Sex offender registration and community notification challenges: the Supreme Court continues its trend.

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions and Sex Offender Legislation: Evidence of Evidence-Based Policy?

Understanding Treatment for Adults and Juveniles Who Have Committed Sex Offenses

Specialized treatment has been a mainstay of sex offender management approaches for several decades. In recent years, however, the heightened attention to sex crimes and its impact on victims and communities has resulted in a push for more punitive responses to the individuals who commit these crimes, including lengthier periods of confinement, tighter residency restrictions, expanded registrat...

AN EXAMINATION OF THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION ACT AS APPLIED TO JUVENILES Evaluating the Ability to Predict Sexual Recidivism

The recently enacted Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act will expand and standardize the registration of adolescent sex offenders. To evaluate the effectiveness of this and similar legislation, the authors assessed 91 juvenile males who had been adjudicated for a sexual felony offense and 174 juvenile males who had no history of sexual offending with several risk measures. On admission t...

Sex offender treatment and legislation.

The current issue of the Journal contains three articles related to sex offenders. The first, by Scott and Holmberg, discusses legislation that mandates either "chemical or surgical castration." The second, by Saleh and Guidry, reviews diagnostic and treatment considerations. The third, by Scott and Gerbasi, discusses sex offender registration and community notification. Much of the relevant se...

Distinguishing Physician Misconduct from Physician Disability.

Belleau begins to answer the question left to the lower courts in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grady. The court opined, in the Belleau case, that Wisconsin’s GPS monitoring program is reasonable, after considering numerous factors, including the purpose of the program, the invasiveness of the search that a GPS poses, studies on sex offender recidivism, and the reasonableness of the se...