Article Are Sex Offenders Moving into Social Disorganization? Analyzing the Residential Mobility of California

This study focuses on the relationship between returning offender residential mobility and neighborhood structural factors characteristic of socially disor-ganized neighborhoods. It uses a unique data set that combines information on parolees released in the state of California during the 2005-2006 time period with their geocoded addresses to view the types of neighborhoods they are moving to. The authors find that sex offenders are entering neigh-borhoods with more concentrated disadvantage and residential instability upon reentry from prison and upon subsequent moves. This effect for sex offender status is particularly strong for whites and Latinos, leading the