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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Logan, Wayne A
• Letourneau, Elizabeth J
• Proulx, Jean
• Cortoni, Franca
• Craig, Leam A

Titel

Community‐Based Approaches to Sex Offender Management

Ist Teil von

• The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders, 2020, p.411-426

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter examines research findings concerning several of the most noteworthy examples of: sex offender registration and community notification (a.k.a. “Megan's Laws”); residence restrictions; involuntary and indeterminate civil commitment (a.k.a. “sexually violent predator” laws); and use of electronic monitoring (EM). In a nutshell, sex offender registration and notification laws require that convicted sex offenders provide government authorities a variety of identifying information. In most states, all registrants are subject to community notification, based solely on offense of conviction, with registry websites not always stating that individuals have not been evaluated for risk of reoffense. The sex‐offender population subject to EM varies among states. Some states require it after release from correctional supervision, while others make it a condition of probation or parole. Because EM enables authorities to monitor location, it can operate in tandem with exclusion zones, discussed earlier, which prohibit registrants from living in or visiting designated areas.