“The Book” on registration laws becoming available for purchase.
Professors Wayne Logan (Florida State University School of Law) and JJ Prescott (University of Michigan School of Law) have edited the textbook on sex offense registration laws, literally. The two professors, along with other professionals; Andrew J. Harris, Scott M. Walfield, Alissa R. Ackerman, Lisa L. Sample, Kelly Socia, Amanda Agan, Jill S. Levenson, and Elizazeth J. Letourneau, have written “Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws, An Empirical Evaluation” to serve as an academic textbook on the subject.
Description: Despite being in existence for over a quarter century, costing multiple millions of dollars and affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals, sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws have yet to be subject to a book-length treatment of their empirical dimensions – their premises, coverage, and impact on public safety. This volume, edited by Wayne Logan and J.J. Prescott, assembles the leading researchers in the field to provide an in-depth look at what have come to be known as ‘Megan’s Laws’, offering a social science-based analysis of one of the most important, and controversial, criminal justice system initiatives undertaken in modern times.
Ordering Information: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/criminal-law/sex-offender-registration-and-community-notification-laws-empirical-evaluation?format=HB#bookPeople
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To stay in context I believe this book is being put out there as a text book for college not causual reading.
Does it come in large print, simple words, and with colored pictures for legislatures, et al, to read and understand easily enough the ramifications of these draconian laws?
$110 is textbook price for a textbook as I recall from college but there is a need for a central book to note and provide this info.
I’ll check out Derek’s too. More than one thorough source is always good to have on hand.
I would wait until the price comes down to something reasonable, but the laws it discusses will probably be obsolete by then.