The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting story which discusses how Oakland police are now treating child prostitutes as victims, instead of criminals. The article also mentions that the Oakland Police Department has been awarded a $300,000 federal grant through the Adam Walsh Act. The money will "be used for a tracking system to capture information, including DNA, about registered sex offenders."
Sentencing Law and Policy reports on an unpublished Forth Circuit ruling which affirmed a below sentencing guidelines sentence in a child pornography case; US v. Smith, No. 06-4885 (4th Cir. Apr. 23, 2008). You can read the opinion here.
Crime and Consequences and Sentencing Law and Policy both comment on this NY Times article which discusses why "[t]he United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population...[but] almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners." The article also notes that the United States has the distinction of leading the world in producing prisoners, which it says is "a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment."
Crime and Consequences notes that The Federalist Society has posted podcasts on the recent Kennedy v. Louisiana oral argument. The podcast features William Otis, Former Chief of the Appellate Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia.
Hawaii's Criminal Justice Data Center has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to "enhance the state's sex offender registry by making the sex offender information readily available to law enforcement agencies." The funding supports Hawaii's implementation of the federal Adam Walsh Act.
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