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dc.contributor.authorHinds, Lynen
dc.contributor.authorDaly, Kathleenen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:31:20Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:31:20Z-
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.identifier.citationNo 3 Vol.: 34en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17251-
dc.formatPages 256-276en
dc.languageenen
dc.titleThe War on Sex Offenders: Community Notification in Perspectiveen
dc.title.alternativeAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Criminologyen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486580103400304en
dc.identifier.catalogid12228en
dc.subject.keywordPerpetratorsen
dc.subject.keywordSexual abuseen
dc.subject.keywordInvalid URLen
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.relation.urlhttp://anj.sagepub.com/content/34/3/256.abstracten
dc.description.notesThis article explores the contemporary phenomenon of “naming and shaming” sex offenders. Community notification laws, popularly known as Megan's Law, which authorise the public disclosure of the identity of convicted sex offenders to the community in which they live, were enacted throughout the United States in the 1990s. A public campaign to introduce “Sarah's Law” has recently been launched in Britain, following the death of eight-year old Sarah Payne. Why are sex offenders, and certain categories of sex offenders, singled out as targets of community notification laws? What explains historical variability in the form that sex offender laws take? We address these questions by reviewing the sexual psychopath laws enacted in the United States in the 1930s and 40s and the sexual predator and community notification laws of the 1990s, comparing recent developments in the United States with those in Britain, Canada, and Australia. We consider arguments by Garland, O'Malley, Pratt, and others on how community notification, and the control of sex offenders more generally, can be explained; and we speculate on the likelihood that Australia will adopt community notification laws.<br/ >Electronic Resource Number:<br/ >10.1177/000486580103400304en
dc.identifier.sourceAustralian and New Zealand journal of criminologyen
dc.date.entered2014-07-21en
dc.description.physicaldescriptionPages 256-276en
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