Book contents
- Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws: An Empirical Evaluation
- Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Origins and Evolution
- 2 Variations in the Structure and Operation of SORN Systems
- 3 Registries and Registrants:
- 4 Law Enforcement and SORN
- 5 The Public and SORN Laws
- 6 The Ancillary Consequences of SORN
- 7 Offenders and SORN Laws
- 8 Integrating the Etiology of Sexual Offending into Evidence-Based Policy and Practices
- 9 Juvenile Registration and Notification Are Failed Policies That Must End
- Conclusion
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
Book contents
- Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws: An Empirical Evaluation
- Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Origins and Evolution
- 2 Variations in the Structure and Operation of SORN Systems
- 3 Registries and Registrants:
- 4 Law Enforcement and SORN
- 5 The Public and SORN Laws
- 6 The Ancillary Consequences of SORN
- 7 Offenders and SORN Laws
- 8 Integrating the Etiology of Sexual Offending into Evidence-Based Policy and Practices
- 9 Juvenile Registration and Notification Are Failed Policies That Must End
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws were motivated by several basic empirical assumptions: (1) that individuals convicted of sex offenses recidivate at far higher rates than other subpopulations convicted of crimes (they do not) and (2) that to effectively combat sexual offending, especially concerning children, communities need identifying and locational information regarding individuals convicted of sex offenses so that they can take protective precautions (when in reality most sexual offending is committed by persons known to victims and first-time offenders, who by definition are not registrants).
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- Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification LawsAn Empirical Evaluation, pp. 181 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021