Controlling Sex Offender Reentry: Jessica's Law Measures in California Export

@article{citeulike:4333504, abstract = {This paper examines current research on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring and residential restrictions in preventing recidivism amongst sex offenders in California, as well as the experiences of other states that have experimented with these techniques. The paper focuses on four questions: 1) What are the trends in California sex offense data and other states with sizable sex offender populations? 2) What does research and other state experiences tell us about the effectiveness of electronic monitoring in preventing recidivism and absconding of sex offenders? 3) What does research and other state experiences tell us about the effectiveness of residential restrictions in preventing recidivism of sex offenders? 4) In light of California's sex offender population, and CDCR's current methods for supervising paroled sex offenders, what challenges would CDCR and other state agencies likely face in implementing expanded electronic monitoring and residential restrictions? Note: The accompanying charts for this paper are not included, please contact author if you would like access to them.}, author = {Peckenpaugh, Jason}, citeulike-article-id = {4333504}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=977263}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID977263_code786025.pdf?abstractid=977263&mirid=1}, day = {03}, journal = {Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series}, keywords = {criminology, law}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2009-04-16 22:15:46}, priority = {2}, publisher = {SSRN}, title = {Controlling Sex Offender Reentry: Jessica's Law Measures in California}, url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=977263}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4333504 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4333504 N2 - This paper examines current research on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring and residential restrictions in preventing recidivism amongst sex offenders in California, as well as the experiences of other states that have experimented with these techniques. The paper focuses on four questions: 1) What are the trends in California sex offense data and other states with sizable sex offender populations? 2) What does research and other state experiences tell us about the effectiveness of electronic monitoring in preventing recidivism and absconding of sex offenders? 3) What does research and other state experiences tell us about the effectiveness of residential restrictions in preventing recidivism of sex offenders? 4) In light of California's sex offender population, and CDCR's current methods for supervising paroled sex offenders, what challenges would CDCR and other state agencies likely face in implementing expanded electronic monitoring and residential restrictions? Note: The accompanying charts for this paper are not included, please contact author if you would like access to them. JF - Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series TI - Controlling Sex Offender Reentry: Jessica's Law Measures in California PB - SSRN KW - criminology KW - law AU - Peckenpaugh, Jason PY - 2007/April/03/ UR - http://ssrn.com/abstract=977263 ER -