Legislative Guide to Marriage Law, December 2005

In the United States civil marriages are entered into either ceremonially, by means of compliance of the parties with state statutory requirements for marriage, or non-ceremonially by the parties satisfying the requirements of a common law marriage. A marriage contracted validly, whether by complying with statutory requirements or the requirements of a common law marriage, confers the identical rights, responsibilities, and privileges on the parties. The purpose of this Legislative Guide is to provide an overview of marriage as a civil contract imbued with a public interest, and of common law marriage and statutory marriage provisions. The Guide also provides a brief summary of recent developments in marriage law.

Promising Directions: Programs that Serve Iowa Girls in a Single-Sex Environment, September 2000

Promising Directions: Programs that Serve Iowa Girls in a Single-Sex Environment - a resource guide project of the Iowa Gender-Specific Services Task Force. Produced by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

CJJP Forecasts Increase in Special Sentence Sex Offenders Caseloads, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, December 2011

The Iowa Sex Offender Research Council recently released a report to the Iowa General Assembly focusing on sex offender registration and the special sentence for sex offenders. Regarding the latter, the Council (staffed by the state’s Division of Criminal & Juvenile Justice Planning) projected a steady increase in community-based corrections’ special sentence caseloads from 619 offenders in 2011 to 2,651 offenders in 2021:

Sex Offenses in Iowa: An Overview of Selected Data, September 14, 2005

The following information is in this report produced by the CJJP: 1. Rate of reported rapes in Iowa, the west North Central states, and the U.S. 2. Statewide sex offense charges and convictions. 3. Iowa convictions for sex offenses, by class. 4. Sex offender prison and probation entries, FY2005. 5. Prison admissions for sex offenses, FY1995-2005. 6. Sex offender releases from Iowa prisons, 1990 and 1996-2005. 7. Three- year rates of sex offender recidivism. 8. Three- year rates of sex offender recidivism, by parolees and expiration.