MAY 2022

• Chronicle of Higher Education: An Unacceptable Idea
• NBC News: They're banned from Olympic Sports. Why are they coaching children?

April 2022

• HUB: Incarcerating child sexual abusers topped $5.4 billion in 2021 according to study
• Maine Public Radio: Child pornography cases are rising in Maine and nationally, but so is detection
• Psychology Today: Child Sex Abuse: We Need Prevention, Not Just Punishment

March 2022

• Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine: Stopping Child Sexual Abuse Requires a Shift in Funding Priorities
• The Crime Report: U.S. Spends $5.4B Yearly on Incarcerating Adults for Sex Crimes Against Children
• The Hill: We're Still Not Spending Enough to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

February 2022

• Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine: The Harms of Placing Kids on Sex Offender Registries
• Psychology Today: Reframing Child Sex Abuse as a Preventable Public Health Issue
• Slate: Nine Year Olds Are Being Forced to Register as Sex Offenders. That Might Finally Change

December 2021

• Psychology Today: Professor's Research Sparks Firestorm at Virginia College
• The Washington Post Opinion: A Virginia college professor set off a firestorm about pedophilia

November 2021

• Alliance Magazine: Putting A Stop To Child Sexual Abuse Before It Occurs
• U.S. News: Professor Who Wrote About Adults Attracted to Minors Resigns
• The Washington Post Opinion: Overreach at Old Dominion

March 2021

• The Globe and Mail: Initiative targets potential abusers who have thoughts or urges to sexually abuse children 
• Hub: Johns Hopkins Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse receives $10.3 million grant for global prevention program

February 2021

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: "Spotlight Series" on advocacy and policy efforts to prevent child sexual abuse

January 2021

• Psychology Today: New Principles to Reduce Child Sexual Abuse Risk 

June 2020

• Associated Press: Experts see no proof of child-abuse surge amid pandemic 

May 2020

• Psychology Today: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse during Covid-19
• Public Health On Call podcast: Preventing child sexual abuse in the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Hub: Pandemic poses key challenges for preventing child sexual abuse: Center releases resources pages, online course
• Press Release: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse During Covid-19: Moore Center launches family resource pages, online course for people concerned about their own sexual feelings toward children

April 2020 

• Baltimore Sun: Reports of child abuse have fallen in Maryland since coronavirus shutdown, but experts say harm may be hidden. 

February 2020

• PsychologyToday: Life without violence, not a reality for many children 

January 2020

• Bloomberg Businessweek: Catholic Church Shields $2 Billion in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts 

December 2019

• Statement: CDC Awarded Congressional Appropriations of $1M in New Funding for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Research
• Parents Should Take Advantage of School Break to Check-In With Their Children 

November 2019

• Psychology Today: Child sexual abuse perpetration can be prevented 

September 2019

• The Hill: We spend billions after child sexual abuse happens and nothing to prevent it

September 2018

• NPR's All Things Considered: Clergy sex abuse survivors face lifelong financial burdens

August 2018

• 90.5 WESA Pittsburgh (NPR): Pittsburgh diocese may have improved sex abuse prevention efforts, more work needs to be done

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

• Baltimore Sun: Women from "The Keepers" discuss experience at Baltimore conference on child sexual abuse prevention

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

• Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: Young sex offenders shouldn't have to register; It's ineffective and hurts everyone around them

December 2017

• Press Release: Children on sex offender registries at greater risk for suicide attempts, study suggests

October 2017

• Post-Crescent: Are Halloween restrictions on sex offenders useful or useless?
• QCOnline: Beware holiday that scares adults

July 2017

• Altamont Enterprise: Mother petitions for playground safety

June 2017

• Psychology Today: Will more kids be branded sex offenders for life?

May 2017

• Post and Courier: Should minors convicted of certain sex crimes be required to register as offenders for life? S.C. supreme court rules yes as attorneys, researchers cast doubts

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

• The Huffington Post: 10 Take-Aways from this year's TEDMED conference

November 2016

• MPR News: Could Danny Heinrich scuttle ideas for reforming Minnesota's sex offender program?

October 2016

• New York Post: Grown-ups’ new schemes to ruin Halloween

September 2016

• Star Tribune: After Jacob, work harder to prevent child sexual abuse

July 2016

• New York Times: Punishment that Doesn't Fit the Crime
• The Hill: Marking Kids for Life on Sex Offender Registries

June 2016

• PBS NewsHour: Should a Juvenile Sex Offender be Locked Up Indefinitely?

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

• Vice: Realizing You're a Pedophile Can Make You Want to Kill Yourself

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

• Virginian-Pilot: Police Keep a Close Eye on Sex Offenders at Halloween 

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

• Press Release: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Welcomes New Health Advisory Board Chair

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

• Interview with Tom Hall on Maryland Morning, WYPR

February 2015

• Safer Harbors: Emphasizing Prevention Over Punishment

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

• Court Ruling Upends Maryland’s Sex Offender Registry

October 2014

• John Grisham Says Sentencing for Child Porn Offenders is Too Harsh
• We Need to Make it Easier for Pedophiles to Seek Help