Sex offender housing and mobility: New research

A new study looks at the residential patterns of registered sex offenders 15 years after arrest. The issue: Numerous state and local governments have adopted policies restricting where registered sex offenders can live. Often, they are prohibited from living within a certain distance of a school, daycare center, park or other place where children gather. In some parts of the country,

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Textbook on Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders to be released

Dr. Donna Vandiver, Dr. Jeremy Braithwaite and Dr. Mark Stafford wrote the book on sex offenders. Literally. A new textbook written by these academics, titled “Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders: Theory, Research and Realities”, will be released later this month. The textbook, which was written with students in mind, sets out to correct a lot of the misconceptions and “commonsense”

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State of Washington Sex Offender Policy Board Recommends Privatizing the Registry

The State of Washington Office of Financial Management’s Sex Offender Policy Board has recommended exempting their sex offender registry from public disclosure. Among the other recommendations in the 168 page report is the following: “In December 2015, the SOPB issued a unanimous recommendation that sex offender registration information should be exempt from public disclosure (that RCW 4.24.550 is/should be an

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