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Citation

Gentry Sperber K, Lowenkamp CT, Carter DE, Allman R. Crim. Justice Policy Rev. 2010; 21(4): 500-519.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0887403409350909

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Many sex offender registration and notification procedures use an assignment process that places offenders into a lower, middle, or upper tier. This implies that the offenders on the lowest tier pose less risk than those on the highest tier; yet empirical testing of this assumption is lacking. As a first step to determining whether this approach correctly identifies the dangerousness of sex offenders, this study seeks to determine whether there is a statistically significant relationship between a sex offender’s probability of reoffending and his registration and notification assignment in an Ohio sample of male sex offenders. Chi-square results showed no significant relationship between a sex offender’s probability of reoffending and his registration and notification assignment. Regression results demonstrated only two variables to be predictive of registration assignment—prior sex offenses and current first degree felony offense— while other variables shown to be correlated to sex offending were not predictive of registration assignment.

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