Zoning laws that prevent sex offenders from living within close proximity to schools and other
places where children congregate have proliferated over the past 10 years. In many …

System-impacted individuals often rely on others to provide financial support, which aids in
the payment of legal-financial obligations (LFOs). LFOs comprise the fines, fees, restitution …

Contemporary data from the United States show that rates of sexual offending and
reoffending have been in steady decline for decades. Nonetheless, nonprofessionals …

Within many sexual offender–specific treatment programs, clients and their therapists devote
considerable time to understanding “cycles” or “pathways” to sexual offending, and clients …

Desistance from sexual offending is of great import to scholars, practitioners, and the public.
Despite theoretical advances in life course theories generally, the same work is only …

Social distance, or the level of familiarity and rapport, within the officer–offender relationship
is important in reducing recidivism and promoting desistance. Although examined in a …

Monetary sanctions can expand the scope and depth of punishment. Most research on
monetary sanctions has centered on fines and fees assessed by the court, but they are also …

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Objectives This research examines the contribution of social ecological factors to the
variation in sex offender residence restriction (SORR) violation rates, operationalized as a …

This chapter presents an overview of sex offender residence restriction (SORR) policies and
how they have expanded in recent years. The historical rationale for the development of …