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PBSO Launches New Program to Manage Sex Offenders, Not Just Exile Them

By "eAdvocate"

10-13-2010 Florida: In a world where residency restrictions exile convicted sex offenders to live under bridges and on park benches, a glimmer of sanity has emerged. Working with psychology professors at Lynn University, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has launched a new program to individually assess the threat posed by each of the 890 registered sex offenders in the county and monitor them accordingly. Now, instead of just making sure an offender sleeps at the correct address, far from the nearest church or school, police officers will have more information about which ex-cons are most likely to commit another crime. "Not all sex offenders are equally dangerous. Not everybody who's arrested for a sex crime is a pedophile," says Jill Levenson, an associate professor of human services at Lynn University who has treated sex offenders for years and is helping to run the program...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 13, 2010 (boomark / email).