Citation

Beck VS, Travis LF. J. Crim. Justice 2004; 32(5): 455-463.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.06.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Research on sex offender notification statutes was limited, and what did exist suggested notification resulted in increasing fear of victimization (Phillips, D. M. (1998). Zevitz, R. G. & Farkas, M. A. (2000c). Nonetheless, existing research failed to provide a direct measure of fear of victimization, or a comparison group to determine whether community members receiving notification were more fearful of victimization than community members, residing in the same neighborhood, who had not received notification. Additionally, existing research did not differentiate between fear of victimization for self (personal fear) and fear of victimization for others (altruistic fear). Warr (Warr, M. (2000) argued that the