Effects of south Carolina's sex offender registration and notification policy on deterrence of adult sex crimes

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 537-552

  Letourneau, Elizabeth J ^a   Levenson, Jill S ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar ^a   Armstrong, Kevin S ^a   Sinha, Debajyoti ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LYNN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Notification; Policy; Registration; Sexual offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950324503     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854810363569     Document Type: Article

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