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Making Sense out of Nonsense: The Deconstruction of State-Level Sex Offender Residence Restrictions
Releasing a sex offender from prison or placing the offender on community-based sanctions, only to have the offender commit a new sex crime, is a policy-maker’s worst nightmare. Fueled by misperceptions and public fear, sex offender laws have developed piecemeal and without rigorous empirical insight and testing. While policies and practices are well-intended, they are unlikely to resolve the very real social problem of sexual violence and may inadvertently increase victimization. Such is the possibility with residence restrictions. This type of law is among the newest in an ever-growing barrage of legislation designed specifically for sexual criminals yet what little research that exists suggests there is no correlation between residence and sexual recidivism. This article identifies 30 states with state-level residence restrictions and conducts a content analysis of each state’s legislation. Geographical and other assessments are also conducted.
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The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics
In an \"incident-driven criminal justice system, interested in physical evidence and successful conviction,\" victims' wishes for improved safety for themselves and their children, for financial independence, and for immediate problem solving are not given priority (p. 44). [...]Meloy and Miller attribute much of the failure of the victimology movement to the unremitting use of victim-blaming tropes in popular culture (pp. 29, 70).
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