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No Easy Answers: Human Rights Watch Study, September 11, 2007:
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0907/
The Adam Walsh Act: Scarlet Letter, by Lara Geer Farley, April 17, 2008:
http://washburnlaw.edu/wlj/47-2/articles/geerfarley-lara.pdf
Fact Sheets Examine Impact of Sex Offender Registries: Justice Policy Institute,
September 2, 2008:
http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1811&smID=1588&ssmID=74.htm
10 Myths and facts about Sex Offenders: CSOM, August 2000:
http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
Collateral Damage: Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders by Jill
Levenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Services at Lynn University
Published in (2009) issue of American Journal of Criminal Justice,
Collateral Damage - Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders.pdf
The Ethics of American Youth – Josephson Institute - 2008 Summary
Survey of Teens Reveals Entrenched Habits of Dishonesty, Stealing, Lying, and
Cheating Rates Climb to Alarming Rates:
http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/index.html
(But yet just an accusation from a teen is sufficient for a conviction, time in
prison, loss of employment, loss of home, loss of family and a lifetime of being
stigmatized as a Sex Offender)
Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies:
Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State
Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United
States., December 31, 2008:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/
Revising the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Our Best Hope for
Dealing with Sex-Abuse Hysteria in the United States, Richard A. Gardner, 1993
to the reporters.
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume5/j5_1_3.htm
Residential Proximity to Schools and Daycare Centers:
Influence on sex offense recidivism, An empirical analysis by Jill Levenson, Ph.
D., Associate Professor of Human Services at Lynn University, December 23,
2008:
Residential proximity to schools and daycare centers.pdf
When Evidence Is Ignored: Residential Restrictions For Sex Offenders
By Richard Tewksbury and Jill Levenson
http://www.aca.org/publications/pdf/Tewksbury.pdf
New Jersey DOC Study on the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration,
February 11, 2009:
New Jersey DOC Study on the effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration 2.11.09.
pdf
New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives Research
Bulletin: Sex Offender Populations, Recidivism and Actuarial Assessment, 2007
New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives Research
Bulletin.pdf
The Pursuit of Safety: Sex Offender Policy in the United States, Vera
Institute of Justice, September 2008:
http://www.vera.org/publication_pdf/the-pursuit-of-safety-appendices.pdf
Failure to Register: An Empirical Analysis of Sex Offense Recidivism, by Jill
Levenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Services at Lynn University,
April 1, 2009
Failure to Register; An Empirical Analysis of Sex Offense Recidivism.pdf
Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders, An Overview of States, Vera
Institute of Justice, September 2008:
http://www.vera.org/publication_pdf/treatment-reentry.pdf
Youth Sex Offenses Fact and Fiction, Justice Policy Institute, February 2009
http://www.nacdl.org/sl_docs.
nsf/issues/sexoffender_attachments/$FILE/JPI_Fact.pdf
Registering Harm: How Sex Offender Registries Fail Youth and Communities,
Justice Policy Institute, November 21, 2008:
http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=80.htm
The Council of State Governments Resolution in Opposition of the Sex Offender
Registration and Notification Act as it Applies to Juvenile Offenders, December 6,
2008:
http://csg-web.csg.
org/policy/pubsafety/documents/CSGResolutionOpposingSORNA.pdf
SOL Research.org:
Research on Sex Offender Laws and their Effects on People and Society
http://www.solresearch.org/~SOLR/
Sex Offender Treatment: Reconciling Criminal Justice Priorities and Therapeutic
Goals by Mary Ann Farkas & Gale Miller, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.78?journalCode=fsr
Sexual Predator Laws: A Two-Decade Retrospective by Eric S. Janus & Robert
A. Prentky, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.90?journalCode=fsr
Brandishing the Mark of Cain: Defects in the Adam Walsh Act by Joseph L.
Lester, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.107
Perpetual Panic, by Michael O’Hear Marquette University Law School, March
2009:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1357484
Life before the Modern Sex Offender Statutes, by Deborah W. Denno, Fordham
University School of Law, January 2009:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1102663
One of These Laws is Not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender
Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions, by Corey
Rayburn Yung, The John Marshall Law School, August 2008:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1193871
Banishment of Sex Offenders: Individual Liberties, National Rights and the
Dormant Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, and Alternatives, by Shelley
Ross Saxer, Pepperdine University, September 2008:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1266831
The Sex Offender Register: A Case Study in Function Creep, by Terry Thomas,
Leeds Metropolitan University, June 2008:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1142362
Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past Present and Future,
by Wayne A. Logan, Florida State University College of Law, February 2008:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089204
Be They Fish or Not Fish: The Fishy Registration of Nonsexual Offenders, by
Ofer Raban, University of Oregon, August 2007:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1009274
American and Canadian Approaches to Sex Offenders: A Study of the Politics of
Dangerousness by Michael Petrunik, Lisa Murphy, & J. Paul Fedoroff, December
2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.111?journalCode=fsr
From Wetterling to Walsh: The Growth of Federalization in Sex Offender Policy
by Richard G. Wright, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.124
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Commerce Clause by
Corey Rayburn Yung, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.133
Child Pornography Sentencing: The Road Here and the Road Ahead by Ian N.
Friedman & Kristina W. Supler, December 2008:
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.83
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