Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
An Empirical Evaluation

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

Wayne Logan (Edited by), J.J. Prescott (Edited by)

9781108411356, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 September 2022

198 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.276 kg

Despite being in existence for over a quarter century, costing multiple millions of dollars and affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals, sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws have yet to be subject to a book-length treatment of their empirical dimensions - their premises, coverage, and impact on public safety. This volume, edited by Wayne Logan and J.J. Prescott, assembles the leading researchers in the field to provide an in-depth look at what have come to be known as 'Megan's Laws', offering a social science-based analysis of one of the most important, and controversial, criminal justice system initiatives undertaken in modern times.

Preface
1. Origins and Evolution Wayne A. Logan
2. Variations in the Structure and Operation of SORN Systems Andrew J. Harris and Scott M. Walfield
3. Registries and Registrants: Research on the Composition of Registries Alissa R. Ackerman
4. Law Enforcement and SORN Richard Tewksbury and Kristen Zgoba
5. The Public and SORN Laws Lisa L. Sample
6. The Ancillary Consequenvces of SORN Kelly Socia
7. Offenders and SORN Laws J.J. Prescott and Amanda Agan
8. Integrating the Etiology of Sexual Offending into Evidence-Based Policy and Practices Jill S. Levenson
9. Junvenile Registration and Notification: Failed Policeis That Must End Elizazeth J. Letourneau
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Criminal justice law [LNFB], Criminal law & procedure [LNF], International criminal law [LBBZ], Research methods: general [GPS]