Effects of South Carolina's sex offender registration and notification policy on adult recidivism

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 435-458

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LYNN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult sexual offender; recidivism; registration

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149370789     PISSN: 08874034     EISSN: 15523586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0887403409353148     Document Type: Article

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