Exploring the effectiveness of school-proximity residency restrictions for sex offenders

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Brandon C. Dulisse ◽  
Chivon H. Fitch ◽  
Megan Travers
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Residency Restrictions

Sex Panic and Denial

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-482
Author(s):  
Corey Rayburn Yung
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Goal ◽  
Residency Restrictions

The American criminal justice system regarding sex is not just logically incoherent, it is also often morally bankrupt because it remains unexamined and poorly understood. This Article contends that there are actually common roots underlying the seemingly oppositional forces of social panic and denial, which explain why the United States has an endemic sexual violence problem. Both panic and denial reinforce the implicit, and sometimes explicit, desire to avoid substantive engagement with socially contentious issues related to sex. The use of residency restrictions and civil commitment fit the modern social goal of putting sex offenders out-of-sight and out-of-mind. Yet, those same desires also explain America’s unwillingness to believe victims of sexual violence and police failure to properly investigate criminal complaints. In this way, sex panic dovetails with sex denial—in both instances, American culture only permits a limited discussion and understanding of sex and sexual violence. The result is that our nation fails to take sex crime complaints seriously while overreacting to the few convictions that emerge from the hostile criminal justice system.

Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Anderson ◽  
Lisa L. Sample ◽  
Calli M. Cain
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Residency Restrictions

What Predicts Where Sex Offenders Live? An Examination of Census Tract Data in Minnesota

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie A. Clark ◽  
Grant Duwe
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Community Notification ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Residency Restrictions ◽  
Large Geographic Area ◽  
Multiple Categories

Communities across the United States have become increasingly concerned over the presence of sex offenders in their neighborhoods. The purpose of this research is to examine the factors that are associated with the concentration of sex offenders in a large geographic area with few residency restrictions. This research also examines multiple categories of sex offenders subject to varying levels of community notification, allowing for an assessment of what, if any, effect community notification has on the residential patterns of sex offenders. Concentrated disadvantage, concentrated affluence, and housing affordability are all significant factors in explaining the concentration of multiple categories of sex offenders. Concentrated affluence relative to poverty is the most consistent predictor of sex offender concentration, revealing that more affluent communities ward off sex offender residents, regardless of community notification requirements.

Some Adolescents Mislabeled as Sex Offenders

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
BRUCE JANCIN
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders
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