title: Prospects for the international migration of U.S. sex offender registration and community notification laws.
abstract: Sex offender registration and community notification laws have proved enormously popular in the U.S. This is so even though the avowed sexual violence preventive benefits of the laws remain largely untested and unproven; indeed, it remains an open question whether the laws actually have anti-therapeutic and criminogenic effect. This article examines why this data deficit has characterized the social and political evolution of the laws and considers the prospects for their migration to other nations.
authors.forename: Wayne A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D011057:Politics; D011639:Public Opinion; D011640:Public Policy; D012042:Registries; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States