Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Challenges: The Supreme Court Continues Its Trend

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 494-501

  Scott, Charles L ^a,b,d   Gerbasi, Joan B ^b,c  

^a Forensic Psychiatry Division   (United States)

^b Department of Clinical Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; COURT; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LAW; OFFENDER; REGISTER; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL CRIME; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CRIMINAL LAW; DUTY TO WARN; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRISONERS; PUBLIC POLICY; RECORDS; REGISTRIES; SEX OFFENSES; SUPREME COURT DECISIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642434296     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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