Although federal legislation for the implementation of sex offender registration and notification systems is now a decade old, empirical studies on the efficacy of this policy are relatively nonextant. This article explores the impact of registration legislation on the incidence of forcible rapes. Using monthly count data of rapes aggregated at…

This hearing before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families presents information on victims of rape. The opening statement is given by George Miller, representative from the state of California, and chairman of the committee. A fact sheet about victims of rape and the facts and findings of the committee are presented. The…

This is a report on House bill H.R. 4745, the Sexual Abuse Act of 1986, which would amend title 18 of the United States Code to modernize and reform federal rape statutes. The document opens with the actual text of the amendment. A section on the background of current federal rape law discusses the crime of rape as primarily a state, not federal,…