Deviant justice - The American gulag

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Deviant Justice tackles head-on the extraordinarily controversial "civil commitment" of "sex offenders" whose criminal sentences are about to end. In exposé fashion, the book reveals the true, preventive permanent detention aim of such laws.

Unlike any other type of commitment laws, these laws are not based on any mental illness, any hallucinations, any maniacal urges, or any uncontrollable impulses, but instead simply on what are deemed one's propensities or sexual attractions.

The author ("Lawyer X") uses Minnesota as a prototypical example of egregious commitment laws as to sex offenders. Such laws are so vague and limitless that any sex offender can be committed - even mere suspects with no actual convictions or even no arrests. State appellate courts regularly simply invent non-scientific decisional factors that make upholding sex offender commitments a certainty every time.

Among a number of egregious cases, Lawyer X describes situations in which teens with only one conviction and offenders over 80 years old have been committed.

source: About the book 'Deviant Justice - The American Gulag' by Lawyer X; www.indepthmedia.org/apps/webstore/products/show/4268276; www.indepthmedia.org; Text taken from internet: 2 August 2014; Book from 2013