Assessing the impact of sex offender registration and community notification on sex-offending trajectories

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 570-582

  Tewksbury, Richard ^a   Jennings, Wesley G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Notification; Registration; Sex offenders; Sex offending; SORN; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950309483     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854810363570     Document Type: Article

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