8th Circuit approves broad sex offender exclusion statute

Mike at Crime & Federalism is already blogging up a storm about the Eighth Circuit’s decision today in Doe v. Miller, No. 04-1568 (8th Cir. Apr. 29, 2005) (available here), which upheld against numerous constitutional challenges Iowa’s legislation which “prohibits a person convicted of certain sex offenses involving minors from residing within 2000 feet of a school or a registered child care facility.”  This AP report about the case and Mike’s first two powerful posts here and here provide plenty of food for thought even before I have had a chance to read the full opinion.

This weekend, after I get a chance to read the 8th Circuit opinion, I hope to do a post on what seems to be an ever-growing “sex offender panic.”   In the meantime, I have linked below some notable prior posts about sex offender sentencing:

• Perspectives on sex offender sentencing and treatment
• 25 years too long for failure to register
• The intersection of sex offenses and juvenile offenders
• The power of the headline-making crime
• Intriguing report about sex offenders
• Sex offender sentencing