Community Protection from Sexual Violence: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of American Policies

International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 587-607

  Levenson, Jill S ^a  

^a LYNN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Do these laws work to prevent repeat offending?; History of US community protection policies; National incident based reporting system (NIBRS); Sex offender policies in other countries; Sex offender registration and notification act (SORNA); The australian national child offender register (ANCOR); Unintended consequences of SORN policies and residence restrictions; Violent and sex offender register (ViSOR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860582463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990420.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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