with the greatest rate of decline occurring prior to the passage and implementation of Megan's Law. Megan's law did not reduce the number of rearrests for sex offenses or have any observable effect on the time between a sex offenders release from prison and rearrest for a new offense of ...
Data from 1,789 adult sex offenders released from prison in four states were collected (Minnesota, New Jersey, Florida, and South Carolina). On average, the sexual recidivism rate was approximately 5% at 5 years and 10% at 10 years. AWA Tier 2 offenders had higher Static-99R scores and ...
Battling Sex Offenders: Is Megan's Law an Effective Means of Achieving Public Safety? Following the brutal sexual assaults and murders of Amanda Wengert, 1 Divina Genao, 2 and Megan Kanka, 3 New Jersey has attempted to quell the public's outrage through the rapid enactment of Megan's Law...
Dial 1-900-PERVERT and Other Statutory Measures That Provide Public Notification of Sex Offenders On July 29, 1994, a seven-year-old New Jersey girl named Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by her neighbor, Jesse Tinmendequas, a twice-convicted child molester. 2 Timmendequas, who had been...
These laws mandate a civil hearing to determine whether a sex offender should be committed and confined indefinitely for treatment. Texas's SVP statute is unique in that it places committed offenders into supervised community settings. 展开
Community Notification of Sex Offenders: Issues of Punishment, Privacy, and Due Process The vicious rape and murder of a seven-year-old New Jersey girl in July, 1994, focused national attention on the issue of child molestation. But it was not... GS Rafshoon - 《Emory L J》 被引量: ...
New Jersey must revamp its Megan's Law legislation as it applies to juvenile offenders. 2 The New Jersey Legislature hastily enacted its Megan's Law scheme... AJ Hughes - 《Rutgers J.l. & Pub.poly》 被引量: 1发表: 2007年 Adaptations for Exploitation J. (2008). An examination of the...
The idea of sex offender notification and registration originated from the brutal murders and sexual assaults of several young children beginning during the 1980s in Washington, Minnesota, and New Jersey by convicted sex offenders who had been released back into the community from prison. 展开 ...