Using electronic monitoring to supervise sex offenders: Legislative patterns and implications for community corrections officers

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 414-436

  Button, Deeanna M ^a   DeMichele, Matthew ^b   Payne, Brian K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community corrections; Electronic monitoring; Sex offenders; Unintended consequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449135079     PISSN: 08874034     EISSN: 15523586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0887403408329607     Document Type: Article

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