An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Community Notification and Registration: Do the Best Intentions Predict the Best Practices?

Zgoba, Kristen M.; Veysey, Bonita M.; Dalessandro, Melissa

doi:10.1080/07418820903357673

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“…A more recent examination found no significant effect of Megan's Law (and several other types of reforms) on reports of forcible rape from 1970 to 2003 (Ackerman, Sacks, & Greenberg, in press). Other studies have produced similar, nonsignificant results (Schram & Milloy, 1995;Zgoba, Veysey, & Dalessandro, 2010). To illustrate an exception, Letourneau, Levenson, Bandyopadhyay, Armstrong, and Sinha (2010) reported an 11% reduction in sex crime arrests (first-time offenses only) in South Carolina following the passage of a registration and notification policy.…”

Section: Sex Offender Registries Logic and Efficacymentioning

confidence: 57%

Examining Factors That Predict Public Concern About the Collateral Consequences of Sex Crime Policy

Mancini

2013

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Sex crime policies have been associated with unintended effects. One involves harassment of registered sex offenders. Despite this finding, and the prominent role of the public in reentry efforts, few studies have examined public opinion about this collateral consequence. By extension, virtually no scholarship has investigated predictors of concern. From a utilitarian perspective, it follows that among those who rely on the registry or who feel sex offenders are driven to reoffend, concern about the registry's unintended effects will be reduced. In testing this hypothesis the study draws on responses from a national public opinion poll conducted in 2005-a critical time when state registries and online registry websites became increasingly available. Findings support an instrumental or utilitarian argument. Use of the registry and pessimism about offender rehabilitation significantly decreased public concern about registries' negative outcomes. Implications for research and offender reentry debates are discussed.

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Section: Sex Offender Registries Logic and Efficacymentioning

confidence: 57%

Examining Factors That Predict Public Concern About the Collateral Consequences of Sex Crime Policy

Mancini

2013

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…Although the methodology used by Duwe and Donnay (2008) and the findings they reported have been widely misinterpreted in subsequent studies (Freeman, 2009;Kernsmith, Comartin, Craun, & Kernsmith, 2009;Tewksbury & Zgoba, 2010;Tewksbury & Jennings, 2010;Zgoba, Veysey, & Dalessandro, 2010), the results indicate there are conditions under which community notification can produce public safety benefits. In reducing sexual recidivism, Minnesota's tiered risk management system adheres to the risk principle by concentrating notification resources on the highest risk offenders.…”

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Can Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) Work in the United States? Preliminary Results From a Randomized Experiment in Minnesota

Duwe

2012

Sex Abuse

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In 2008, the Minnesota Department of Corrections implemented Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability (MnCOSA), a sex offender reentry program based on the Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) model developed in Canada during the 1990s. Using a randomized experimental design, this study evaluates the effectiveness of MnCOSA by conducting a cost-benefit analysis and comparing recidivism outcomes in the MnCOSA (N = 31) and control groups (N = 31). Despite the small total sample size (N = 62), the results from Cox regression models suggest that MnCOSA significantly reduced three of the five recidivism measures examined. By the end of 2011, none of the MnCOSA offenders had been rearrested for a new sex offense compared with one offender in the control group. Because of less recidivism observed among MnCOSA participants, the results from the cost-benefit analysis show the program has produced an estimated US$363,211 in costs avoided to the state, resulting in a benefit of US$11,716 per participant. For every dollar spent on MnCOSA, the program has generated an estimated benefit of US$1.82 (an 82% return on investment).

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“…Such policies are debated regarding their efficacy (Tewksbury & Jennings, 2010;Zgoba, Veysey, & Dalessandro, 2010), and their effects on offenders (Levenson & Cotter, 2005;Levenson, Zgoba, & Tewksbury, 2007;Tewksbury, 2004Tewksbury, , 2005Tewksbury & Lees, 2007;Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2007) and communities (Barnes, Dukes, Tewksbury, & De Troye, 2009;Tewksbury & Jennings, 2010). However, despite research assessing the consequences of such policies, there is surprisingly little research addressing people's attitudes toward these policies.…”

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Law-Enforcement Officials' Views of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification

Tewksbury¹,

Mustaine

2013

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Richard Tewksbury is a professor of justice administration at the University of Louisville. He is former editor of theAmerican Journal of Criminal Justice and Justice Quarterly. His research focuses on issues of sex offender policies, criminal justice system actors' attitudes and responses to offenders and institutional corrections. Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her research centres on issues of sex offender policy, criminal justice scholars' professional attitudes and experiences, and officials' responses to child sexual abuse. ABSTRACT Little is known about how criminal justice officials perceive the efficacy and scope of sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) procedures. This study examines the attitudes regarding SORN among a sample of law enforcement agency supervisors/managers using a survey methodology and the Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders (CATSO) scale. Results show that law enforcement officials tend to hold harsh views about sex offenders. Additionally, the CATSO appears to be an efficient way of categorising the views of law enforcement officials. When considered relative to other populations, law enforcement officials appear to hold views similar to college students, and in contrast to other criminal justice officials.

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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Community Notification and Registration: Do the Best Intentions Predict the Best Practices?

Cited by 67 publications

References 13 publications

Examining Factors That Predict Public Concern About the Collateral Consequences of Sex Crime Policy

Examining Factors That Predict Public Concern About the Collateral Consequences of Sex Crime Policy

Can Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) Work in the United States? Preliminary Results From a Randomized Experiment in Minnesota

Law-Enforcement Officials' Views of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification

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