Sex Offenders Registration
Sex offender registration and notification policies are important in the world we live in. The registration of sex offenders allow law enforcement to keep track of where each registered sex offender is located. The community members are also provided with information so they can keep themselves and their children safe as possible. There was a study of 14 studies on recidivism, 10 of those studies reported no significant effects on violent and or sexual recidivism. Prescott and Rockoff decided to separately examine the effects of the registration policy versus notification on recidivism, the model suggested that registration laws may reduce the sexual recidivism, on the other hand, notification laws may in fact increase …show more content…
In that study, a report of South Carolina’s registration and notification policy was well connected with the significant decline in the likelihood of solicitors prosecuting youth charged with sex offenses. The cases that were prosecuted, the policy was associated with a well increase in the likelihood of guilty determinations. A hypothesis was conducted that the reduced of solicitors prosecuting juvenile sex offense cases was due to their unwillingness to subject some youth to South Carolina’s harsh registration requirements. A further hypothesis that an increase rate of guilty determinations due, in part, to solicitors amending initial charges to less, nonsexual offense charges at adjudication as part of plea bargaining …show more content…
90 % of the youth have been charged with just one offense type. 73% of assault, sex offenses 11%, robbery offenses 6% assault and sex 5%, or assault and robbery offenses 5%. There was a sample of African American which is 66.3% or 32.5 % and the mean age at first charge of any type was 14.7 years. Of the youth charged with one or more charges, 59 % were African American and 40 % white. All data were extracted from South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Management Information System in collaboration with the South Carolina Budget and Control Board Office of Research and Statistics. Cases are initially charged between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2004 were included in the studies. All DJJ cases involving sex, assault, or robbery offenses charges and that were associated with final adjudication decisions were also included into the analyses, with few minor exceptions. The exceptions include rare female sexual offense cases, and cases that appeared to involve very young children older than 6 years old younger than 21 years old juvenile
Sex offender registration and notification policies are important in the world we live in. The registration of sex offenders allow law enforcement to keep track of where each registered sex offender is located. The community members are also provided with information so they can keep themselves and their children safe as possible. There was a study of 14 studies on recidivism, 10 of those studies reported no significant effects on violent and or sexual recidivism. Prescott and Rockoff decided to separately examine the effects of the registration policy versus notification on recidivism, the model suggested that registration laws may reduce the sexual recidivism, on the other hand, notification laws may in fact increase …show more content…
In that study, a report of South Carolina’s registration and notification policy was well connected with the significant decline in the likelihood of solicitors prosecuting youth charged with sex offenses. The cases that were prosecuted, the policy was associated with a well increase in the likelihood of guilty determinations. A hypothesis was conducted that the reduced of solicitors prosecuting juvenile sex offense cases was due to their unwillingness to subject some youth to South Carolina’s harsh registration requirements. A further hypothesis that an increase rate of guilty determinations due, in part, to solicitors amending initial charges to less, nonsexual offense charges at adjudication as part of plea bargaining …show more content…
90 % of the youth have been charged with just one offense type. 73% of assault, sex offenses 11%, robbery offenses 6% assault and sex 5%, or assault and robbery offenses 5%. There was a sample of African American which is 66.3% or 32.5 % and the mean age at first charge of any type was 14.7 years. Of the youth charged with one or more charges, 59 % were African American and 40 % white. All data were extracted from South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Management Information System in collaboration with the South Carolina Budget and Control Board Office of Research and Statistics. Cases are initially charged between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2004 were included in the studies. All DJJ cases involving sex, assault, or robbery offenses charges and that were associated with final adjudication decisions were also included into the analyses, with few minor exceptions. The exceptions include rare female sexual offense cases, and cases that appeared to involve very young children older than 6 years old younger than 21 years old juvenile