RT Article
T1 Alerting Faculty, Staff, and Students? Public Opinion on Sex Offender Notification on College Campuses
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 38
IS 9/10
SP 6650
OP 6675
A1 Budd, Kristen M.
A2 Mancini, Christina
A2 Frye, Shelby
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1841093866
AB Institutes of higher education have been called to action to address and prevent sexual violence perpetrated against college students. Based on legislation, one potential pathway is the extension of sex offender registration and notification (SORN) to the campus community. No research has assessed public perceptions of extending SORN, and in particular the perceived importance of notifying faculty, staff, and/or students about an enrolled student on campus that is registered. Via an online survey, this research assessed public perceptions of 1,269 U.S. adults in relation to campus notification. Using logistic regression, influencing factors that increased the odds respondents would find notification important for faculty/staff and students included their level of concern about registered persons attending college, number of children, and perceptions of social problems being worse now compared to 10 years ago. In regard to notifying students, African American respondents were more likely to think notifying students was important. Findings are discussed in relation to prior work on SORN as well as policy implications and considerations.
K1 University
K1 sex offender registration and notification
K1 Sex crimes
K1 Public Opinion
K1 College
DO 10.1177/08862605221137707