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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:

• Managing Sex Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Laws by LiYing Li and Jeffrey E Nash, 2012
• Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community by Anthony H. Goodman, 2012
• 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, 2012
• Sexual Offenses and Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Policy by Karen J. Terry, 2012
• Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America, by Chrysanthi Leon, 2011
  (*We Highly Recommend)
• Convicted Sex Offenders: Restrictions and Challenges (Law, Crime and Law Enforcement) by Joanne D. Rimpell, 2011
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law by Vanessa Place, 2010
• Forgiveness and Child Abuse: Would YOU Forgive? by Lois Einhorn and Arun Gandhi, 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
• Sexual Offending and Restoration (Restorative Justice Classics), 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
• 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
• Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions Edmond J Coleman and Michael Miner, 2003

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
• Only Pictures?: Therapeutic Work With Internet Sex Offenders by Ethel Quayle, Dawn Harbinson, Marcus Erooga, Max Taylor and Louise Wright, 2006
• 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
• Protecting Society from Sexually Dangerous Offenders: Law, Justice, and Therapy (Law and Public Policy) by Seth C. Kalichman and John Q. La Fond, 2003

America’s Justice System/Prosecutors/Restorative Justice:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, 2012
• Federal Prison Guidebook: Federal Prison Placement, Profiles, and Tips:
  How to ensure that your client gets into the best possible prison and is released at the earliest opportunity. By Alan Ellis, J. Michael Henderson, and Todd Bussert, 2012
• 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
• The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law by Vanessa Place, 2010
• Forgiveness and Child Abuse: Would YOU Forgive? by Lois Einhorn and Arun Gandhi, 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
• Sexual Offending and Restoration (Restorative Justice Classics), 2009
• 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 Crime and the Media by Chris Greer, 2012
• Sex Panic and the Punitive State, by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011
• Fearmonger: Stephen Harper's Tough-on-Crime Agenda, by Paula Mallea, 2011
• The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin, 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

Biographies/Memoirs/Accounts of RSO’s or Their Loved Ones

• Registered for Life: Consequences of a Former Sex Offender by R Luther Cooper, 2012
• Classification: Sex Offender: America's Ultimate Scarlet Letter by J. D. Strathmore, 2011
• Locked In the Sex Offender Registry: Rendition in Maine by Jim Logan, 2011
• A Parallel Universe by Alex Landon and Elaine Halleck, 2011
• Consensual Consequences: A True Story of Life with a “Registered Sex Offender” by Lynn Gilmore, 2011
• A Motion For Innocence: ...And Justice for All? By Shaun Webb, 2010 (revised in 2012)
• How I Became a Registered Sex Offender by Eric Robert Smith, 2010
• The World Calls Me Sex Offender, by James Clagen, 2006
• Offending Identities: Sex Offenders’ Perspectives on Their Treatment and Management, 2005

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:

• Estimating the Effect of Crime Risk on Property Values and Time on Market: Evidence from Megan's Law in Virginia by Scott Wentland, Bennie D. Waller Jr. and Raymond T. Brastow, October 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2160416
• Inevitable Recidivism: The Origin and Centrality of an Urban Legend by Tamara Rice Lave, September 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2153285
• Vera Institute: State Corrections Spending Cuts Uneven, Not Necessarily Efficient, September 2012:
  States spent less money on prisons and community corrections programs in 2009 and 2010 but that didn't necessarily correlate with reductions in the population of people under correctional supervision, says the Vera Institute of Justice in a new study. The study said that, "Policy changes that aim to cut spending on prisons do not necessarily have the expected impact on community corrections populations or spending."
  The study cited several states, including Michigan, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Virginia, that "have successfully implemented policies that curb both prison populations and spending." Vera found that "many states encountered challenges-economic, political, and structural- that may have stymied the ambitions of recent legislative and policy changes; in many cases, expected or desired outcomes were only partially realized, if at all. However, recent accelerated efforts at sentencing and corrections reform suggest that it may be too soon to see the promise of a more efficient, less costly correctional system fulfilled."
  http://www.vera.org/pubs/realigning-justice-resources
• Justice Center Council of State Governments: States Report Reductions in Recidivism, September 2012:
  http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/documents/0000/1569/9.24.12_Recidivism_Reductions_9-24_lo_res.pdf
• Preventing Sex-Offender Recidivism Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approaches and Specialized Community Integration by Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin, July 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2116424
• State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States- 2010, by Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon and Jeff Manza, July 2012:
  Concludes, that in Virginia one in five African Americans has lost the right to vote because of a felony. That is one of the highest rates in the country and trails behind Florida (23%) and Kentucky (22%).
  http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/fd_State_Level_Estimates_of_Felon_Disen_2010.pdf
• Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Less Safe? By J.J. Prescott , June 2012
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2094665
• Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms, Pew Center, June 2012:
  http://www.pewstates.org/research/reports/time-served-85899394616?p=1
• Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012 by Samuel R. Gross and Michael Shaffer, June 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2092195
• The Evolution of Unconstitutionality in Sex Offender Registration Laws by Catherine L. Carpenter and Amy E. Beverlin, May 2012:
  http://www.hastingslawjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Carpenter_63-HLJ-1071.pdf
• The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem by Lucien E. Dervan and Vanessa Edkins, May 2012 (Over half of the participants in the study were willing to falsely admit guilt in exchange for perceived benefits) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2071397
• United States Continuing to Overspend on Police, Despite Decreasing Crime Rates by Justice Policy Institute, May 2012: http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/3906
• The Procedural Due Process Rights of the Stigmatized Prisoner by Lindsey Webb, May 2012: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2061839
• 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
• The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, Pew Center, March 2012:
  http://www.pewstates.org/research/reports/the-price-of-prisons-85899383045
• Sex-Based Sentencing: Sentencing Discrepancies Between Male and Female Sex Offenders by Randa Embry and Phillip M. Lyons Jr., March 2012: http://fcx.sagepub.com/content/7/2/146.abstract
• Wrong Track for Savings: How Florida’s Prison Population Became a Runaway Train, and Why Better Policies, Not Private Prisons, Can Put the Brakes on Correctional Costs by Justice Policy Institute, February 2012: http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/3495
• 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
• Veteran Sex Offenders and Reentry Problems by Bradley Schaffer, April 2011: http://jcx.sagepub.com/content/17/3/266.abstract
• 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
• The Mandatory Pretrial Release Provision of the Adam Walsh Act Amendments: How 'Mandatory' Is It, and Is It Constitutional? by Bryan Dearinger, February 2011: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2101700
• 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
Boon or Barrier to Prosecution? The Real World Impact of Sex Offender Registration Requirements by Rose Corrigan 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
• 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
• Prison and Jail Deaths in Custody, 2000-2009 - Statistical Tables:
  http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pjdc0009st.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
• Misperceptions of Sex Offender Perpetration: Considering the Impact of Sex Offender Registration by Sarah W. Craun and Matthew T. Theriot, December 2008: http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/24/12/2057.abstract
• 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
• Veterans in State and Federal Prison, 2004 by Margaret E. Noonan and Christopher J. Mumola, May 2007 : Concludes, Vet Prisoners have More Sex Convictions than Other Inmates
  http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/vsfp04.pdf
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Collateral Consequences of Conviction by Christine Tramontano, 2006:
  http://www.nyls.edu/user_files/1/3/4/30/59/65/68/capstone050603.pdf
• 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
• U.S. Department of Justice: Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons, February 2001:
  https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/181249.pdf
• 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:

• The National Juvenile Justice Network: Sex Offender Registry Platform, July 2012:
  http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital-library/Sex-Offender-Registries-policy-platform_FINAL_07-31-12.pdf
• Sexting Among Young Adults, by Deborah Gordon-Messer, Jose Arturo Bauermeister, Alison Grodzinski and Marc Zimmerman, July 2012:
  http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(12)00214-5/abstract
• The Center for Disease Control 2011 Report: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), June 2012. Section- Sexual Risk Behavior: HIV, STD, & Teen Pregnancy Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
• Sending Sexually Explicit Photos by Cell Phone – More Common Among Teens Than You Might Think by Donald Strassberg , June 2012:
  http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1380931-0
• 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:

• Sexting Among Young Adults, by Deborah Gordon-Messer, Jose Arturo Bauermeister, Alison Grodzinski and Marc Zimmerman, July 2012:
  http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(12)00214-5/abstract
• Sending Sexually Explicit Photos by Cell Phone – More Common Among Teens Than You Might Think by Donald Strassberg , June 2012:
  http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1380931-0
• 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:

• Residence Restriction Legislation, Sex Crime Rates, and the Spatial Distribution of Sex Offender Residences by Kelly M. Socia, September 2011: This research was performed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (Award no. 2010-IJ-CX-0004 ) Authors Final Thoughts: ”This study has examined a number of issues related to sex offender residence restrictions and generated a number of interesting and perhaps surprising conclusions. However, even if the results of this study are widely distributed among academics and policymakers, and/or this call for more research is heeded by future researchers, these results will only be valuable to the extent that they are used by policymakers to make sound policy decisions. It is not enough to produce yet another research article or (extremely impressive) dissertation highlighting the significant and non-significant associations between two variables in a model, hypothesizing about intended and unintended consequences on community members, or otherwise damming the effectiveness of a certain policy through the use of statistical evidence. Instead, connections between researchers and policymakers must be forged and strengthened, and policymakers must have the courage to stand before their constituents and propose effective policies that are based on sound research, even if this does not help them win voter support or ensure their reelection. Without these actions, the tangible implications of this study (and most other academic research) will remain unused and largely irrelevant, and the recommendations and warnings for policymakers and community members will remain unheeded”. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/235979.pdf
• 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
• Sex Offender Community Notification Laws: Are Their Effects Symbolic or Instrumental in Nature? By Lisa L. Sample, Mary K. Evans and Amy L. Anderson, March 2011: http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/22/1/27.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:

• Child Pornography and the Restitution Revolution by Cortney Lollar, August 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2123527
• 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

People with Developmental Disorders /Autism/ Asperger’s Syndrome/Mental and Physical Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System and/or Facing Sexual Charges

• Assessing the Sex Offender With Asperger’s Disorder: A Forensic Psychological and Neuropsychological Perspective by John Matthew Fabian, September 2011: http://www.civicresearchinstitute.com/online/article_abstract.php?pid=7&iid=422&aid=2819
• ASD and Internet Crime by Mary Riggs Cohen, Spring 2011: http://aspergercenter.com/articles/MaryRiggsCohen_ASD_and_InternetCrime.pdf
• The Prevalence and Treatment of People with Asperger’s Syndrome in the Criminal Justice System by Ann Browning and Laura Caulfield, April 2011: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/Abstract.aspx?id=257103
• Asperger's Adolescent Sex Addict, Sex Offender: A Case Study by Eric Griffin-Shelley, January 2010: https://www.ncjrs.gov/app/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=252322
• Asperger Syndrome in the Criminal Justice System by Judge Kimberly Taylor , Dr. Gary Mesibov, and Dennis Debbaudt, 2009: http://www.aane.org/asperger_resources/articles/miscellaneous/as_in_the_criminal_justice_system.html
• Asperger’s Syndrome and the Criminal Law: The Special Case of Child Pornography by Mark Mahoney, 2009: http://www.harringtonmahoney.com/documents/Aspergers%20Syndrome%20and%20the%20Criminal%20Law%20v26.pdf
• Aspergers Teens and Sexual Issues: The two most important issues to address with Aspergers teens are sexual safety and social issues related to sexuality. http://www.myaspergerschild.com/2010/10/aspergers-teens-and-sexual-issues.html
• Help for Parents with Defiant Aspergers Teens: http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com/DefiantAspergersTeen

Civil Commitment/SVP’s:

• A Multi-State Recidivism Study Using Static-99R and Static-2002 Risk Scores and Tier Guidelines from the Adam Walsh Act by Kristen M. Zgoba, Michael Miner, Raymond Knight, Elizabeth Letourneau, Jill Levenson and David Thornton, November 2012:
  https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/240099.pdf
• Throwing Away the Key: Has the Adam Walsh Act Lowered the Threshold for Sexually Violent Predator Commitment Too Far? By Tamara Rice Lave, September 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2143976
• Symposium: Preventative Detention: Sex Offender Exceptionalism and Preventive Detention by Corey Rayburn Yung, 2011:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2141350
• Assessing Volitional Impairment in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations by Frederick Winsmann, 2012:
  http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/103.html

• Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services: Item 319.A.3. – Progress Report on the Plan for the Housing of Additional Individuals Committed for Treatment at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR)

  • January 1, 2012 Report
  • April 1, 2012 Report
  • July 1, 2012 Report
• DBHDS: Virginia Sexually Violent Predator Program and VCBR, January 14, 2011:
  http://hac.virginia.gov/committee/files/2011/01-14-11/VP_and_VCBR.pdf
• Preventing Sex-Offender Recidivism Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approaches and Specialized Community Integration by Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin, July 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2116424
• Delineating Sexual Dangerousness by Fredrick E. Vars, May 2012: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2050994
• 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
• Virginia Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Biennium Budget Update and U.S. Department of Justice and the Commonwealth of Virginia Settlement Agreement Costs, February 2012:
  http://hac.virginia.gov/subcommittee/health_human_resources/files/02-06-12/DBHDS.pdf
• Gilbane Development Company and Liberty Healthcare Corporation 2011 Bid to Run VCBR:
  http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/documents/AdminBusiness/adm-PPEA-VCBR-11-01_Liberty-Gilbane.pdf
  (Financial Data Removed)
• Geo Care 2011 Bid to Run VCBR:
  http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/documents/AdminBusiness/adm-PPEA-VCBR-11-01.pdf
  (Financial Data Removed)
• 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
• Office of Inspector General unexpected visit to VCBR in 2008:
  http://www.oig.virginia.gov/documents/FR-VCBR144-169-08final011608w-respons032309.pdf
• 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:

• Estimating the Effect of Crime Risk on Property Values and Time on Market: Evidence from Megan's Law in Virginia by Scott Wentland, Bennie D. Waller Jr. and Raymond T. Brastow, October 2012:
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2160416
• Virginia Senate Finance Committee, Public Safety Report August 2012:
  View PDF

• Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services: Item 319.A.3. – Progress Report on the Plan for the Housing of Additional Individuals Committed for Treatment at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR)

  • January 1, 2012 Report
  • April 1, 2012 Report
  • July 1, 2012 Report
  • DBHDS: Virginia Sexually Violent Predator Program and VCBR, January 14, 2011:
    http://hac.virginia.gov/committee/files/2011/01-14-11/VP_and_VCBR.pdf
• 2012 Report: VSP Monitoring of Offenders Required to Comply with the Sex Offender Registry Requirements:
  2012 VSP Monitoring of Sex Offenders
• Time Served State Fact Sheet for Virginia 2000-2009, Pew Center, June 2012:
  http://www.pewstates.org/research/state-fact-sheets/time-served-in-virginia-85899396393
• 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
• Virginia Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Biennium Budget Update and U.S. Department of Justice and the Commonwealth of Virginia Settlement Agreement Costs, February 2012:
  http://hac.virginia.gov/subcommittee/health_human_resources/files/02-06-12/DBHDS.pdf
• Virginia State Police Crime Report 2011: http://www.vsp.state.va.us/downloads/Crime_in_Virginia_2011.pdf
• Virginia Secretary of Public Safety: Status Report on Offender Transitional and Reentry Services, 2011:
  http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/Initiatives/RE-Entry/2011-Status_Report-Services.pdf
• Virginia Secretary of Public Safety: Virginia Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Advisory Board, 2011:
  http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/initiatives/DV/2011AnnualReportonDomesticandSexualViolenceinVirginiaFinal.pdf
• Gilbane Development Company and Liberty Healthcare Corporation 2011 Bid to Run VCBR:
  http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/documents/AdminBusiness/adm-PPEA-VCBR-11-01_Liberty-Gilbane.pdf
  (Financial Data Removed)
• Geo Care 2011 Bid to Run VCBR:
  http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/documents/AdminBusiness/adm-PPEA-VCBR-11-01.pdf
  (Financial Data Removed)
• Virginia Secretary of Public Safety: Virginia Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Advisory Board Report and Recommendations, 2011:
  http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/initiatives/DV/DVPrevention-Response-2011-Report.pdf
• Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission 2011 Report:
  http://www.vcsc.virginia.gov/2011AnnualReport.pdf
• 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
• Virginia Secretary of Public Safety: Alternatives for Non-Violent Offenders Task Force Report and Recommendations, 2010:
  http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/Initiatives/RE-Entry/alternativesForNonviolentOffenders.pdf
• Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission 2010 Report:
  http://www.vcsc.virginia.gov/2010AnnualReport.pdf
• 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
  • Sex Offender Registry Requirements of the AWA and 2009 G.A. Bills
• 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 Criminal Sentencing Commission 2009 Report:
  http://www.vcsc.virginia.gov/2009AnnualReport.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
• Office of Inspector General unexpected visit to VCBR in 2008:
  http://www.oig.virginia.gov/documents/FR-VCBR144-169-08final011608w-respons032309.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