Sex offender residence restrictions: Sensible crime policy or flawed logic?

Federal Probation

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2-9

  Levenson, Jill ^a   Zgoba, Kristen ^b   Tewksbury, Richard ^c  

^a LYNN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Department of Corrections

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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