“…Furthermore, many community notification laws treat sexual offenders as a homogenous group, when in fact they differ in important ways, including their individual levels of recidivism risk (Lussier & Gress, 2014;Sample & Bray, 2006). Finally, requiring sex offenders to register with the state for long periods (or a lifetime) implies that they are stable in their offending over time and cannot be rehabilitated, though empirical evidence does not support these assumptions (Hargreaves & Francis, 2014;Lussier & Blokland, 2014). Rather, as a group, sex offenders recidivate relatively less than other criminals (Hanson & Bussiere, 1998;Hanson & Morton-Bourgon, 2005;Langan, Smith, & Durose, 2003), and are not likely to specialize in sexual offending (Jennings, Zgoba, Donner, Henderson, & Tewksbury, 2014).…”