In the weekend Guardian there was an extract from a new book by a woman who married a killer that went on to commit further crimes. It’s one we intend to review depending on its UK release date. For now, the extract is here on the site.
With the growth of Smartphone ownership set to keep on rising as prices keep falling, Sexting has reached the point where now British Teens are getting caught up in the construction of indecent image laws. The free newspaper Metro reported one such case in its last issue before the Easter break and you can read…
I found myself reading this interview with Dr. Mary Koss recently, and while I’m not 100% sure about the prospect of “Restorative Justice”, as she refers to it, I think that often, when we think about child sexual abuse, we fall into the same misconceptions about the legal system that she refers to when talking more broadly about sexual assault.
Namely, that the legal system is not really designed to assist with the healing of a victim.
Caspar Walsh has used his semi-regular colunmn with the Guardian newspaper to inform us that since his book was published, his writing workshops in prison have now extended to sex offenders, sharing some of his own experience along the way. His view is interesting, though The Guardian has done the disservice of not allowing comments…
Overnight for UK readers, Jerry Sandusky’s sentence was decided by a Pennsylvania court at 30 to 60 years for the abuse of 10 boys abused either through Penn State University or the charity where he worked to help troubled children. NBC has the story here with the sentencing order as a PDF and further reaction to the…
Last winter the Daily Mail formally reported a 40 year old general story about the unwitting association by paid membership of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) now known as Liberty in the 1970s. Three people who went on to become Labour MPs, governing for 13 years, were working there and along with 999…
I came across this review on the Scene website, and I wanted to share it with you because one of the things we know is that LGBTQ+ folks are more likely to deal with mental health issues, and also suffer a higher rate of suicide. So while the book is about being Bi, and not directly about mental health, during Suicide Prevention Week I think it’s important to share resources for groups who often struggle with seeing their own stories told. Based on the review, I think this book seems like exactly that type of thing, a voice of an underserved group.
