A comparative study of compliant and non-compliant sexual offenders in the state of Tennessee

Sexual offenders have been identified as a group of criminals who must be monitored even after their release from prison or after completion of parole. This is accomplished by requiring sexual offenders to comply with registration requirements such as checking in with law enforcement agents on a regular basis, providing information on where they are living, working, and going to school, and being placed on a public registry for a period of at least ten years. Some offenders do comply with all of the registration requirements; unfortunately, many do not. The purpose of this research was to try and find ifthere were any statistically significant variab Jes relating to the criminal records of sexual offenders that might help to predict what sexual offenders would violate the state's registration requirements and what offenders would comply with registration requirements. Data were collected from the County Sessions and Criminal Court databases in relation to each offender's criminal history. No statistically significant relationships were found. This does not necessarily mean that there are no differences between compliant and non-complaint sexual offenders, only that violation ofregistration requirements cannot be predicted based solely on an offender's criminal history.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Del Cul, Nora Eliana

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eigenberg, Helen
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Sex offenders--Tennessee
• Sex crimes--Law and legislation

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Identifier

LB2369.2 .D442 2006

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2080