Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Before It Begins
Moore Center Headlines
September 2019
September 2018
August 2018
June 2018
- Daily Beast: Columbia University student fought against sexual violence—until he was charged with child sex crimes
- HealthDay: Tragedy of child sexual abuse takes financial toll, too
- Psychology Today: Crisis on the southern border: We're putting kids in danger
May 2018
- Psychology Today: Victims of sexual abuse face a lifetime of costly problems
- Press Release: One year's losses for child sexual abuse in U.S. top $9 billion, new study suggests
- Sports Illustrated: Prospect and pariah
April 2018
March 2018
- Psychology Today: Will reporting laws in Michigan prevent child sexual abuse?
- Press Release: Child sexual abuse in U.S. costs up to $1.5 million per child death
- Johns Hopkins Magazine: When the abuser is a child, too
January 2018
December 2017
October 2017
- Post-Crescent: Are Halloween restrictions on sex offenders useful or useless?
- QCOnline: Beware holiday that scares adults
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
- Psychology Today: Should children register as sex offenders?
- CBS News: Childhood sex abuse could accelerate puberty in girls, study finds
March 2017
- 7News: Issues in dealing with children who abuse
- Sky News: Not all child abusers are monsters: experts
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
July 2016
- New York Times: Punishment that Doesn't Fit the Crime
- The Hill: Marking Kids for Life on Sex Offender Registries
June 2016
May 2016
- Pacific Standard: What's the Real Rate of Sex Crime Recidivism?
- Slate: What's Wrong with the Brock Turner Sentence?
- WYPR's Midday with Sheilah Kast: Reforming the Sex Offender Registry
- Maryland Reporter: State Roundup - May 12, 2016
March 2016
- The New Yorker: The List
- Pacific Standard: Are We Properly Dealing with Young Sex Offenders?
- Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins: To Serve and Prevent
January 2016
November 2015
- Stateline: States Slowly Scale Back Juvenile Sex Offender Registries
- Reuters: Tide Turns Against U.S. Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders
- Psychology Today: Sympathy for the Deviant
October 2015
September 2015
- Baltimore Sun: Study of Baltimore County: Fewer Sex Offenses Reported in Neighborhoods with More Registered Sex Offenders
- Upworthy: A Protective Treatment Program for Pedophiles in Germany is Raising Some Eyebrows
- Fox 45 Baltimore: Ryan T. Shields is interviewed regarding a juvenile charged with assault
August 2015
- Baltimore Business Journal: People on the Move - Stephen Moore, MD, MPH, Appointed to JHSPH Health Advisory Board
- Washington Post: The Jared Fogel Case: Why We Understand So Little About Child Sexual Abuse
July 2015
June 2015
- Newsweek: The Hunt for Child Sex Abusers is Happening in the Wrong Places
- Freakonomics Radio: Making Sex Offenders Pay - and Pay and Pay and Pay
- Secrets and Realities of US Child Abuse - NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook
May 2015
- 10 Firsts in 10 Decades - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Featured in the Observador (Portuguese newspaper) about sex offender registries in Portugal
April 2015
February 2015
December 2014
- Pennsylvania's Juvenile Sex Offender Registry is Unconstitutional, State Supreme Court Rules
- This Woman is Trying to Stop Sex Offenders by Helping Them
- Studies, Experts Question Effect of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries
November 2014
October 2014
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