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Ewing an attorney a psychologist and a law professor reaches some astonishing conclusions about sex offense law ewing tackles four areas of sex offense law civil commitment sex offender registration sora sorna etc possession of child pornography and internet sex offenders and focuses each through the lenses of law psychology and . Justice perverted sex offense law psychology and public policy charles patrick ewing poses current questions about the logic behind our sex offense laws with regards to both criminal justice and psychology empirically evaluates the effectiveness of our laws in a new thought provoking way. By charles patrick ewing new york oxford university press 2011 238 pp 4650 charles patrick ewing a psychologist attorney and law school distinguished service professor tackles four controversial sex offender public policy topics in his latest book civil commitment of sex offenders. Over the past quarter century congress state legislatures and the courts have radically reshaped americas laws dealing with sex offenders in an effort to reduce the prevalence of sex offenses most convicted sex offenders must now register with the authorities who then make information about them available to the public.