The effects of sex offender registration and notification on judicial decisions

Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-317

  Letourneau, Elizabeth J ^a   Levenson, Jill S ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar ^d   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)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Public notification; Sex offender registration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955178655     PISSN: 07340168     EISSN: 15563839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734016809360330     Document Type: Article

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