, and 3.…