“…The majority of sexual assaults are committed by known acquaintances, not strangers who one would need to find on the registry (Planty, Langton, Krebs, Berzofsky, & Smiley-McDonald, 2013;Snyder, 2000). Furthermore, many community notification laws treat sexual offenders as a homogenous group, when in fact they differ in important ways, including their individual levels of recidivism risk (Lussier & Gress, 2014;Sample & Bray, 2006). Finally, requiring sex offenders to register with the state for long periods (or a lifetime) implies that they are stable in their offending over time and cannot be rehabilitated, though empirical evidence does not support these assumptions (Hargreaves & Francis, 2014;Lussier & Blokland, 2014).…”