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No Easy Answers
Sex Offender Laws in the US
Acknowledgements
I.Summary
Public
Safety and Mistaken Premises
Over-breadth
of the Registration Requirement
Unrestricted
Access to Registry Information..
Residency
Restrictions
Juvenile
Offenders
Are the Laws
Counterproductive?
US Sex
Offender Policies: Alone in the World..
Rethinking
Sex Offender Laws
II.
Methodology
III.
Recommendations
Adam Walsh
Act
State Sex
Offender Registries
Community
Notification..
Residency
Restrictions
Treatment,
Research, and Education..
IV.
Sexual Violence in the United States
Sexual
Violence..
Danger from
Strangers?
High Rates
of Recidivism?
Case Study:
North Carolina..
Treatment
V.
Sex Offender Registration Laws
The Role of
Federal Law...
State
Registration Laws
How Bad Can
Registration Be? Chris F.'s Story
Do
Registries Help Law Enforcement?
Rethinking
Registration..
VI.
Public Access to Information on Sex Offenders
Legislative
History
Community
Notification by Law Enforcement
Internet
Registries: Expanding Community Notification to the World..
State
Internet Registries
Does
Community Notification Work?
Is Community
Notification Counterproductive?
Rethinking
Community Notification: Vermont as a Model
A Model
Registration and Community Notification Program: Minnesota..
VII.
Sex Offender Laws and Child Offenders
Children as
Sex Offenders
Jim T.'s
story
Consensual
Teenage Sex
Case Study:
Dan M.'s story
Adjudicated
Youth on Public Registries: Sealed Records "Unsealed" by Sex Offender Laws
Rethinking
Sex Offender Laws for Juvenile Offenders
VIII.
Consequences of Registration and Community Notification Laws for Registrants
and Their Loved Ones
Case study:
Walter D.
Privacy
Employment
Vigilante
Violence..
Living
Peacefully at Home..
Suicide and
Despair
IX.
Residency Restriction Laws100
Iowa.. 104
Oklahoma.. 109
Georgia.. 110
California.. 112
Local
Ordinances114
Do Residency
Restrictions Protect Public Safety?115
Impact on
Family Unity117
Rethinking
Residency Restrictions118
Other
Countries and Sex Offender Laws118
X.
Human Rights and Sex Offender Laws119
Special
Rights of Child Offenders121
A Human
Rights Analysis of US Sex Offender Laws122
Sex
Offenders Laws in US Courts125
XI.
Conclusion130
Appendix132
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