Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
Sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws were motivated by several basic empirical assumptions: (1) that individuals convicted of sex offenses recidivate at far higher rates than other subpopulations convicted of crimes (they do not) and (2) that to effectively combat sexual offending, especially concerning children, communities need identifying and locational information regarding individuals convicted of sex offenses so that they can take protective precautions (when in reality most sexual offending is committed by persons known to victims and first-time offenders, who by definition are not registrants).
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