The Registration And Monitoring Of Sex Offenders

Author : Terry Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136715334

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This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world. Sex offender registers are not really registers at all but a set of ‘legal requirements’ that fall automatically on a person convicted or cautioned for a designated sexual offence; the term ‘register’ is a form of shorthand for these requirements, designed to be a contribution to greater public protection and community safety. This book provides the first serious and detailed narrative of the conception and implementation of the sex offender registers. It seeks to do so in a clear and easy-to-follow text that will be both informed and critical and will also serve as a resource book for those wanting to make further study of the process of registration and monitoring. It looks in detail at the practice of implementing registers and considers questions about their effectiveness in monitoring sex offenders and the implications of someone being on a sex offender register. The book examines the legal challenges to registers and monitoring and the position of registrants in the context of human rights and seeks to place registers and monitoring in the wider context of what is being called the surveillance society. The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders will be key reading for students of criminology and criminal justice, surveillance and human rights and practitioners in criminal justice fields of policing, probation, social work, children’s services, the judiciary, prison work and others.

Author : Terry Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136715341

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This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world. Sex offender registers are not really registers at all but a set of ‘legal requirements’ that fall automatically on a person convicted or cautioned for a designated sexual offence; the term ‘register’ is a form of shorthand for these requirements, designed to be a contribution to greater public protection and community safety. This book provides the first serious and detailed narrative of the conception and implementation of the sex offender registers. It seeks to do so in a clear and easy-to-follow text that will be both informed and critical and will also serve as a resource book for those wanting to make further study of the process of registration and monitoring. It looks in detail at the practice of implementing registers and considers questions about their effectiveness in monitoring sex offenders and the implications of someone being on a sex offender register. The book examines the legal challenges to registers and monitoring and the position of registrants in the context of human rights and seeks to place registers and monitoring in the wider context of what is being called the surveillance society. The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders will be key reading for students of criminology and criminal justice, surveillance and human rights and practitioners in criminal justice fields of policing, probation, social work, children’s services, the judiciary, prison work and others.

Author : U.s. Department of Justice
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : United States. Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Criminal records
ISBN : OCLC:1103713668

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Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA): State and Territory Implementation Progress Check by United States. Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Pdf

Author : Terry Thomas,Daniel J. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374957

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The Sex Offender Register by Terry Thomas,Daniel J. Marshall Pdf

The Sex Offender Register examines the origins, history, structure and legalities of the UK sex offender register, and explores how political and public opinion has influenced the direction the policy of registration has taken. Delving into the origins of the UK sex offender register and how the registration policy has evolved, this book provides an understanding of the register and its contribution to public protection while attempting to see the register as a policy that has grown and developed and as having an organic life of its own. The sex offender register is designed as a form of public protection rather than a punishment, requiring offenders to notify the police of their circumstances and to accept a degree of offender management from the police. The book: • puts the development of the register in its political, social and ethical context • considers the position of children and young people as offenders • outlines the movement of registered offenders across international borders • analyses how offenders can be removed from the register • explores how other countries in the UK manage sex offenders through registers • asks questions about the efficacy of the register and what contribution it makes to public protection • looks at specific aspects of registration including the management of information • delves into the experience of life on the register • examines the influence of public opinion • discusses the role of the police as custodians of the register and as offender managers. Exploring the different pressures brought to bear on the register, this book provides an authoritative starting point for police officers, social workers, probation officers, magistrates, students of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing, and the general reader wanting to understand where the UK sex offender register originated from and how it operates today.

Author : Amanda Matravers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134029211

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Sex Offenders in the Community by Amanda Matravers Pdf

This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important comparative perspective.

Author : Randall B. Harris,Miguel B. Martinez
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : 82 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child molesters
ISBN : UCSC:32106012614571

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Sex Offender Registration and Notification by Anonim Pdf

Author : Garrine P. Laney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Joyce Plotnikoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Criminal records
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111584426

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Where are They Now? by Joyce Plotnikoff Pdf

Author : Wayne Logan,J.J. Prescott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108420020

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Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws by Wayne Logan,J.J. Prescott Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Recording and registration
ISBN : OCLC:886682177

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Sex Offender Registration and Notification in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Richard Laws
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137391261

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Social Control of Sex Offenders by D. Richard Laws Pdf

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed. A large array of procedures are used in the attempt to control the difficult population of sex offenders, including: imprisonment, institutional and community treatment, community monitoring by probation and parole, electronic monitoring, registration as a sex offender, community notification of an offender’s status, strict limits on behavioral movement in the community, and residence restrictions. However, these constraints on behavior are almost completely the result of public outrage regarding sensational sex crimes, overreaction of media coverage that produce inaccurate statements of potential community risk, and the efforts of the legal profession and politicians to quell this anger and foreboding by enacting legislation that supposedly confronts the risk. This book demonstrates that we have constructed a massive edifice of community control that is socially and politically driven and which has largely failed to contain sex crime.

Author : Terry Thomas,Daniel J. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374940

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The Sex Offender Register by Terry Thomas,Daniel J. Marshall Pdf

The Sex Offender Register examines the origins, history, structure and legalities of the UK sex offender register, and explores how political and public opinion has influenced the direction the policy of registration has taken. Delving into the origins of the UK sex offender register and how the registration policy has evolved, this book provides an understanding of the register and its contribution to public protection while attempting to see the register as a policy that has grown and developed and as having an organic life of its own. The sex offender register is designed as a form of public protection rather than a punishment, requiring offenders to notify the police of their circumstances and to accept a degree of offender management from the police. The book: • puts the development of the register in its political, social and ethical context • considers the position of children and young people as offenders • outlines the movement of registered offenders across international borders • analyses how offenders can be removed from the register • explores how other countries in the UK manage sex offenders through registers • asks questions about the efficacy of the register and what contribution it makes to public protection • looks at specific aspects of registration including the management of information • delves into the experience of life on the register • examines the influence of public opinion • discusses the role of the police as custodians of the register and as offender managers. Exploring the different pressures brought to bear on the register, this book provides an authoritative starting point for police officers, social workers, probation officers, magistrates, students of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing, and the general reader wanting to understand where the UK sex offender register originated from and how it operates today.

Author : Jean Proulx,Franca Cortoni,Leam A. Craig,Elizabeth J. Letourneau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119439455

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The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders by Jean Proulx,Franca Cortoni,Leam A. Craig,Elizabeth J. Letourneau Pdf

From a rehabilitation series–what works for those who've sexually offended The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders is an important addition to the What Works in Offender Rehabilitation handbook series. This handbook specifically looks at the topics of sexual offender theory, assessment, rehabilitation, prevention, policy, and risk management. Current assessment frameworks and intervention programmes are evaluated, with consideration of treatment efficacy. The handbook provides professionals with an evidence-based approach to the management and rehabilitation of individuals who have sexually offended, while presenting ideas on the prevention of sexual abuse. Concepts and theory behind sexual offender rehabilitation are presented with a focus on how this information can be applied in the development of real-world policies that seek to reduce re-offending. The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders also includes discussions from renowned international researchers and clinicians on the empirical findings of treatment effectiveness. Presents theory, research, policy, and practice related to sexual offenses Addresses a full range of topics, such as sexual aggression, structured risk assessment, sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities, and pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders Discusses how conceptual and theoretical material can be used in establishing policy and practice As an important reference work, this rehabilitation handbook offers material for practitioners, including probation officers, social workers and psychologists. Each handbook within the What Works in Offender Rehabilitation series studies current theory, policy, and practice related to a type of offending.