February 2, 2007

'Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Eric S. Janus has set himself a thankless task. For more than a decade, the vice dean and professor at William Mitchell College of Law has been an active critic of aggressive new statutes aimed at "sexual predators."

Along with his research, Mr. Janus served as co-counsel in a 12-year case that unsuccessfully challenged Minnesota's civil-commitment law, which is used to reconfine sex offenders after they have completed their prison sentences. Now he offers Failure to Protect: America's

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