The Williams Institute – UCLA School of Law | Feb. 9, 2021

Sex Offense Civil Commitment: An LGBTQ and Racial Justice Issue

This webinar features a discussion of civil commitment programs in the U.S., recent research regarding the overrepresentation of Black and sexual minority men in those programs and legal challenges to civil commitment statutes.  Panelists will also discuss the need to address violence in our communities without further expanding mass incarceration. The online event took place Feb. 9, 2021; archived video is below.

Featuring

Ilan H. Meyer     Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams Institute

Eric S. Janus      Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Trevor Hoppe    Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Nkechi Taifa       Founding Principal and CEO, The Taifa Group, LLC

Tyrone Hanley  Senior Policy Counsel, National Center for Lesbian Rights

VIDEO:  https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/events/civil-commitment-webinar/

REPORT | Oct. 2020

The Williams Institute:  Civil Commitment of People Convicted of Sex Offenses in the United States

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/civil-commitment-us/