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100	1		_aPrescott, J.J. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aDo Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? _cby J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff
264			_aChicago: _bUniversity of Chicago Press; _c2011.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aThe Journal of Law and Economics _vVolume 54, number 1,
520			_aSex offenders have become targets of some of the most far-reaching and novel crime legislation in the United States. Two key innovations have been registration and notification laws, which, respectively, require that offenders provide identifying information to law enforcement and mandate that this information be made fully public. We study how registration and notification affect the frequency and incidence across victims of reported sex offenses. We present evidence that registration reduces the frequency of reported sex offenses against local victims (for example, neighbors) by keeping police informed about local sex offenders. Notification also appears to reduce crime, not by disrupting the criminal conduct of convicted sex offenders, but by deterring nonregistered offenders. We find that notification may actually increase recidivism. This latter finding, consistent with the idea that notification imposes severe costs that offset the benefits to offenders of forgoing criminal activity, is significant, given that notification’s purpose is recidivism reduction
650			_aCrime victims _vCriminal arrests _xCriminal behavior
650			_aSex offender registration _vSex offenders _xSexual offenses
650			_aCriminal law _vCriminal offenses _xCriminals
700			_aRockoff, Jonah E. _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1086/658485
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