The latest, Section 58 of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998), enables courts to order the compulsory supervision of sex offenders for up to ten years after release from prison.

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The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.

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On Friday, India's cabinet approved most of the recommendations of a commission set up to review sex crime laws after the case came to light.

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The Met said the force was not able to discuss specific actions relating to the investigations conducted in 1995, 2006 and 2008, but that Sapphire, its sex crime unit, moved under the command of the Specialist Crime Directorate in September 2009.

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Pause in the library to check out the books the average prisoner read at a rate of 75 to 100 per year - though none of the books could have references to crime, violence or sex.

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The absence of regular sex had to be endured and it did not lead to any crime or sex based social problems.

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According to the largest study of released prisoners, conducted by the Bureau of Justice, the re-arrest rate for sex offenders is lower than that for perpetrators of any violent crime except murder.

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