RT Article
T1 What Predicts Where Sex Offenders Live?: An Examination of Census Tract Data in Minnesota
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 28
IS 5
SP 488
OP 510
A1 Clark, Valerie A. 1981-
A2 Duwe, Grant 1971-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/172556534X
AB 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.
K1 sex offender residency
K1 sex offender notification
K1 sex offenders
DO 10.1177/0887403415594200