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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Community Notification"”.
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A systematic review of surveys on public attitudes toward community notification for sex offenders
Scholarly interest in sex offender community notification laws increased after Megan's Law of 1994 mandated public notification of registered sex offenders. This interest centered primarily on public attitudes toward sex offenders and community notification. The current study consisted of a …
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Labeling Adult Sex Offenders and Sexually Violent Predators: The Impact of Registration and Community Notification
… of their parole. These officials can warn local community members, organizations, and establishments of the offender's incoming presence. Research indicates that community notification can adversely affect sex offenders in terms of their interpersonal and family relationships, employment …
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Predicting Views of Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policies Through Life Experiences.
<p>Sex Offender Registries and Community notification laws are in many ways derived from emotion. It is believed that one can predict views on these social policies by examining aspects of life experience due to Techniques of Neutralization and Labeling theories. Reliability and Factor analyses …
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Geospatial Analysis of Registered Sex Offenders: a case study from Pulaski County, Arkansas
… current legislation regarding the registration, community notification and residence restrictions of sex offenders are not efficacious and are therefore not justified by this research. </p>
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THE SEXTORTION PHENOMENON: CREATING A LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO EFFECTIVELY SAFEGUARD MINOR VICTIMS
… case studies involving sex offender registration/community notification and human trafficking and conducted interviews with district attorneys, defense attorneys, and law enforcement officers across California. It also explored legal frameworks from Utah, South Carolina, and New Jersey, which have …
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Sex offenders, sexuality, and social control: A case study in the social construction of a social problem
… evidence that sex offender registration and community notification is ineffective and has many negative consequences. The societal reaction is created through moral panics resulting in views that are not always reflective of the nature of the problem. In effect, the policies put into place in …
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
<p>Sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) policies have been instituted across the country to manage individuals in the community who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to …
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Validation of the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool--II
… and federal regulations (e.g., registration and community notification laws) (Epperson, Ralston, Fowers, DeWitt, & Gore, 2006). The Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool -- II (JSORRAT-II; Epperson et al., 2006) is the only known fully actuarially-derived risk assessment tool …