societal reaction to sex offenders: a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability

By James F. Quinn, C. Forsyth, Carla Mullen-Quinn. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Public Perceptions About Sex Offenders and Community Protection Policies (2007, background): “Skepticism about sex offenders’ capacity to benefit from psychological interventions also appears to be a driving force behind sex offender legislation, especially in the wake of random sexual violence against children by repeat sex offenders (Quinn et al., 2004; Sample, 2001).”
Collateral Consequences of Sex Offender Registration (2005, background): “Somewhat similarly, Quinn, Forsyth, and Mullen-Quinn (2004) have argued that most of the contemporary ways that American society responds to sex offenders (severe sentencing statutes, civil commitment, and community notification statutes) are based on popular, but often unsubstantiated, beliefs…”
Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: Unintended Consequences and Community Reentry (2007, background): “Despite the dearth of evidence linking residential proximity to schools and sex offense recidivism, zoning restrictions are widely popular, partly due to the belief that sex offenders have extraordinarily high recidivism rates (Levenson, 2006; Levenson, Brannon, Fortney, & Baker, 2007; Quinn, Forsy”
PERCEPTIONS OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION: COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES AND COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES (2006, background): “Society and academia alike have little knowledge about the specific collateral consequences that occur for convicted sex offenders, despite their status among the most feared and despised criminals in our society (Quinn et al. 2004).”
The Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders Scale: The Development of a Psychometric Assessment Instrument (2008, background): “All have been convicted of sexual offenses, but they are otherwise heterogeneous with regard to demographic (e.g., gender, age, socioeconomic status, abuse history; Fedoroff & Moran, 1997), offense-related (e.g., level of coercion, type and age of victims; Quinn, Forsyth, & Mullen-Quinn, 2004 ), an”
Public Awareness and Action Resulting From Sex Offender Community Notification Laws (2008, background): “Many scholars have suggested that the passage of these community notification laws was the result of a “moral panic” about sex offending, particularly the victimization of children (Gavin, 2005; Hinds & Daly, 2000; Jenkins, 1998; Quinn, Forsyth, & Mullen-Quinn, 2004; Sample, 2001; Steinbock, 1995;”