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
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.
For those interested, this book is also available as a Kindle book on Amazon.com for $88 (make sure to shop at smile.amazon.com to support Vivante Espero). It will probably be available as a cheaper e-book by year’s end.
I’ll send my $110.00 for the purchase of this book to FAC instead to help fund the litigation against these laws.
Here’s a link to the first 14 pages of the book called “the front matter”…
https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/20020/frontmatter/9781108420020_frontmatter.pdf
For those of you that can’t afford $110 and need a summary of the laws of all 50 states, my book is available for free on my website (or $12.95 on Amazon)
Speaking of Books,
Ron Book claims there are only 555 “unsheltered” homeless in Miami-Dade, according to the Miami Times article dated April 13th.
This morning, I made a count of the homeless Registered Citizen population of Miami-Dade county (i.e., persons listed on the state “sex offense registry”). Of the 1300 Registered Persons listed as living in Miami-Dade County (not counting dead, deported, incarcerated, or absconded Registrants), 432 are listed as “transient.” That means 33.2% (roughly a third) of Miami-Dade’s homeless population are homeless. Even this number is a misnomer, as 107 Registrants are listed at 18201 SW 12th St., Miami, FL 33194-2700, i.e., the Krome Detention Center. (Despite adjusting the search to exclude incarcerated persons, some were still listed during the search. If adjusted to remove those at Krome, the homeless registrant population is 36.2%.
If Ron Book’s claim of 555 unsheltered homeless number is to be believed, then Ron Book is directly responsible for 77.8% of the unsheltered homeless issue in Miami.
That may also be worth discussing. Feel free to double check my research.
Derek, you are loved and appreciated.
$110.00? Really? Well I doubt there will be many of us buying a copy of that.
I will definitely have this textbook on hand.
It is well worth the $110.00.