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March 2023

• Psychology Today: We Need Prevention Science to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

February 2023

• Time: America Has Been Going About Stopping Child Sex Abuse The Wrong Way

January 2023

• Psychology Today: Teaching Teens to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
• Public Health on Call: Preventing child sexual abuse

December 2022

• The Baltimore Sun: Prevention, healing and justice are all needed to address child sexual abuse
• The Johns Hopkins News-Letter: New education intervention fills knowledge gaps on child sexual assault

November 2022

• The Baltimore Sun: Preventing child sexual abuse must be a priority
• Washington Post: We need to prevent child sex abuse, not just respond to it

October 2022

• Economist Impact: Out of the Shadows 
• Psychology Today: Put People First When Discussing Child Sexual Abuse
• Public News Service: Researchers Link Medicaid Expansion with Child-Neglect Reduction

September 2022

• Psychology Today: What Medicaid Expansion Can Tell Us About Child Maltreatment
• Harvard Inquest: Prosecution, incarceration, and surveillance don’t stop child sexual abuse. But prevention can.

July 2022

• Psychology Today: Hate Won't Prevent Child Sexual Abuse; Research Will

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
• 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

August 2021

• Psychology Today: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Receives Major Boost

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

• The Atlantic: The Worst Situation Imaginable for Family Violence
• The Globe and Mail: How will Covid-19 change our lives, our country, our cities, and our world?
• 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 

April 2020

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

February 2020

• Psychology Today: 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: Moore Center Awarded Congressional Appropriations of $1M in New CDC 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

August 2019

• Vice News: The men who call themselves non-offending pedophiles

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
• Psychology Today: Outrage and disbelief: Sex abuse in the Catholic Church

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
• Sports Illustrated: Prospect and pariah
• Press Release: One year's losses for child sexual abuse in U.S. top $9 billion, new study suggests

April 2018

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

March 2018

• Johns Hopkins Magazine: When the abuser is a child, too
• 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

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

September 2017

• Elizabeth Letourneau's TEDMED talk on child sexual abuse prevention

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

• CBS News: Childhood sex abuse could accelerate puberty in girls, study finds
• Psychology Today: Should children register as sex offenders?

March 2017

• Sky News: Not all child abusers are monsters: experts
• 9News: Issues in dealing with children who abuse
• Psychology Today: Organizations must do more to prevent child sexual abuse

January 2017

• Psychology Today: Child sexual abuse prevention goes to TEDMED

December 2016

• The Huffington Post: 10 Take-aways from this year's TEDMED conference
• Psychology Today: Can programs like "Help Wanted" prevent child sexual abuse?

November 2016

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

October 2016

• New York Post: Grown-ups’ new schemes to ruin Halloween
• Psychology Today: Prevention is possible! Exploring the public health approach

September 2016

• Star Tribune: Counterpoint: After Jacob, work harder to prevent child sexual abuse
• Psychology Today: A different perspective for stopping child sexual abuse

July 2016

• New York Times (Sunday Review): 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?
• Delaware Lawyer: A lifetime label: Juvenile sex offender registration
• Rising to 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

• Psychology Today: Sympathy for the deviant
• Stateline: States slowly scale back juvenile sex offender registries
• Reuters: Tide turns against U.S. residency restrictions on sex offenders
• Philly Voice: Tide turns against U.S. residency restrictions on sex offenders
• San Angelo Standard Times: States rethink sex crime files

October 2015

• Virginian-Pilot: Police keep a close eye on sex offenders at Halloween

September 2015

• Fox 45 Baltimore: Ryan T. Shields is interviewed regarding a juvenile charged with assault
• 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
• Island Packet: Ex-Beaufort county teacher who molested 9 boys could soon be free

August 2015

• Baltimore Business Journal: People on the Move - Stephen Moore, MD, MPH appointed to chair JHSPH health advisory board
• Washington Post: The Jared Fogel case: Why we understand so little about child sexual abuse
• Bend Bulletin: 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
• NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Secrets and realities of US child abuse
• Freakonomics Radio: Making sex offenders pay—and pay and pay and pay

May 2015

• Observador (Portuguese newspaper): They distributed papers to warn you that I was a pedophile
• 10 Firsts in 10 Decades: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

April 2015

•  Maryland Public Radio: Maryland Morning with Tom Hall

February 2015

• Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine: Safer harbors: Emphasizing prevention over punishment

December 2014

• Bloomberg Businessweek: Pennsylvania's juvenile sex offender registry is unconstitutional, state supreme court rules
• Vox.com: This woman is trying to stop sex offenders by helping them
• Chicago Bureau: Studies, experts question effect of placing children on sex offender registries

November 2014

• Baltimore Sun: Court ruling upends Maryland's sex offender registry

October 2014

• Gainesville Daily Register: What to really be afraid of this Halloween
• Reason.com: Three ways parents are ruining Halloween
• Washington Post: John Grisham says sentencing for child porn offenders is too harsh.
• TIME Op Ed: We need to make it easier for pedophiles to seek help
• The Daily Dot: It's time to reconsider how we treat pedophiles
• ABC News: States fighting sex trafficking with decriminalization of prostitution for minors

August 2014

• Matter Magazine: You’re 16. You’re a pedophile. You don’t want to hurt anyone. What do you do now? 
• Child Sex Trafficking in the United States: Identifying Gaps and Research Priorities from a Public Health Perspective
• Jezebel: How do doctors help a self-identified pedophile?

April 2014

• This American Life: Tarred and feathered 
• Brown Political Review: Pulling pedophilia out of the dark

December 2013

• The Philadelphia Inquirer: Championing the cause of child sex abuse

November 2013

• Politico panel on domestic sex trafficking with Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, Cindy McCain and Malika Saada Saar

August 2013

• Baltimore Sun Op-ed: A prevention-first approach to child sexual abuse

June 2013

• The Hill Congress Blog: Government moves to address domestic child sex trafficking

January 2013

• Slate: XX Factor, Jennifer Bleyer: Why aren't we doing more to stop child pornography before it starts?
• All Sides with Ann Fisher: Discussion of sexual violence in our culture

October 2012

• Slate, Jennifer Bleyer: How can we stop pedophiles? Stop treating them like monsters
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health establishes center to prevent child sexual abuse

July 2012

• PBS News Hour, Jeffrey Brown: What are the lessons from the Penn State scandal?
• The Baltimore Sun, Susan Reimer: Sandusky case: Child sexual abuse needs prevention, not just punishment