Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: Sensible Crime Policy or Flawed Logic?

  • Jill S. Levenson
  • , Kristen M. Zgoba
  • , Richard Tewksbury

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Abstract

Citing routine activities theory, the authors speculated that child molesters might be motivated to purposely live within close access to potential victims.\n The stigma of felony conviction creates challenges for all criminal offenders, but in particular, registered sex offenders face tremendous discrimination even when they are behaving in a law-abiding and productive fashion (Levenson & Cotter, 2005b; Levenson et al., 2007b; Tewksbury, 2004; Tewksbury, 2005; Tewksbury & Lees, 2006; 2007; Zevitz & Farkas, 2000b).
Original languageAmerican English
Pages2-9, 57
Number of pages9
Volume71
No3
Specialist publicationFederal Probation
StatePublished - Dec 2007

Keywords

  • Routine activity theory
  • Sex offender
  • Sex Offenders
  • Stigma
  • Crime
  • Child sexual abuse

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