Kristen M. Zgoba

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the present climate of fear by way of five moral panic criteria developed by Goode & Ben-Yehuda and explore the link between the child predation moral panic and child safety legislation in the context of the recently enacted Amber Alert.

TL;DR: The results suggest that a majority of sex offenders would be unable to live in their current homes if residence restrictions were in place, and that few options for housing exist outside of common buffer zones.

TL;DR: The longitudinal analysis demonstrated that for sex offenders released from prison both prior to and after implementation of SORN, there are clearly two distinguishable groups of sex offenders in relation to patterns of recidivism.

TL;DR: A national profile of the registered sex offender (RSO) population is set forth, drawn from an analysis of data on 445,127 RSOs obtained from the public registries of 49 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and Guam, which illuminates the wide diversity of registrants across a range of demographic, offense-related, registry status, and risk-oriented variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of community notification and registration laws (Megan's Law) on the overall rate of sexual offending over time and its specific deterrence effect on re-offending, including the level of general and sexual offense recidivism, the nature of sexual re-to-offenses, and time to first re-arrest for sexual and non-sexual reoffenses were investigated.