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Friday Schedule
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Friday, January 3, 2003
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9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Section on Law and Mental Disability
- George J. Alexander, Santa Clara University, Chair
- John Kip Cornwell, Seton Hall University, Program Chair
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McKinley
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Second Generation Issues
Moderator:
John Kip Cornwell, Seton Hall University
Speakers: - Eric S. Janus, William Mitchell College of Law
- John Q. LaFond, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Stephen R. McAllister, University of Kansas
- Anita Schlank, Clinical Director, Minnesota Sex Offender Program, Duluth, Minnesota
- Bruce J. Winick, University of Miami
This session will focus on the release of sex offenders from civil commitment, with particular focus on risk management. Professor LaFond will begin by advocating a risk-management approach to sex offender release necessitated, he will argue, by a variety of factors that make predictions of dangerousness for sex offenders problematic. Professor Janus will follow, addressing how risk assessment is actually conducted for sex offenders, with emphasis on actuarial risk assessment and how it should be treated in the forensic setting. Next, Professor Winick will speak on the creation of Sex Offender Reentry Courts, explaining how they would actually manage the risk, while also providing therapeutic jurisprudential incentives for sex offenders to change.
Following the break, Dr. Schlank, the Clinical Director of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, will discuss the dynamic factors used to assess treatment progress for sex offenders. She will also address the methods used in her program to determine when progress is sufficient to warrant a recommendation for community release. Professor McAllister will conclude the program by discussing the constitutional and policy issues surrounding the release of sex offenders into the community, commenting on his experience in Kansas as well as related issues such as community notification.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion
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