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Megan?s Law: Assessing the Practical and Monetary Efficacy

View the entire PDF document here EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The research that follows concerns the various impacts of community notification and registration laws (Megan?s Law) in New Jersey. Although this report includes a variety of interesting findings and many ideas that will be explored upon post grant period, this research was embarked upon, in general, to investigate: 1) the effect of Megan?s Law on the overall rate of sexual offending over time; 2) its specific deterrence effect on re-offending, including the level of general and sexual offense recidivism, the nature of sexual re-offenses, and time to first re-arrest for sexual and non-sexual re-offenses (i.e., community tenure); and 3) the costs of implementation and annual expenditures of Megan?s Law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).