Learn the Facts and Statistics with Current Reports, Studies and Books:

Below is a list of Reports, Studies and Books that conclude the proliferation of “Sex Offender” Legislation over the past 20 years in America that was meant to memorialize an assaulted, murdered or missing child has largely failed.

The Residency Restrictions, GPS Monitoring, stigmatizing and publically posting Juveniles and first time offenders has NOT, reduced Sex Offender recidivism rates, provided safety, healing or support for victims, reflected the scientific research on sexual victimization, offending and risk or provided successful strategies for prevention. These reports and books also confirm the real recidivism rates nationally for sexual assaults are 3.5-8.5%, NOT the 70, 80, 90 and 100% that State and Federal Politicians and the media continue to claim.

Books:

Sex Offender Registries, Policies and Restrictions/Adam Walsh Act and SORNA/Sexual Abuse/Treatment:

Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?: Theory, Policy and Practice Explored (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice) , Editors: Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe and John Deering, Available June 2012
Sexual Offenses and Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Policy by Karen J. Terry, Available May 2012
Sex Friends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America, by Chrysanthi Leon, 2011
(*We Highly Recommend)
Sex Panic and the Punitive State, by Roger N. Lancaster 2011
(*We Highly Recommend)
Justice Perverted: Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy by Charles Patrick Ewing, 2011
(*We Highly Recommend)
Convicted Sex Offenders: Restrictions and Challenges (Law, Crime and Law Enforcement) Editor: Joanne D. Rimpell, 2011
UNPRECEDENTED: Challenges in America How Sex Offender Laws are Impacting Our Nation by J.B. Haralson and J.R. Cordeiro, 2011
Increased Surveillance of Sex Offenders: Impacts on Recidivism (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) by Lisa Williams-Taylor, 2011
The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders: A Comparative Study by Terry Thomas, 2011
Consensual Consequences: A True Story of Life with a “Registered Sex Offender” by Lynn Gilmore, 2011
Rehabilitating Sexual Offenders: A Strength-based Approach by William L. Marshall, Liam E. Marshall, Geris A. Serran and Matt D. O'Brien, 2011
Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys by Richard Laws & Tony Ward, 2010
Forgiveness and Child Abuse: Would YOU Forgive? by Lois Einhorn and Arun Gandhi, 2010
How I Became a Registered Sex Offender by Eric Robert Smith, 2010
A Motion For Innocence: ...And Justice for All? By Shaun Webb, 2010
Sex Offender Laws: Failed Polices, New Directions, by Dr. Richard Wright, 2009
(*We Highly Recommend)
Knowledge as Power: Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America, by Wayne Logan, 2009
The Modern Day Leper, by Rev. Dick Witherow, 2009
Perverts and Predators: The Making of Sexual Offending Laws, by Laura J. Zilney & Lisa A. Zilney, 2009
Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution? by Laura J. Zilney & Lisa A. Zilney, 2009
Sex Offenders: Identification, Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Legal Issues by Fabian M. Saleh, Albert J. Grudzinskas, John M. Bradford & Daniel J. Brodsky, 2009
The Labeling of Sex Offenders: The Unintended Consequences of the Best Intentioned Public Policies by Sean Maddan, 2008
America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust, and Liberty (Sex, Love, and Psychology) by Marty Klein, 2008
Current Controversies Series: Sex Offenders and Public Policy Edited by Lynn Zott, 2007
(*We Highly Recommend)
The Shaming of Sexual Offenders: Risk, Retribution and Reintegration by Anne Marie McAlinden, 2007
Sex Offenses and the Men Who Commit Them: An Assessment of Sex Offenders on Probation by Michelle Meloy, 2006
The Socially Skilled Child Molester: Differentiating the Guilty from the Falsely Accused by Carla Van Dam, 2006
The World Calls Me Sex Offender, by James Clagen, 2006
Sex Crime (Crime and Society Series) by Terry Thomas, 2005
Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders by John Q. La Fond, 2005
Sex Offenders in the Community: Managing and Reducing the Risks (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series) by Amanda Matravers, 2005
Sexual Offenses and Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Policy by Karen J. Terry, 2005
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America, by Philip Jenkins, 2004

Adolescents/Juveniles:

Age of Consent (At Issue Series) by Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen, 2010
Juvenile Sexual Offending: Causes, Consequences, and Correction by Gail Ryan, Tom F. Leversee and Sandy Lane, 2010
The Perversion of Youth: Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders by Frank DiCataldo, 2009
(*We Highly Recommend)
An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending by Franklin E. Zimring, 2009
Juvenile Sex Offenders: What the Public Needs to Know by Camille Gibson and Donna M. Vandiver, 2008
Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality Monographic Separates) by Vern L Bullough, 2005
Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States by Carolyn E. Cocca, 2004

On-Line Safety/Internet Stings/Child Pornography:

Understanding and Preventing Online Sexual Exploitation of Children Editors: Ethel Quayle and Kurt M. Ribisl, April 2012
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire by Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam, May 2011
Justice Perverted: Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy by Charles Patrick Ewing, 2011
In the Shadows of the Net, by Patrick Carnes, 2009
Internet Child Pornography and the Law: National and International Responses, by Yaman Akdeniz 2008
Child Pornography: Crime, Computers and Society by Ian O'Donnell and Claire Milner, 2007
Viewing Child Pornography on the Internet: Understanding the Offence, Managing the Offender, Helping the Victims by Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor, 2005
Child Pornography: An Internet Crime by Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor, 2003
Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography Online by Philip Jenkins, 2001

Civil Commitment/SVP’s:

Justice Perverted: Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy by Charles Patrick Ewing, 2011
Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State by Eric S. Janus, 2009
It's Okay We're Only Sex Offenders, by Alan Rigby, 2008

America’s Justice System/Prosecutors/Restorative Justice:

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong by Brandon L. Garrett, 2011
Earl Washington (Virginia) http://www.exonerate.org/other-local-victories/earl-washington/
Sex Panic and the Punitive State, by Roger N. Lancaster 2011
One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty by Paul Rosenzwieg and Brian W. Walsh, 2010
Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality by Sylvia Clute, 2010
After several years as a trial lawyer, Sylvia Clute became disillusioned with the legal system and began her search for a better way. She founded, led, and served as an advisor to numerous community and statewide initiatives. This is her first work of nonfiction. She is also the President of Restorative Justice Association of Virginia. www.sylviaclute.com
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor by Angela J. Davis, 2009
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach, 2009
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey A. Silverglate, 2009
The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice by Paul Craig Roberts, 2008
The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four by Tom Wells and Richard Leo, 2008
Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Michael Tonry, 2006
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen & Scott Turow, 2005
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times, by Dorothy Rabinowitz, 2004
Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything by Gene Healy, 2004
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer, 2003
The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America by Dr. Katherine A. Beckett & Theodore Sasson, 2003
Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case, by Edgar W. Butler, 2001
Witch Hunt: A True Story of Social Hysteria and Abused Justice by Kathryn Lyon 1998
Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy by Ronald Huff, Dr. Arye Rattner & Edward Sagarin, 1996
Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted by Martin Yant, 1991

Panic, Fear, Crisis, the Media and Creating Villains/Scapegoats

Sex Panic and the Punitive State, by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011
Fearmonger: Stephen Harper's Tough-on-Crime Agenda, by Paula Mallea, 2011
Retributivism Has a Past: Has It a Future? (Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy), by Michael Tonry, 2011
Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice by Ray Surette, 2010
The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain, by Daniel Gardner, 2009
Critical Readings: Moral Panics and the Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies), by Chas Critcher, 2006
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America, by Philip Jenkins, 2004
Media Mythmakers by Benjamin Radford 2003
Sex Crime and the Media: Sex Offending and the Press in a Divided Society by Chris Greer 2003
Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Social Problems and Social Issues), by David Altheide, 2002
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner, 2000
Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance, by Erich Goode and Ben-Yehuda, 1994
Sex Abuse Hysteria: Salem Witch Trials Revisited, by Richard A. Gardner, 1990

Repressed, Recovered and False Memories

My Lie: A True Story of False Memory by Meredith Maran, 2010
A Motion For Innocence: ...And Justice for All? By Shaun Webb, 2010
Spectral Evidence: The Ramona Case: Incest, Memory, And Truth On Trial In Napa Valley, by Moira Johnston, 1998
Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome, by Robert A. Baker, 1998
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria, by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters , 1996
Victims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives, by Mark Pendergrast, 1996
The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham, 1996
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory, by Lawrence Wright, 1998
True Stories of False Memories, by Eleanor Goldstein and Kevin Farmer, 1993
Sex Abuse Hysteria: Salem Witch Trials Revisited, by Richard A. Gardner, 1990

DVD’s:

Witch Hunt, Narrated by Sean Penn www.witchhuntmovie.com

Reports & Studies:

Sex Offender Registries, Policies and Restrictions/Adam Walsh Act and SORNA/Recidivism/Sexual Abuse and Violence/Treatment/Prisons/Criminal Justice:

Failure-to-Register Laws and Public Safety: An Examination of Risk Factors and Sex Offense Recidivism by Offense Recidivism by Levenson, Sandler and Freeman, April 2012:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22468761
Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America by Cody Mason The Sentencing Project, January 2012 http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Too_Good_to_be_True.pdf
The Invisible Man: How the Sex Offender Registry Results in Social Death by Elizabeth Berenguer Megale, October 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1938397
Balanced Justice: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Criminal Justice Policy by Jennifer Rosenberg, October 2011: http://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/balanced-justice/
Criminal Victimization, 2010 by U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 2011:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv10.pdf
(Sex Offenses are only 1% of ALL crimes, but when it comes to the financial costs to the taxpayers of mandatory minimum and extremely long prison sentences plus the registration and lifetime monitoring it has to be in the top of the most expensive crimes. Even though the rate to re-offend is the lowest.)
Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Sex Offenses: http://www.ussc.gov/Legislative_and_Public_Affairs/Congressional_Testimony_and_Reports/Mandatory_Minimum_Penalties/20111031_RtC_PDF/Chapter_10.pdf
The Evolution of Unconstitutionality in Sex Offender Registration Laws by Catherine L. Carpenter, August 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1916726
Ten-Step Guide to Transforming Probation Departments to Reduce Recidivism: The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, August 2011: http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/documents/0000/1150/A_Ten-Step_Guide_to_Transforming_Probation_Departments_to_Reduce_Recidivism.pdf
100,000 Sex Offenders Missing . . . or Are They? Deconstruction of an Urban Legend by Jill S. Levenson and Andrew J. Harris July 2011: http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/07/14/0887403411415398.abstract
From Innocent Boys to Dirty Old Men: Why the Sex Offender Registry Fails Our Children by Elizabeth Berenguer Megale, June 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1857045
Down to the Wire, June 2011: As the deadline approaches to comply with federal rules on sex offenders, some states are saying “no thanks.” by Donna Lyons National Conference of State Legislature’s Criminal Justice Program http://www.ncsl.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=j9v-XfmR8Wg=&tabid=23041
DC Council Testimony on Bill 19-255, Sex Offender Registration Amendment Act, Justice Policy Institute, June 2011: http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/2604
Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies, Justice Policy Institute, June 2011: http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/2614
Who are the People in your Neighborhood? A Descriptive Analysis of Individuals on Public Sex Offender Registries by Alissa R. Ackerman, Andrew J. Harris Jill S. Levenson and Kristen Zgoba, May 2011: http://tinyurl.com/5w5c2dy
Inevitable Recidivism —The Origin and Centrality of an Urban Legend by Tamara Rice Lave, April 2011: http://www.law.miami.edu/facadmin/pdf/tlave/IJLP797.pdf
Sex Offender Policies in an Era of Zero Tolerance What does effectiveness really mean? by Jill S. Levenson, April 2011: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00704.x/abstract
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers: A Reasoned Approach: Reshaping Sex Offender Policy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse, by Joan Tabachnick and Alisa Klein, April 2011: http://www.atsa.com/pdfs/ppReasonedApproach.pdf
What is Smart Sex Offender Policy? by Karen J. Terry, April 2011: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00707.x/abstract
Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function? By Amanda Agan, September 2010:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbWFuZGF5YWdhbnxneDo2NGY4NTkxODlhY2I0OWIz
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies for Reducing Sexual Violence Against Women by Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Jill S. Levenson, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Debajyoti Sinha, and Kevin S. Armstrong September 2010: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231989.pdf
PEW National Research of Public Attitudes on Crime and Punishment, September 2010: View PDF
Societal Reaction to Sex Offenders: A Review of the Origins and Results of the Myths Surrounding their Crimes and Treatment Amenability by James F. Quinna, Craig J. Forsythb & Carla Mullen-Quinnc, August 2010: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639620490431147#preview
Rethinking Proportionality Under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause By John F. Stinneford, August 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1660642
The Adam Walsh Act and the Failed Promise of Administrative Federalism by Wayne A. Logan, July 2010: http://groups.law.gwu.edu/LR/ArticlePDF/78-5-Logan.pdf
How to Safely Reduce Prison Populations and Support People Returning to Their Communities by Justice Policy Institute, June 2010: http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/52303886/231729725/name/How
The Effects of Failure to Register on Sex Offender Recidivism by Minnesota Department of Corrections, May 2010: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/37/5/520.abstract
Prison Count 2010, State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years: The Pew Center on the States, April 2010: http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/Prison_Count_2010.pdf?n=880

April 2010

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580538

Public Safety, Individual Liberty and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws, by Melissa Hamilton, April 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580016
Prospective Actuarial Risk Assessment: A Comparison of Five Risk Assessment Instruments in Different Sexual Offender Subtypes, by Martin Rettenberger, Anna Matthes, Douglas P. Boer and Reinhard Eher, March 2010: http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/54/2/169
Fact Sheet on The Obama Administration’s 2011 Budget: More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies, Justice Policy Institute, February 2010: Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: JPI found that while the $500+ million proposed for this program can be used for prevention and education, in reality most money goes to law enforcement. Research has shown that increased law enforcement results in the least-effective solution-higher drug imprisonment rates-while this money could be more effectively spent on community drug treatment. Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Funding: The Administration is requesting $600 million in hiring and retention grants for police officers, purportedly anticipating a rise in crime as the economy recovers. Such increased policing is likely to have a concentrated impact on communities of color, who are already disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system. JPI suggests this money would be better spent on creating jobs, housing, and treatment programs for increased public safety. Adam Walsh Act: Having failed to bully states with threats of funding cuts if they fail to comply with the Adam Walsh Act, the federal government is adding a "carrot" to the "stick": $20 million to help states implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). A number of reports have found little correlation between the use of sex offender registries and keeping children safe. In addition, broad compliance with SORNA will increase the number of people who cannot meet their basic needs (housing, employment), which is a major risk factor for recidivism. Especially hard-hit are youth on registries that may be barred from pro-social activities that can have a positive impact on improving their lives and on public safety. Increased Funding for Prisons: Increased funding for prison beds will likely lead to higher prison populations and expenses without significantly improving public safety. In fact, most states are reducing prison populations due to the current economic crisis and are seeking more effective solutions. http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=87.htm
Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4), 2004-2009, US Department of Health and Human Services, January 2010: The Rate of Sexual Abuse is DOWN 44%! http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/abuse_neglect/natl_incid/index.html#reports
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? By JJ Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff, January, 2010: http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jrockoff/papers/prescott%20rockoff%20meglaw%20jan%2010.pdf
Denying Defendants the Benefit of a Resonable Doubt: Federal Rule of Evidence 609 and Past Sex Crime Convictions by Julia T. Rickert, 2010: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/backissues/v100/n1/1001_213.Rickert.pdf
Collateral Damage: Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders by Jill Levenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Services at Lynn University Published in (2009) issue of American Journal of Criminal Justice: Collateral Damage - Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders.pdf
Implementing the Adam Walsh Act’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Provisions: A Survey of the States by Andrew J. Harris and Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky, September 2009: http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/21/2/202.short
The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders, by Corey Rayburn Yung August 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1456042
How Safe Are Trick-or-Treaters? An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween. by Mark Chaffin, Jill Levenson, Elizabeth Letourneau, and Paul Stern, July 2009: How Safe are Trick or Treaters.pdf
Perceptions and Coping With Punishment: How Registered Sex Offenders Respond to Stress, Internet Restrictions, and the Collateral Consequences of Registration by Richard Tewksbury and Kristen M. Zgoba, June 2009: http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/54/4/537.abstract
Failure to Register: An Empirical Analysis of Sex Offense Recidivism, by Jill Levenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Services at Lynn University, April 2009: Failure to Register; An Empirical Analysis of Sex Offense Recidivism.pdf
Perpetual Panic, by Michael O’Hear Marquette University Law School, March 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1357484
Lifers on the Outside, Sex Offenders and Disintegrative Shaming, by Monica L. P. Robbers Marymount University, February 2009: http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/53/1/5.abstract
Criminal Justice Federalism and National Sex Offender Policy, by Wayne A. Logan January 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1323405
Life Before the Modern Sex Offender Statutes, by Deborah W. Denno, Fordham University School of Law, January 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1102663
The Adam Walsh Act: A False Sense of Security or an Effective Public Policy Initiative? by Naomi J. Freeman and Jeffrey C. Sandler, 2009: http://cjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0887403409338565v1
A Crooked Picture: Re-Framing the Problem of Child Sexual Abuse by Eric Janus, 2009: http://open.wmitchell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&context=facsch
Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation by Erica R. Meiners, 2009: http://www.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/_ermeiner/About_Me_files/NIMeiners.pdf
Sex Offender Treatment: Reconciling Criminal Justice Priorities and Therapeutic Goals by Mary Ann Farkas & Gale Miller, December 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641267
Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function? by Amanda Agan, December 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_ID=1437098
Brandishing the Mark of Cain: Defects in the Adam Walsh Act by Joseph L. Lester, December 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641271
American and Canadian Approaches to Sex Offenders: A Study of the Politics of Dangerousness by Michael Petrunik, Lisa Murphy, & J. Paul Fedoroff, December 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641272
From Wetterling to Walsh: The Growth of Federalization in Sex Offender Policy by Richard G. Wright, December 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641273
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Commerce Clause by Corey Rayburn Yung, December 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1305379
Registering Harm: How Sex Offender Registries Fail Youth and Communities, Justice Policy Institute, November 2008: http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=80.htm
Fact Sheets Examine Impact of Sex Offender Registries: Justice Policy Institute, September 2008: http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1811&smID=1588&ssmID=74.htm
The Pursuit of Safety: Sex Offender Policy in the United States, Vera Institute of Justice, September 2008: http://www.vera.org/content/pursuit-safety-sex-offender-policy-united-states
Banishment of Sex Offenders: Individual Liberties, National Rights and the Dormant Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, and Alternatives, by Shelley Ross Saxer, Pepperdine University, September 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1266831
One of These Laws is Not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions, by Corey Rayburn Yung, August 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1193871
The Sex Offender Register: A Case Study in Function Creep, by Terry Thomas, Leeds Metropolitan University, June 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1142362
Prosecutions Under the Adam Walsh Act: Is America Keeping Its Promise? by Emily A. White, May 2008: http://law.wlu.edu/deptimages/Law%20Review/65-4White.pdf
Still Time to Rethink the Misguided Approach of the Sex Offender Notification Act (SORNA) by Amy Baron-Evans, May 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641246
The Adam Walsh Act: Scarlet Letter, by Lara Geer Farley, April 2008: http://washburnlaw.edu/wlj/47-2/articles/geerfarley-lara.pdf
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? by J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff, February 2008: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1100584
Sex Offender as Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within by John Douard, 2008: http://a.nyls.edu/user_files/1/3/4/17/49/195/200/Binder2.pdf
Sex Offender Laws in America: Can Panic-Driven Legislation ever Create Safer Societies? by Michelle L. Meloy, Yustina Saleh and Nancy Wolff, December 2007: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a788244670?words=sex,offender
No Easy Answers: Human Rights Watch Study, September 2007: http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0907/
Be They Fish or Not Fish: The Fishy Registration of Nonsexual Offenders, by Ofer Raban, University of Oregon, August 2007: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1009274
Megan’s Law and Its Impact on Community Re-Entry for Sex Offenders, by Jill S. Levenson, July 2007: www.nacdl.org/sl_docs.nsf/issues/SexOffender_attachments/$FILE/Lev_Megan.pdf
Report of the Sex Offender Policy Task Force: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, February 2007: (View PDF)
What Will it Cost States to Comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act? (State by State) by Justice Policy Institute http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-08_FAC_SORNACosts_JJ.pdf
Myths and Facts about Sexual Offenders: Implications for Treatment and Public Policy by Timothy Fortney, Jill Levenson, Yolanda Brannon and Juanita N. Baker 2007: http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/55.html
An Examination of the Degree to Which Sex Offenders Kill by Lisa L. Sample, September 2006: http://cjr.sagepub.com/content/31/3/230.abstract
There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws by Leigh L. Linden and Jonah E. Rockoff , May 2006: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=905510
The Vilification of Sex Offenders: Do Laws Targeting Sex Offenders Increase Recidivism and Sexual Violence? by Hollida Wakefield Institute for Psychological Therapies, 2006: http://ccoso.org/Vilification.pdf
The Effect of Megan’s Law on Sex Offender Reintegration by Jill S. Levenson and Leo P. Cotter, February 2005: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/21/1/49
Making Outcasts out of Outlaws: The Unconstitutionality of Sex Offender Registration and Criminal Alien Detention Source: Harvard Law Review Association, Vol. 117, No. 8 June 2004: Making Outcasts out of Outlaws
Avoiding Garbage in Sex Offender Re-Offense Risk Assessment by Gregory Declue, April 2003: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a904137272?words=sex,offender
10 Myths and Facts about Sex Offenders: CSOM, August 2000: http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
A Study in “Actuarial Justice”: Sex Offender Classification Practice and Procedure by Wayne A. Logan, April 2000: http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/bclrarticles/3(2)/logan.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994 Recidivism Rates for Sex Offenders- 5.3% and for Child Victimizers- 3.3% http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#recidivism
Revising the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Our Best Hope for Dealing with Sex-Abuse Hysteria in the United States, Richard A. Gardner, 1993: The 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act has had unforeseen negative consequences in terms of encouraging false allegations of sex abuse. In order to receive federal funding, states had to pass legislation that mandated specific persons to report suspected cases of child abuse and granted immunity to the reporters. http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume5/j5_1_3.htm

Adolescents/Juveniles:

Romeo and Juliet: The 21st Century Juvenile Sex Offenders by Chauntelle R. Wood, March 2012:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021262
Juvenile Sex Offender Laws Inconsistent, National Juvenile Justice Network, November 2011:
http://www.njjn.org/article/report-juvenile-sex-offender-laws-inconsistent
A Snapshot of Juvenile Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws: A Survey of the United States by Nicole Pittman and Quyen Nguyen, 2011:
http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital_library/SNAPSHOT_web10-28.pdf
The Case for Modifying Juvenile Sex Offender Registry Requirements in Delaware, 2011:
http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital_library/DE_Juvenile-Sex-Offender-Research-Brief_SURJ_7-30-11.pdf
2011 Associated Press-MTV Digital Abuse Study: Part 2 Teen Sexting and Suicide http://www.athinline.org/pdfs/MTV-AP_2011_Research_Study-Exec_Summary.pdf
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and the Law by Brittany Logino Smith
Glen A. Kercher - Crime Victims’ Institute • Criminal Justice Center • Sam Houston State University
March 2011: http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/documents/Adolescent_Behavior_3.1.11.pdf
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Requirements Deter Juvenile Sex Crimes? By Medical University of South Carolina, May 2010: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/37/5/553.abstract
Net-widening in Delaware: The Overuse of Registration and Residential Treatment for Youth Who Commit Sex Offenses, by Chrysanthi S. Leon, David L. Burton and Dana Alvare, February 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557398
Teens and Sexting by Pew Research Center December 2009: http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/teens-and-sexting.pdf
Youth Sex Offenses Fact and Fiction, Justice Policy Institute, February 2009: http://www.nacdl.org/sl_docs.nsf/issues/sexoffender_attachments/$FILE/JPI_Fact.pdf
Effects of Sex Offender Registration Policies on Juvenile Justice Decision Making by Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Debajyoti Sinha and Kevin Armstrong, January 2009: http://sax.sagepub.com/content/21/2/149.abstract
The Council of State Governments Resolution in Opposition of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as it Applies to Juvenile Offenders, December 2008: http://csg-web.csg.org/policy/pubsafety/documents/CSGResolutionOpposingSORNA.pdf
How Risky Are Social Networking Sites? A Comparison of Places Online Where Youth Sexual Solicitation and Harassment Occurs by Michele L. Ybarra and Kimberly J. Mitchell, January 2008: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/121/2/e350.short
Justice Served? The High Cost of Juvenile Sex Offender Registration by Phoebe Geer, 2008: http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/dvmnhlt27&div=12&id=&page=
The Ethics of American Youth – Josephson Institute - 2008 Summary Survey of Teens Reveals Entrenched Habits of Dishonesty, Stealing, Lying, and Cheating Rates Climb to Alarming Rates: http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/index.html
Juvenile Sex Offender Recidivism Rates in Virginia: 10 Year Follow-Up, July 2005:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/sebu/2005/00000017/00000003/00005061

Sexting:

2011 Associated Press-MTV Digital Abuse Study: Part 2 Teen Sexting and Suicide http://www.athinline.org/pdfs/MTV-AP_2011_Research_Study-Exec_Summary.pdf
Sexting: A Typology by Janis Wolak & David Finkelhor, March 2011:
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV231_Sexting%20Typology%20Bulletin_4-6-11_revised.pdf
Sexting or Self-Produced Child Pornography? The Dialogue Continues – Structured Prosecutorial Discretion within a Multidisciplinary Response by Mary Leary, Spring 2010:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1657007
Prosecuting the Victim: The Legal Impact of the Sexting Trend by Joseph Holaska, April 2010:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1596866
'Sexting' and the First Amendment by John A. Humbach, 2010:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1470819
Teens and Sexting by Pew Research Center December 2009:
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/teens-and-sexting.pdf
Virginia Department of Education: Division of Technology and Career Education – Sexting Implications for Schools, October 2009:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/technology/info_briefs/sexting.pdf

Residency Restrictions/Employment Restrictions/Public Notification:

The Need to Debate the Fate of Sex Offender Community Notification Laws by Lisa L. Sample, April 2011: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00706.x/abstract
Measuring the Impact of Sex Offender Notification on Community Adoption of Protective Behaviors by Rachel Bandy, April 2011: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00705.x/abstract
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies for Reducing Sexual Violence Against Women by Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Jill S. Levenson, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Debajyoti Sinha, and Kevin S. Armstrong September 2010: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231989.pdf
A Geospatial Analysis of the Impact of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Two New York Counties by Jacqueline A. Berenson and Paul S. Appelbaum, June 2010: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2777403027646k4/fulltext.pdf
Assessing the Impact of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification On Sex-Offending Trajectories by Richard Tewksbury Wesley G. Jennings, May 2010: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/37/5/570.abstract
The Effects of Sex Offender Registration and Notification on Judicial Decisions, by Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Jill S. Levenson, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Debajyoti Sinha, April 2010: http://cjr.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/01/24/0734016809360330.abstract
Public Safety, Individual Liberty and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws, by Melissa Hamilton, April 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580016
Assumptions and Evidence Behind Sex Offender Laws: Registration, Community Notification, and Residence Restrictions by Kelly M. Socia Jr and Janet P. Stamatel, January 2010: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00251.x/abstract
An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Community Notification and Registration: Do the Best Intentions Predict the Best Practices? by Kristen Zgoba, Bonita M. Veysey and Melissa Dalessandro November 2009: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a916567628
Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Limited Effects in New Jersey by Kristen M. Zgoba and Karen Bachar, National Institute of Justice, April 2009: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225402.pdf
Residential Proximity to Schools and Daycare Centers: Influence on sex offense recidivism, An empirical analysis by Jill Levenson, Ph.D., December 2008: Residential proximityto schools and daycare centers.pdf
CRS Report for Congress: Residence Restrictions for Released Sex Offenders, February 2008: http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/CRS_RPT_DomesticViolence_02-05-2008.pdf
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? by J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff, February 2008: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1100584
Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past Present and Future, by Wayne A. Logan, February 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089204
Banishment By a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders by Corey Rayburn Yung, January 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=959847
The Influence of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws in the United States by Jeffery T. Walker, 2008: www.reentry.net/search/attachment.86354
An Era of Human Zoning: Banishing Sex Offender from Communities Through Residence and Work Restrictions, by Amber Leigh Bagley, 2008: http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/journals/elj/57/57.5/Bagley.pdf
When Evidence Is Ignored: Residential Restrictions For Sex Offenders by Richard Tewksbury and Jill Levenson, December 2007: http://www.aca.org/publications/pdf/Tewksbury.pdf
Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: Unintended Consequences and Community Reentry, by Jill S. Levenson, 2007: Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: Unintended Consequences and Community Reentry.pdf
Off to Elba: The Legitimacy of Sex Offender Residence and Employment Restrictions by Joseph L. Lester, 2006: http://www.ccoso.org/library%20articles/Off%20to%20Elba.pdf
Never Going Home: Does it Make Us Safer? Does it Make Sense? Sex Offenders Residency Restrictions and Reforming Risk Management Law by Caleb Durling - The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 97, No. 1 Fall 2006: Never Going Home: Does it Make Us Safer?
The Impact of Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: 1,000 feet from Danger or One Step from Absurd, by Jill Levenson and Leo Cotter, 2005:
http://www.nacdl.org/sl_docs.nsf/issues/sexoffender_attachments/$FILE/Levenson-1000feet_rule.pdf

On-Line Safety/Internet Stings/Child Pornography:

From Peer-to-Peer Networks to Cloud Computing: How Technology Is Redefining Child Pornography Laws by Audrey Rogers, February 2012:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2006664
The Child Pornography Crusade and its Net Widening Effect by Melissa Hamilton, August 2011:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1914496
The Efficacy of Severe Child Pornography Sentencing: Empirical Validity or Political Rhetoric? by Melissa Hamilton, October 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1689507
Inequitable Sentencing for Possession of Child Pornography: A Failure To Distinguish Voyeurs from Pederasts by Jesse P. Basbaum, May 2010: http://www.uchastings.edu/hlj/archive/vol61/Basbaum_61-HLJ-1281.pdf
Disentangling Child Pornography from Child Sex Abuse, by Carissa Byrne Hessick, March 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577961
The Consumption of Internet Child Pornography and Violent and Sex Offending, BMC Psychiatry, July 2009: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/43
Deconstructing the Myth of Careful Study: A Primer on the Flawed Progression of the Child Pornography Guidelines, by Troy Stabenow, January 2009:
http://www.fd.org/pdf_lib/child%20porn%20july%20revision.pdf
Online Predators and Their Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention and Treatment, by Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, Michele L. Ybarra and Kimberly Mitchell, 2008:
http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/articles/online-%E2%80%9Cpredators%E2%80%9D-and-their-victims-myths-realities-and-implications-preventi
Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States, December 2008: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/
Child Pornography Sentencing: The Road Here and the Road Ahead by Ian N. Friedman & Kristina W. Supler, December 2008: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641268
How Risky Are Social Networking Sites? A Comparison of Places Online Where Youth Sexual Solicitation and Harassment Occurs by Michele L. Ybarra and Kimberly J. Mitchell, January 2008: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/121/2/e350.short
Profiling Online Sex Offenders, Cyber-Predators and Pedophiles, By Dr. Kimberly Young, The Center for Internet Addiction Recovery, 2005: Profiling Online Sex Offenders
Sting Operations, Undercover Agents and Entrapment, by Bruce Hay, October 2003:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=469960

Civil Commitment/SVP’s:

JLARC 2011 Civil Commitment Report:
Full report, 202 pages http://jlarc.virginia.gov/meetings/November11/SVP.pdf
Presentation, 90 slides http://jlarc.virginia.gov/meetings/November11/SVPbrf.pdf
Sex Offender Exceptionalism and Preventive Detention by Corey Rayburn Yung, Summer 2011: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6700/is_3_101/ai_n57800205/
Should Having Antisocial Personality Qualify A Rapist For SVP Commitment? by Allen Fances July 2011: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/couchincrisis/content/article/10168/1907150
Sex Offender Commitments: Debunking the Official Narrative and Revealing the Rules-in-Use by Eric S. Janus, May 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1740737
Rethinking the Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders by Fredrick E. Vars, May 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1846809
Office of the Legislative Auditor: State of Minnesota Evaluation Report Summary on Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders, March 2011: http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/pedrep/ccsosum.pdf
Involuntary Civil Commitment Related to Criminal Offenses National District Attorneys Association, December 2010: http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/ncpca_statute_Civil%20Commitment%20Statutes2010.pdf
Pedophilia: An Evaluation of Diagnostic and Risk Prediction Methods By Robin J. Wilson, Jeffrey Abracen, Jan Looman, Janice E. Picheca and Meaghan Ferguson, November 2010: http://sax.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/11/06/1079063210384277.abstract
Preventing Sexual Violence: Setting Principled Constitutional Boundaries on Sex Offender Commitments by Eric S. Janus, June 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1631950
Public Safety, Individual Liberty and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws, by Melissa Hamilton, April 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580016
2009 Virginia State Crime Commission Power Point Presentations:
- Sexually Violent Predator Act and the Static 99 Screening
- Office of the Attorney General-Sexually Violent Predator Presentation
- Sexually Violent Predator Census Growth at the VCBR
The California Sexually Violent Predator Statute, California Coalition for Sexual Offending January 2009: The California Sexually Violent Predator Statute.pdf
Sexual Predator Laws: A Two-Decade Retrospective by Eric S. Janus & Robert A. Prentky, December 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375043
Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators, March 2008: http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/ncpca_statute_civil_committment_sexual_predator_08.pdf
The $62 Million Question: Is Virginia’s New Center to House Sexually Violent Predators Money Well Spent? by Molly Geissenhainer 2008:
http://lawreview.richmond.edu/the-62-million-question/
Understanding and Applying Virginia’s New Statutory Civil Commitment Criteria by Bruce J. Cohen, Richard J. Bonnie, and John Monahan, 2008: http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/OMH-MHReform/080603Criteria.pdf
Sexually Violent Predator Laws and the Liberal state: An Ominous Threat to Individual Liberty, by John Q. La Fond, 2008: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252708000216
Involuntary Civil Commitment in Virginia: Impediments to Emergency Patient Care and Recommendations for Change Virginia College of Emergency Physicians, October 2007: http://www.vacep.org/documents/InvoluntaryCommitmentRecommendationsFINAL.pdf
CRS Report for Congress: Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Persons, July 2007: http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34068_20070702.pdf
Civil Commitment Practices in Virginia Perceptions, Attitudes, and Recommendations A Report for the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, Commonwealth of Virginia, April 2007: http://dls.state.va.us/GROUPS/HWI/meetings/090607/FocusGroup.pdf
Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators in Virginia: Submitted by Angela Axselle and Jill Ryan, Assistant Attorney Generals, March 2007: http://www.govppa.org/newsletter/07_march/index_files/Page538.htm
The Logic of Sexually Violent Predator Status in the United States of America, by Daniel F. Montaldi, 2007: http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/57.html
Loathing the Sinner, Medicalizing the Sin: Why Sexually Violent Predator Statutes are Unjust by John Douard, April 2006: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7W-4MHPHP6-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1046498814&_rerunOrigin=google&_ acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=394edf71700b9b2be904d7052dca6494
Avoiding Garbage in Sex Offender Re-Offense Risk Assessment by Gregory Declue, April 2003: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a904137272?words=sex,offender

In Virginia:

2012 Report: VSP Monitoring of Offenders Required to Comply with the Sex Offender Registry Requirements:
2012 VSP Monitoring of Sex Offenders
JLARC 2011 Civil Commitment Report:
Full report, 202 pages http://jlarc.virginia.gov/meetings/November11/SVP.pdf
Presentation, 90 slides http://jlarc.virginia.gov/meetings/November11/SVPbrf.pdf
2011 VSCC Power Point Presentations / Studies:
- SJR 348: Sex Offender Registry Requirements
  http://leg5.state.va.us/User_db/frmvscc.aspx?ViewId=1857
- HB 2396: Solicitation of a Minor
  http://leg5.state.va.us/User_db/frmvscc.aspx?ViewId=1852
- Reporting of Missing Children (Caylee’s Law)
  http://leg5.state.va.us/User_db/frmvscc.aspx?ViewId=1855
Estimating the Effect of Crime Risk on Property Values and Time on Market: Evidence from Megan’s Law in Virginia by Raymond T. Brastow Longwood College, Bennie D. Waller Jr. Longwood University and Scott Wentland George Mason University, May 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1617711
Virginia State Police: Crime in Virginia Reports, Year by Year: http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Crime_in_Virginia.shtm
Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Reports, Year by Year: http://vsdvalliance.org/secPublications/reports.html
2011 Report: Monitoring of Offenders Required to Comply with the Sex Offender Registry Requirements: 2011 VSP Monitoring of Sex Offenders
2010 Report: Virginia State Police Monitoring of Sex Offenders Required to Comply with the Registry: 2010 VSP Monitoring of Sex Offenders Required to Comply with the Registry.pdf
2009 Virginia State Crime Commission Power Point Presentations:
Virginia Needs and Resources Assessment And State Plan for Sexual Violence Prevention: A Report of the Statewide Sexual Violence Prevention Planning Team, December 2009: http://www.vahealth.org/injury/sexualviolence/documents/2010/pdf/Virginia%20Sexual%20Violence%20Prevention%20State%20Plan.pdf
Virginia Department of Education: Division of Technology and Career Education – Sexting Implications for Schools, October 2009:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/technology/info_briefs/sexting.pdf
Understanding and Applying Virginia’s New Statutory Civil Commitment Criteria by Bruce J. Cohen, Richard J. Bonnie, and John Monahan, 2008: http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/OMH-MHReform/080603Criteria.pdf
The $62 Million Question: Is Virginia’s New Center to House Sexually Violent Predators Money Well Spent? by Molly Geissenhainer 2008:
http://lawreview.richmond.edu/the-62-million-question/
Sexual Violence: Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Fact Sheet 2005-2007: http://www.vahealth.org/Injury/sexualviolence/documents/2009/pdfs/SV_BRFSS%202005-2007.pdf
Involuntary Civil Commitment in Virginia: Impediments to Emergency Patient Care and Recommendations for Change Virginia College of Emergency Physicians, October 2007: http://www.vacep.org/documents/InvoluntaryCommitmentRecommendationsFINAL.pdf
Civil Commitment Practices in Virginia: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Recommendations A Report for the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, Commonwealth of Virginia, April 2007: http://dls.state.va.us/GROUPS/HWI/meetings/090607/FocusGroup.pdf
Juvenile Sex Offender Recidivism Rates in Virginia: 10 Year Follow-Up, July 2005: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/sebu/2005/00000017/00000003/00005061
Senate Document No.18: Response to and Prevention of Sexual Assault in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2004: http://leg2.state.va.us/DLS/h&sdocs.nsf/5c7ff392dd0ce64d85256ec400674ecb/1f03766467d0740b85256ec500553c49?OpenDocument
Estimating the Incidence of Statutory Rape in Virginia by John B. Nezlek, Department of Psychology College of William & Mary, February 2002: http://www.vahealth.org/Injury/sexualviolence/documents/older/statrape.pdf

In the 49 Other States:

Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress provides the 112th Congress, February 2011: http://www.besmartoncrime.org/
A Geospatial Analysis of the Impact of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Two New York Counties by Jacqueline A. Berenson and Paul S. Appelbaum, June 2010: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2777403027646k4/fulltext.pdf
Office of the Legislative Auditor: State of Minnesota Evaluation Report Summary on Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders, March 2011: http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/pedrep/ccsosum.pdf
Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Interim Report, December 2010: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/Senate/commit/c590/c590.InterimReport81.pdf (Pages 13-19 the state of Texas recommends NOT becoming Adam Walsh Act compliant)
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Sex Offender Supervision and GPS Monitoring Task Force, October 2010: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/Sex_Offender_and_GPSTask_Force_Report.pdf
The Effects of Failure to Register on Sex Offender Recidivism by Minnesota Department of Corrections, May 2010: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/37/5/520.abstract
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Requirements Deter Juvenile Sex Crimes? By Medical University of South Carolina, May 2010: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/37/5/553.abstract
Net-widening in Delaware: The Overuse of Registration and Residential Treatment for Youth Who Commit Sex Offenses, by Chrysanthi S. Leon, David L. Burton and Dana Alvare, February 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557398
Putting the Brakes on the Preventive State: Challenging Residency Restrictions on Child Sex Offenders in Illinois under the Ex Post Facto Clause by Michelle Olson, 2010: Putting the Brakes on the Preventative State
Implementing the Adam Walsh Act’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Provisions: A Survey of the States by Andrew J. Harris and Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky, September 2009: http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/21/2/202.short
Washington State Institute for Public Policy: Does Sex Offender Registration and Notification Reduce Crime? June 2009:
http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/09-06-1101.pdf
Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Limited Effects in New Jersey by Kristen M. Zgoba and Karen Bachar, National Institute of Justice, April 2009: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225402.pdf
New Jersey DOC Study on the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration, February 2009: New Jersey DOC Study on the effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration 2.11.09.pdf
The California Sexually Violent Predator Statute, California Coalition for Sexual Offending, January 2009: The California Sexually Violent Predator Statute.pdf
California Sex Offender Management Board Recommends Rejecting the Adam Walsh Act: CSOMB Recommends Rejecting the AWA.pdf
The Council of State Governments Resolution in Opposition of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as it Applies to Juvenile Offenders, December 2008: http://www.csg.org/knowledgecenter/docs/CSG%20Resolution%20Opposing%20SORNA%20Application%20to%20Juvenile%20Offenders.pdf
Megan’s Law: Assessing the Practical and Monetary Efficacy by Kristen Zgoba, New Jersey Department of Corrections, December 2008: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/225370.pdf
Does a Watched Pot Boil?: A Time-Series Analysis of New York State’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law, by Jeffrey C. Sandler, November 2008: http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=2008-18509-003
Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders, An Overview of States, Vera Institute of Justice, September 2008: http://www.vera.org/content/treatment-and-reentry-practices-sex-offenders-overview-states-0
New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives Research Bulletin: Sex Offender Populations, Recidivism and Actuarial Assessment, 2007: New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives Research Bulletin.pdf
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act: State of New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, April 2007: (View PDF)
What Will it Cost States to Comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act? (State by State) by Justice Policy Institute: http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-08_FAC_SORNACosts_JJ.pdf