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6 - The Ancillary Consequences of SORN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

By
Kelly Socia
Edited by
Wayne Logan  and
J. J. Prescott
Wayne Logan
Affiliation:
Florida State University School of Law
J. J. Prescott
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School
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Summary

Chapter 6 explores the broad range of ancillary consequences that stem from registration and notification laws. These consequences disrupt nearly every facet of daily life for registrants, their families, and their communities. The chapter begins with the most acutely felt consequences – the difficulty registrants experience finding jobs and housing. Since locating employment and housing is critical to successful reentry, the negative effects of SORN laws on both inhibit registrants’ ability to reintegrate. These difficulties have also led to the spatial clustering (“ghettoization”) of registrants. Other consequences include increased vigilantism by the public and decreased property values near registrant residences. All these consequences may lead to negative secondary effects on nonsexual criminal behavior and mental health outcomes, and in turn may affect the wellbeing of the family members of registrants and the overall community. Importantly, these wide-ranging consequences may also have hydraulic effects on charging and reporting decisions. Ultimately, this chapter concludes that SORN laws’ wide-reaching deleterious effects, and their high implementation costs, outweigh their supposed benefits. As a result, it maintains that SORN laws must be tailored to higher-risk offenders and that community notification must be curtailed.

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unintended and ancillary consequenceshousing difficultiesemployment difficultiesvigilantismreal estate valuessex offender familiesstate and local budgetshydraulic effectssex offender plea bargainingsex offender recidivismsex offense reportingpolicy reformcollateral consequences
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Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
An Empirical Evaluation
 , pp. 78 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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