Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Sex Offender Registration And Notification Policies For Reducing Sexual Violence Against Women Final Report Scholar S Choice Edition

Author : Elizabeth J. Letourneau,Jill S. Levenson,Et Al
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Female sex offenders
ISBN : 1298050405

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies for Reducing Sexual Violence Against Women, Final Report - Scholar's Choice Edition by Elizabeth J. Letourneau,Jill S. Levenson,Et Al Pdf

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Author : Garrine P. Laney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criminal records
ISBN : 1604565470

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Sex Offender Registration by Garrine P. Laney Pdf

This book provides a side-by-side analysis of various sex offender-related provisions in the “Children’s Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act of 2006” (H.R. 4472), the “Children’s Safety Act of 2005” (H.R. 3132), and the “Jacob Wetterling, Megan Nicole Kanka, and Pam Lychner Sex Offender Registration and Notification Grant Act” (S. 1086). The House passed H.R. 4472 and H.R. 3132 on March 8, 2006 and September 14, 2005, respectively; the Senate passed S. 1086 on May 4, 2006. Among others, provisions analyzed in this memorandum include: registration requirements for sex offenders; registration requirements for jurisdictions; monitoring of sex offenders; national sex offender public website; national sex offender registry; address verification procedures; community notification; and studies and reports on effectiveness of programs.

Author : Sean Maddan,Lynn Pazzani
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543817591

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Sex Offenders by Sean Maddan,Lynn Pazzani Pdf

In Sex Offenders: Crimes and Processing in the Criminal Justice System, Maddan and Pazzani draw on their extensive research and teaching experience to provide coverage of all facets of sex crimes and sexual deviance in the United States. The text emphasizes rape and sexual offenses against children and society’s responses through the criminal justice system, including enforcement and investigation, the courts, corrections, and post-punishment treatment. Up-to-date information, statistics, and research assessments include imprisonment, historical punishments, recidivism, registration and notification requirements (SORN), residence restrictions, civil commitments, and treatment. The impact of sex offenses on victims’ lives is treated in depth, as are possible directions for future policies to better address the threat posed by sex offenders. Students reading this book will get a true sense of the U.S. sex offender problem, the responses of the criminal justice system, and what can be done to further decrease the incidence of sex offending. New to the Second Edition: A fresh examination of sexual harassment in the workplace in light of the #MeToo movement. Incorporation throughout the book of the etiology of sexual harassment. In-depth consideration of why sexual harassment is not handled through the criminal justice system as a criminal offense. Updated literature, research, and statistics on sex crimes and criminal justice processing. New example stories that highlight more recent real-world instances of sex crimes and criminal justice responses to sex crimes. Professors and students will benefit from: An overview of sex offenses in the United States covers major theories to account for sex offending, legal statutes defining sex crimes, types of sex offenses and offenders, sex crime victims’ characteristics, policing of sex crimes, and society’s responses to sex crimes (including registries, residence restrictions, civil commitments, and treatment). A focus on sex offenses through the criminal justice system framework examines the pros and cons of various strategies, including criminal statutes, law enforcement and court processing approaches, and correctional techniques for treating or warehousing sex offenders. Real-world narratives in each chapter illustrate and provide a practical perspective on the complexity and impact of the sex offense under discussion for society, perpetrator, and victim. Accessibly written chapters include learning objectives, lists of key terms, exercises, and essay questions for review and information retention.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Legislation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116478587

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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf

Author : John W. Morin,Jill S. Levenson
Publisher : Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1885473923

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The Road to Freedom by John W. Morin,Jill S. Levenson Pdf

A workbook for sex offenders incorporating the latest developments in relapse prevention training. It features the four-path R-P model and invites offenders, in an easy-to-read style, to examine their own approach to offending, addressing the high risk factors that trigger and maintain that approach. This book looks beyond the cognitive and behavioral linchpins of offending to the powerful emotional needs that energize deviant sex. The authors believe that only by learning to meet these needs in healthy ways can offenders attain the positive reinforcements that lead to maintaining important lifestyle changes. Newly-added sections address the role of polygraphy in sex offender treatment and the role of the Internet in sexual compulsivity.

Author : U.s. Department of Justice
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1502865963

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The National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification by U.s. Department of Justice Pdf

The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA” or “the Act”), which is title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-248), provides a new comprehensive set of minimum standards for sex offender registration and notification in the United States. These Guidelines are issued to provide guidance and assistance to covered jurisdictions—the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and Indian tribal governments—in implementing the SORNA standards in their registration and notification programs. The adoption of these Guidelines carries out a statutory directive to the Attorney General, appearing in SORNA § 112(b), to issue guidelines to interpret and implement SORNA. Other provisions of SORNA establish the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (the “SMART Office”), a component of the Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice. The SMART Office is authorized by law to administer the standards for sex offender registration and notification that are set forth in SORNA and interpreted and implemented in these Guidelines. It is further authorized to cooperate with and provide assistance to states, local governments, tribal governments, and other public and private entities in relation to sex offender registration and notification and other measures for the protection of the public from sexual abuse or exploitation. See SORNA § 146(c). Accordingly, the SMART Office should be regarded by jurisdictions discharging registration and notification functions as their key partner and resource in the federal government in further developing and strengthening their sex offender registration and notification programs, and the SMART Office will provide all possible assistance for this purpose. The development of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States has proceeded rapidly since the early 1990s, and at the present time such programs exist in all of the states, the District of Columbia, and some of the territories and tribes. These programs serve a number of important public safety purposes. In their most basic character, the registration aspects of these programs are systems for tracking sex offenders following their release into the community. If a sexually violent crime occurs or a child is molested, information available to law enforcement through the registration program about sex offenders who may have been present in the area may help to identify the perpetrator and solve the crime. If a particular released sex offender is implicated in such a crime, knowledge of the sex offender's whereabouts through the registration system may help law enforcement in making a prompt apprehension. The registration program may also have salutary effects in relation to the likelihood of registrants committing more sex offenses. Registered sex offenders will perceive that the authorities' knowledge of their identities, locations, and past offenses reduces the chances that they can avoid detection and apprehension if they reoffend, and this perception may help to discourage them from engaging in further criminal conduct.

Author : Randall B. Harris,Miguel B. Martinez
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : 1626184399

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Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by Randall B. Harris,Miguel B. Martinez Pdf

Sex offences are fairly common in the United States and largely go unrecognised and underreported. Studies estimate that about 1 in every 5 girls and 1 in every 7 to 10 boys are sexually abused by the time they reach adulthood, and about 1 in 6 adult women and 1 in 33 adult men experience an attempted or completed sexual assault. In the wake of several tragic attacks in 2005 in which young children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered, public and congressional attention became increasingly focused on what was described as the growing epidemic of sexual violence against children. Citing a need to address loopholes and deficiencies in individual state registration programs that made it possible for convicted sex offenders to move from one jurisdiction to another and evade registration, in 2006, Congress passed and the President signed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). This book address to what extent SORNA has been implemented and what challenges jurisdictions face; and its effect on public safety, criminal justice stakeholders, and registered offenders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Recidivism
ISBN : 1100119574

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A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Treatment for Sexual Offenders by Anonim Pdf

"The primary question addressed in the current meta-analysis is whether the principles of effective interventions for general offenders also apply to psychological treatment of sexual offenders. A secondary aim was to assess sex offender treatment effectiveness using only studies that met a minimum level of study quality (assessed using the Collaborative Outcome Data Committee CODC Guidelines). The studies examined compared the recidivism rates of a group of treated sexual offenders to an untreated comparison group. The meta-analysis originally planned to assess both psychological and medical interventions (e.g., hormone treatments) but none of the surgery or drug studies met the minimum level of study quality established by the CODC Guidelines."--Document.

Author : Richard Gary Zevitz,Mary Ann Farkas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Community policing
ISBN : IND:30000078968314

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Sex Offender Community Notification by Richard Gary Zevitz,Mary Ann Farkas Pdf

This article discusses the effects of Wisconsin's community notification statute that authorizes officials to alert residents about the release and reintegration of sex offenders in their communities.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine,Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309470872

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Sexual Harassment of Women by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine,Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia Pdf

Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In recent years the diversity of those participating in these fields, particularly the participation of women, has improved and there are significantly more women entering careers and studying science, engineering, and medicine than ever before. However, as women increasingly enter these fields they face biases and barriers and it is not surprising that sexual harassment is one of these barriers. Over thirty years the incidence of sexual harassment in different industries has held steady, yet now more women are in the workforce and in academia, and in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine (as students and faculty) and so more women are experiencing sexual harassment as they work and learn. Over the last several years, revelations of the sexual harassment experienced by women in the workplace and in academic settings have raised urgent questions about the specific impact of this discriminatory behavior on women and the extent to which it is limiting their careers. Sexual Harassment of Women explores the influence of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. This report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women pursuing scientific, engineering, technical, and medical careers. It also identifies and analyzes the policies, strategies and practices that have been the most successful in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in these settings.

Author : Daniel C. Molden
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462519293

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Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology by Daniel C. Molden Pdf

How incidentally activated social representations affect subsequent thoughts and behaviors has long interested social psychologists. Recently, such priming effects have provoked debate and skepticism. Originally a special issue ofSocial Cognition, this book examines the theoretical challenges researchers must overcome to further advance priming studies and considers how these challenges can be met. The volume aims to reduce the confusion surrounding current discussions by more thoroughly considering the many phenomena in social psychology that the term ?priming? encompasses, and closely examining the psychological processes that explain when and how different types of priming effects occur.

Author : National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Governmental investigations
ISBN : 0660292750

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Reclaiming Power and Place by National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Pdf

Author : Jill S. Levenson,John W. Morin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0761921923

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Treating Nonoffending Parents in Child Sexual Abuse Cases by Jill S. Levenson,John W. Morin Pdf

This book helps professionals to make informed, research-based assessments of risk, offering strategies for supporting and educating families within which sexual abuse has occurred. Without actually advocating reunification, the authors provide a unique approach for working with non-offending parents and partners who wish to work towards re-unification of the family.

Author : Geris Serran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470867754

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Sexual Offender Treatment by Geris Serran Pdf

The knowledge base on sexual offender treatment has become so extensive that following established paths is no longer the only way to expand understanding and improve the assessment and treatment of clients. Written by established and recognised experts, Sexual Offender Treatment: Controversial Issues explores only the most current, novel and controversial issues in the field of sexual offender treatment This comprehensive text covers a wide range of issues, such as recidivism risk assessment, diagnostic problems, preparatory programs, psychopathy and online sexuality. The contributors to this book are speculative and provocative, yet base their controversial approaches on evidentiary findings. With fresh and alternative perspectives offered in each chapter, this volume aims to generate discussions and challenge the reader to reconsider their position on the issues. This innovative collection will appeal to all those working with sexual offenders in a range of capacities.

Author : Tony Ward,Devon Polaschek,Anthony R. Beech
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470032886

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Theories of Sexual Offending by Tony Ward,Devon Polaschek,Anthony R. Beech Pdf

This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising about sexual offending. It presents the key ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and accessible manner. Theories are rigorously tested and evaluated, and their merits are examined from both a research and a clinical point of view. Importantly, the emphasis is on providing clear links between theory and practice, and the clinical implications of the different theories and perspectives are explicitly discussed. In addition, a number of new ideas about the aetiology of sexual offending are presented. Theories of Sexual Offending is one of the few books to draw all of the disparate strands of theorising together, and is the only one to clearly link theory to practice. It will be a valuable resource for any professional working with sexual offenders, such as clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and social workers. It will also be of interest to students of forensic and clinical psychology.