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A new note on sex offender residency restrictions

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post at CO, I see a new note on sex offender residency restrictions from the Northwestern University Law Review.  This piece ? Sarah E. Agudo, Irregular Passion: The Unconstitutionality and Inefficacy of Sex Offender Residency Laws, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 307 (2008) (available here) ? has these passages in its introduction:Sex offenders are among the most hated members of our society.... In recent years, laws protecting society from these offenders have grown increasingly broad; the restrictions have become more severe and applicable to more people.  Residency laws, which dictate where sex offenders can live upon release from prison or while on parole, exemplify this trend.  Twenty-two states in the United States currently have some form of residency law that restricts where sex offenders can live...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).