Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime and Victims Statistics  
   Information, statistics, and publications about criminal victimization in the United States and related data collections.
   http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm

Hidden Sexual Victimization - An International Study  
   Hidden sexual victimization is the term referring to those sexual victimizations which are not reported to the police and which are therefore usually hidden from our view.
   http://www.fh-niederrhein.de/fb06/victimology/I.htm

Robert Hare, PhD - Study of Psychopaths  
   Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), with demonstrated reliability and validity, is rapidly being adopted worldwide as the standard instrument for researchers and clinicians.
   http://www.hare.org/

Female Sexual Abusers: A Theory of Loss  
   Awareness about female sexual abuse perpetrators has increased in recent years. The best estimates put female perpetrators of sexual abuse at about 20% for male children and 5% for female children.
   http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume2/j2_4_1.htm

Psychopathy Checklist (PCL/PCL-R)  
   A review and meta-analysis of the psychopathy checklist and psychopathy checklist-revised: predictive validity of dangerousness.
   http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/clipsy/hdb/Volume_03/Issue_03/030203.sgm.abs.html

Sexual Offence Recidivism: Prediction versus Understanding  
   This paper identifies from the literature risk factors for reoffending in convicted sex offenders.
   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5761/RECIDIVI.htm

Psychopathic Personality Commitment Law  
   Provides for indefinite civil commitment of dangerous sex offenders to the Department of Human Services for treatment.
   http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/1994/psycho.htm

Crown Files Research Project: A Study of Dangerous Offenders  
   A research project undertaken to provide empirical data that would assist in the application of the dangerous offender provisions.
   http://www.sgc.gc.ca/epub/corr/e199601/e199601.htm

Age of Consent - Sexual Consent Ages From Around The World  
   The most definitive source on age of consent (sexual consent/coming of age laws) and sex laws in the United States, Canada and the world.
   http://www.ageofconsent.com/

Criminal Justice Profile  
   The annual Criminal Justice Profile series supplements and expands on the data provided in the Law Enforcement Information Center (LEIC) "Crime and Delinquency in California."
   http://www.pls.lib.ca.us/healthysmc/12/contents.html

Sex Offender Accountability Program  
   The Sex Offender Accountability Program (SOAP) is a specialized caseload devoted to using the most progressive and effective supervision tools to monitor sexual abusers' compliance with conditions of community supervision.
   http://www.koyote.com/users/hunt/

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation  
   Scientific research does not provide any evidence that gay men or lesbians are any more likely than heterosexuals to molest children.
   http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

Bibliography on Pornography, Protection of Minors and Sex Crimes  
   Sexual research database of the Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research. (NISSO)
   http://www.scireview.de/bib1-e.html

Child Sex Abuse: Internet Crimes  
   Brief overview of pedophiles on the Web.
   http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/pedoweb.htm

Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse -- Later Criminal Consequences  
   Previous research established evidence for a cycle of violence: people who were abused and neglected in childhood are more likely than those who were not to become involved in criminal behavior, including violent crime, later in life.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/abuse.txt

Sex Crimes, Punishment, and Therapy  
   Is chemical castration an acceptable punishment for male sex offenders?
   http://www.csun.edu/~psy453/crimes_y.htm

Dangerousness: Predicting Recidivism in Violent Sex Offenders  
   When a violent sex offender has been tried and convicted of his crime(s), he may be proffered to a mental health facility of some variable nature for assessment and treatment.
   http://www.corpus-delicti.com/danger.html

Sexual Assault and Vulnerable Populations  
   Sexual Assault Surviellance System, Vol. 1, Issue 2, April 1998. Requires adobe acrobat to view report.
   http://vip.msu.edu/sass/report/vulnerable.pdf

Crimes Against Children: The Nature and Threat of Sexual Predators on the Internet  
   Hearing before the subcommittee on crime of the committee on the judiciary, House of Representatives.
   http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju58269.000/hju58269_0.HTM

Reducing Deviant Arousal Using Vicarious Sensitization  
   A conditioning method to reduce deviant arousal in adolescent sex offenders.
   http://www.northwestmedia.com/vs/report.html

How To Survive in Prison as an Innocent Man Convicted of a Sex Crime  
   This article includes some strong views that may be surprising and challenging. It is believed there are many innocent men and women in prison who were wrongly convicted of sex offenses.
   http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume9/j9_3_6.htm

Sex Offender Community Notification  
   Registration legislation is intended to deter offenders from committing new offenses and create a registry to assist law enforcement investigations.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/162364.txt

Juvenile Justice Bulletin- Offenders in Juvenile Court, 1994  
   This Bulletin, and the larger report on which it is based, present important information about the youth seen in the Nation's juvenile courts.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/offender.txt

Carpenter's Forensic Science Resources  
   Categorized collection of links.
   http://www.tncrimlaw.com/forensic/

Managing Adult Sex Offenders in the Community  
   Results of a national telephone survey identifying how probation and parole agencies managed adult sex offenders.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/sexoff.txt

The Sex Offender: Corrections, Treatment, and Legal Practice  
   These two volumes together give a complete and thorough overview of the relevant scientific and professional literature on dealing with those who commit sexual offenses. The books are organized in the manner of legal reference volumes.
   http://ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume9/j9_1_br20.htm

John Howard Society of Alberta - Sex Offender Recidivism  
   Sex offenders are of grave concern to the public due to the nature of sexual offending. This information sheet is intended to provide a quick overview of the research on this topic.
   http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/docs/sxoffend/page1.htm

Economics of Implementing Intensive In-prison Sex-offender Treatment Programs  
   Since the mid-1980s economic evaluation has become an essential appraisal tool of health and related social services.
   http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi134.html

Mixing of Sex Offenders in Custodial Drug Treatment and Therapeutic Community Units  
   As more and more treatment becomes available, a particular problem was noted: the referral into drug treatment of individuals with sex offenses in their criminal files along with a substance abuse problem.
   http://www.attc.ucsd.edu/cj/symposia/011999.htm

Campus Crime and Victimization  
   Crime on college and university campuses first captured media attention in the mid-1980s and brought the issue into public view.
   http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa99/chap21-4.htm

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report  
   A comprehensive source of information about juvenile crime, violence, and victimization.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/nationalreport99/toc.html

Community Protection Research Project: WSIPP  
   In 1990, the Washington State Legislature passed one of the country's most comprehensive reforms addressing community protection from sex offenders.
   http://www.wa.gov/wsipp/projects/comprot.html

1996 National Victim Assistance Academy  
   Federal legislation that requires colleges to compile and publish annual campus security reports.
   http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa/ch21-8cc.htm

For Those Who Are Not Repeat Sex Offenders or Sexual Predators, Seeking to Be Castrated  
   As a proven-effective, alternative and currently the law in California, Florida, Montana, Texas and Georgia, and under current consideration by an ever-increasing number of American states.
   http://hometown.aol.com/USCCCN/castration.index.html

Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography  
   A comprehensive bibliograhy of scholarly research and literature relating to juvenile sex offenders.
   http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/juvsexoff/sexbibtopic.html

Still No Takers Under Texas Castration Law  
   Texas become the first state in the U.S. to specifically approve surgical castration for offenders convicted of certain sex crimes.
   http://www2.utmb.edu/pleich/updates.htm

Assessing Violent Recidivism in Sexual Offenders  
   Forensic and clinical psychologists have long been asked to make predictions about violence, despite the fact that, in the past, such predictions have been notoriously inaccurate.
   http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume10/j10_6.htm

Abusive Behaviors Alleged in Two Samples of Likely False Allegations  
   A preliminary descriptive study to examine the types of abusive behaviors described when sexual abuse allegations are likely false.
   http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_3.htm

Research on Child Molestation: Child Molesters Rarely Serve `Serious Time'  
   An electronic analysis of the outcomes for those charged with child molestation from 1985-1993 revealed that 70 percent of those found guilty did not serve jail time.
   http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/cheit.html

Sexual Villainy: A Sex Offender Profile  
   This research attempted to draw a general profile of the NRV sex offender by extracting information found in the forensic files, with hope that a portrayal of the average offender would make the community aware of the hidden sexual deviancy.
   http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/6027/research.htm

Sex Offender Programming  
   For clinicians and professionals working with sexual offenders, it comes as no surprise that many offenders deny their offences.
   http://198.103.98.138/text/prgrm/correctional/sexoff_e.shtml

1996 Victims' Rights Sourcebook: A Compilation and Comparison of Victims' Rights Laws  
   PDF files covering key rights of crime victims provided for under U.S. and state laws.
   http://www.ncvc.org/resources/reports/sourcebook/