Sexual offender treatment programs to reduce reoffending have been implemented in many
countries as part of a strategy in managing this offender group. However, there are still …

Examination of societal reaction to sexual offenders reveals a history of harshness
exemplified by the sexual psychopath laws of the 1930s. The latest round of legal attempts …

Criminal careers have long occupied the imaginations of criminologists. Since the 1986
publication of the National Academy of Sciences report on criminal careers and career …

Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society, and over the
past decade, lawmakers have passed a variety of social policies designed to protect the …

Several scholars have suggested that life changes—such as desistance from crime—may
be shaped by social structures through a process of “knifing off.” Individuals are thought to …

Florida law allows judges to withhold adjudication of guilt for individuals who have been
found guilty of a felony and are being sentenced to probation. Such individuals lose no civil …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the deterrent effect of imprisonment. Using data on
offenders convicted of felonies in 1993 in Jackson County (Kansas City), Missouri, we …

In recent years, the growing literature on the topic of desistance from crime and deviant
behavior has generated a large body of knowledge on this dimension of the criminal career …

Community notification, known as “Megan's Law,” provides the public with information about
known sex offenders in an effort to assist parents and potential victims to protect themselves …

This study of 300 women and 300 men graduates of a boot camp finds that there are
noteworthy gender differences in predictors of tenure in the community without criminal …