[H]igh recidivism rates shows that the threat of jail time alone is not sufficient to curb sex crimes. With this in mind, legislators sought to find other ways that would protect potential victims. Community notification laws were the first policy to be implemented. Community notification methods included press releases, flyers, phone calls, door-to-door contact, neighborhood meetings, and Internet sites, which informed citizens of the name, location, and/or other information of persons who had been convicted of sex crimes. Part II of this note will describe current sex-offender restrictions in place across the country. Part III will provide a constitutional analysis of these sex-offender restrictions. Based on this analysis, Part IV will c...
During a weekend in late July, 1994, Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old girl, was raped and murdered in H...
Sex offender registries have been established throughout the United States. To date, 16 states have ...
Many states and hundreds of local municipalities have passed zoning laws prohibit-ing sex offenders ...
[H]igh recidivism rates shows that the threat of jail time alone is not sufficient to curb sex crime...
Residence restrictions 2 Sexual violence is a serious social problem and policy-makers continue to w...
Modern day sex offender legislation was first implemented in the early 1990s in response to a number...
The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations...
The question of how to safely deal with convicted sex offenders upon release from incarceration has ...
Although most sex offenses are committed by relatives or acquaintances of the victims, our public po...
The development of sex offender residence restriction laws are predicated on the assumption sexual o...
The public’s panic about the fear of recidivism if adjudicated sex offenders are ever to be released...
Currently over five thousand individuals are indefinitely confined in the United States with little ...
All states and the District of Columbia have passed sex offender registration and community notifica...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.Across America, states, localities, and private...
Sex offender legislation has grown exponentially over the past decade and in conjunction the courts ...
During a weekend in late July, 1994, Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old girl, was raped and murdered in H...
Sex offender registries have been established throughout the United States. To date, 16 states have ...
Many states and hundreds of local municipalities have passed zoning laws prohibit-ing sex offenders ...
[H]igh recidivism rates shows that the threat of jail time alone is not sufficient to curb sex crime...
Residence restrictions 2 Sexual violence is a serious social problem and policy-makers continue to w...
Modern day sex offender legislation was first implemented in the early 1990s in response to a number...
The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations...
The question of how to safely deal with convicted sex offenders upon release from incarceration has ...
Although most sex offenses are committed by relatives or acquaintances of the victims, our public po...
The development of sex offender residence restriction laws are predicated on the assumption sexual o...
The public’s panic about the fear of recidivism if adjudicated sex offenders are ever to be released...
Currently over five thousand individuals are indefinitely confined in the United States with little ...
All states and the District of Columbia have passed sex offender registration and community notifica...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.Across America, states, localities, and private...
Sex offender legislation has grown exponentially over the past decade and in conjunction the courts ...
During a weekend in late July, 1994, Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old girl, was raped and murdered in H...
Sex offender registries have been established throughout the United States. To date, 16 states have ...
Many states and hundreds of local municipalities have passed zoning laws prohibit-ing sex offenders ...