Community Experience With Public Sex Offender Registries in the United States: A National Survey

Since the first sex offender community notification laws in the early 1990s, the expansion of online sex offender registries (SORs) in the United States has offered Americans unprecedented access to information about previously convicted sex offenders living in their communities. Despite this, surve...

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Authors: Harris, Andrew J. R. 1961- (Author) ; Cudmore, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Criminal justice policy review
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 258-279
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