TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - The public safety impact of community notification laws rearrest of convicted sex offenders
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Freeman, Naomi J.
SP  - 539
EP  - 564
VL  - 58
IS  - 4
N2  - Sex offender management is one of the highest-profile issues in public safety today. Although states have enacted community notification laws as a means to protect communities from sexual offending, limited research has been conducted to examine the impact of these laws on public safety. As such, this study used a quasi-experimental design to examine the relationship, if any, between community notification legislation and sex offender rearrest. Sex offenders who were subject to community notification (n = 10,592, 61.7%) were compared to sex offenders who were not subject to community notification requirements (n = 6,573, 38.3%). Results indicate that sex offenders subject to community notification were rearrested twice as quickly (for a sexual offense) and 47% more quickly (for a nonsexual offense) than those not subject to community notification. The findings yield implications for sex offender interventions and public policies and suggest that notification may not be an effective strategy for significantly reducing sexual offenses.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128708330852
ID  - ref1
ER  -