A Study in “Actuarial Justice”: Sex Offender Classification Practice and Procedure

Logan, Wayne A.

doi:10.1525/nclr.2000.3.2.593

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“…From our perspective, it is noteworthy that the only study able to separate first offenses from repeat offenses failed to find any evidence of a general deterrent effect (Sandler et al, 2008). However, as noted by Shao and Li (2006) and others (e.g., Logan, 2000), there is considerable betweenstate variation in presence of factors known to affect offending and in state SORN policies. New York's SORN policy is more limited in scope compared to other states' SORN policies.…”

Section: General Deterrent Effects Of Sorn Policiesmentioning

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“…Sex offender registration policies were implemented in every state in the country by 1996 (Logan, 2000(Logan, , 2009, and modifications requiring community notification followed shortly thereafter. Their effects have been subjected to scientific analysis by a growing body of researchers, although too few studies exist to support general conclusions.…”

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Effects of South Carolina’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policy on Deterrence of Adult Sex Crimes

Letourneau

Levenson

Bandyopadhyay

et al. 2010

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This study examined whether South Carolina’s sex offender registration and notification (SORN) policy was associated with a general deterrent effect on adult sex crimes. Using adult arrest data from 1990 through 2005, trend analyses modeled the intervention effects of 1995 (the year South Carolina’s SORN policy was initially implemented) and 1999 (the year the policy was revised to include online registration). Results supported a significant deterrent effect for the 1995 intervention year, with an approximately 11% reduction in first-time sex crime arrests in the post-SORN period (1995-2005) relative to the pre-SORN period (1990-1994). This decline equated to averting approximately three new sex crime arrests per month. Comparison analyses with serious nonsex offenses against persons (assault and robbery) failed to identify similar effects, suggesting that the 1995 effect is attributable to sex offense—specific legislation. Findings are compared with the existing literature on general deterrent effects of SORN and discussed in the context of research examining other effects of SORN.

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Section: General Deterrent Effects Of Sorn Policiesmentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effects of South Carolina’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policy on Deterrence of Adult Sex Crimes

Letourneau

Levenson

Bandyopadhyay

et al. 2010

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Individual subjects' motivations, deficiencies, needs, and potential were no longer central to the criminal adjudication process; instead, the focus turned to measure-based assessments of aggregated offender classes; risk management and prediction; and efficiency, internal accountability, and consistency in system administration (Feeley andSimon 1992, 1994). This trend has been observed in both adult and juvenile criminal justice settings, and it is exemplified by selective incapacitation types of schemes that use criminal history as a predictor of future risk, and that constrain individualized discretion in determining interventions (Feeley and Simon 1994;Kempf-Leonard and Peterson 2000;Logan 2000).…”

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The Narrative of the Number: Quantification in Criminal Court

Lynch¹

2019

Law Soc. Inq.

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Scholars have documented the explosion in quantification of social phenomena within organizational settings. A key site of the quantitative turn has been in the penallegal field, with purported transformative effects. This article draws from a field research project examining the on-the-ground implementation of the federal sentencing guidelines to explore how the guidelines' numbers-based logic is both articulated and reconstituted by legal actors in the adversarial process. Complementing macro-level work that examines the transformative effects of quantification at the social-structural level, I take a micro-level, empirically grounded approach that analytically focuses on day-today interactions in court to reveal quantification's possibilities and limits. I identify three adversarial strategies that narrate the meaning of the guideline calculation to demonstrate how the complex quantitative guidelines system becomes incorporated into narrative form to know, assess, and judge legal subjects.

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“…A growing legal argument has been the extent to which these classification systems carry an element of 'due process' in them. Given that community notification by the state has the potential to impact considerably on an ex-offender's life, the decision to so-notify needs to be fair and open rather than taken in closed rooms or some sort of 'Star Chamber' (see, for example, Logan 1999Logan , 2000a.…”

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Sex Offender Community Notification: Experiences from America

Thomas

2003

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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The UK sex offender register is at present 'closed' to any general public right of access despite the demands of various constituencies to grant such access. In the USA, registers are open to the public. This article explores the US experiences of disseminating information on sex offenders that started in the mid-1990s and seeks to draw lessons for the UK, on the practicalities that might ensue given a general right of access.

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A Study in “Actuarial Justice”: Sex Offender Classification Practice and Procedure

Cited by 17 publications

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Effects of South Carolina’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policy on Deterrence of Adult Sex Crimes

Effects of South Carolina’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policy on Deterrence of Adult Sex Crimes

The Narrative of the Number: Quantification in Criminal Court

Sex Offender Community Notification: Experiences from America

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