ALLEN v. ILLINOIS, CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS
No. 85-5404. , Argued April 30, 1986, Decided July 1, 1986
Petitioner was charged in an Illinois Circuit Court with committing the crimes of unlawful restraint and deviate sexual assault, and the State filed a petition to have him declared a sexually dangerous person within the meaning of the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (Act). Pursuant to the Act, the court ordered petitioner to submit to two psychiatric examinations. At the bench trial on the petition, the State presented the examining psychiatrists' testimony, over petitioner's objection that they had elicited information from him in violation of his privilege against self-incrimination. Based on that testimony, as well as that of the victim of the sexual assault, the court found petitioner to be a sexually dangerous person under the Act. The Illinois Appellate Court reversed, holding that the trial court had improperly relied on testimony in violation of petitioner's privilege against self-incrimination. The Illinois Supreme Court reversed, holding that that privilege was not available in sexually-dangerous-person proceedings because they are "essentially civil in nature." ..more..
October 20, 2007
ALLEN v. ILLINOIS, 478 U.S. 364 (1986)
August 4, 2007
Self-Reported Sex Crimes of Nonincarcerated Paraphiliacs
Abstract:
This article will present data gathered by the authors through structured clinical interviews of 561 paraphiliacs regarding demographic characteristics, frequency and variety of deviant sexual acts, and number and characteristics of victims. Results show that nonincarcerated sex offenders (1) are well educated and socioeconomically diverse; (2) report an average number of crimes and victims that is substantially higher than that represented in the current literature; and (3) sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is five times greater than the molestation of young girls. The relevance of these findings is discussed. ..more.. by GENE G. ABEL, Emory University School of Medicine -and- JUDITH V. BECKER, Columbia University -and- MARY MITTELMAN, Columbia University -and- JERRY CUNNINGHAM-RATHNER, Columbia University -and- JOANNE L. ROULEAU, Emory University -and- WILLIAM D. MURPHY, University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences (Have copy on disk)
