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Abstract: The sex offender register for purposes of monitoring and supervising those living in the community who have been convicted of sexual offences is a policy developed in the USA and followed by only a few European countries – the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Jersey and France; Australia, Canada and a few other countries have adopted registers. The UK register started in 1997 and has recently been the subject of legal challenge concerning its 'lifetime' registration provisions. The UK Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that the current law is not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights because it has no right of appeal against registration for those who are assessed as no longer at risk of reoffending. This article considers the mechanisms for deregistering sex offenders that have now been proposed.

Abstract: The UK Home Office has announced (December 2009) a new policy to publicise the criminal court judgments on individual offenders to the local communities in which those offenders live. The Home Office believes that this is public information obtained fairly from the public forum of the criminal court and that such publicising is merely boosting the job previously carried out by local reporters and newspapers covering the local criminal court. The initiative follows the Casey (2008) report that sought to find ways to reassure the general public on matters of confidence in the criminal justice system. This article considers how this initiative might work in practice based on earlier experiences of making offenders more visible to the communities from which they come.

Abstract: This paper considers what legal and practice arrangements exist in England and Wales to monitor sex offenders following release from prison and comments on the limitations and implications of such 'tracking' in the community. Recent developments in the USA are also reviewed. The authors argue that 'tracking' should be seen in the wider context of the political economy of risk, which emphasises both the proactive 'management' of knowledge about offenders and the production of compensatory measures.

SUMMARY. We now have over 16 years experience of child protection arrangements that include the attendance of police officers at child protection conferences. This article attempts to review that experience and critically assess the police role at conferences in the light of the Department of Health's Working Together, Particular attention is paid to the nature of information made available by the police to child protection conferences.

SUMMARY. Amongst the many new statutory Regulations introduced with the Children Act 1989 are the "Disqualification for Caring for Children Regulations 1991'. The Regulations outline, for the first time, exactly which previous criminal convictions may lead to a person being disqualified as a childminder, day care worker or private foster parent. The paper describes the background and implications of the Regulations and suggests some possible implications.

Through the lens of economic geography: cocaine in space and place -- Globalization and the competitive strategies of criminal enterprises -- From coca to cocaine -- Colombian competitive advantage in cocaine -- Cocaine distribution and Mexico's growing competitive advantage -- Marketing cocaine in the United States -- Policy implications -- Conclusions: Through a glass, darkly

The so-called Nordic model to respond to prostitution has been considered in legislative debates across Europe and internationally, and hailed by some as best practice to tackle sex trafficking and is believed to support gender equality. Yet, when we interrogate the utilisation of the Nordic countries laws by law enforcers, it is not being implemented as per the law. We argue that 'all that is occurring is the transfer of rhetoric and ideology' in these countries ((Stone Politics, 19 (1): 51–59, 1999) at 56). In this article, we expose the cracks in the so-called Nordic model, thereby discrediting the 'persuasive' nature of a unified Nordic approach to prostitution. We draw on policy transfer and comparative law literature to illuminate the problems and challenges of naïve adoption of this so-called model, arguing that this can lead to uninformed, inappropriate and incomplete transfer of the Nordic model, which then becomes a policy irritant, further exacerbating the very problems it seeks to address.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The management and supervision of sex offenders in the community -- chapter 3 Circles of Support and Accountability -- chapter 4 From 'containment' to the 'good life' -- chapter 5 The Core Members -- chapter 6 The volunteers -- chapter 7 The professionals -- chapter 8 Communication, collaboration and information exchange -- chapter 9 Conclusions -- chapter Annex -- Methodology.