Download This PaperSome Reflections on the Constitutionality of Sex Offender Commitment Laws
19 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2012
Date Written: April 22, 2002
Abstract
This essay reflects upon the author’s experience in litigating and writing about major constitutional cases involving sex offender civil commitment programs, such as Kansas v. Hendricks and Kansas v. Crane, both of which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The article addresses several questions about such programs, and also discusses the propriety and role of “substantive due process” constitutional analysis in this context.
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McAllister, Stephen R., Some Reflections on the Constitutionality of Sex Offender Commitment Laws (April 22, 2002). Kansas Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1011, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2044083
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