Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sex Crimes

Criminal Law

: Sex Crimes

New Sex Offender Registration Scholarship

By Corey Rayburnyung

Thanks to Sentencing Law & Policy, we see a new article on SSRN by Amanda Agan (of the University of Chicago Department of Economics) entitled Sex Offender Registries: Fear Without Function? From the abstract:I use three separate datasets and designs to determine whether sex offender registries are effective. First, state-level panel data is used to determine whether sex offender registries or public access to them decreases the rate of rape and other sexual abuse. Second, a dataset which contains information on the subsequent arrests of sex offenders released from prison in 1994 in 15 states is used to determine if registries reduce the recidivism rate of offenders required to register compared with those who do not. Finally, I combine data on locations of crimes in Washington, D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).