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    Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past, Present, and Future

    Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: Feb. 28, 2008

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    • 022895

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    • 2008
    • 16 pages.

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    • Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past, Present, and Future

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    ANNOTATION: The impact of the Adam Walsh Act (AWA) of 2006 on state efforts at sex offender registration and notification is explained. The AWA makes non-registration a federal felony. Authorization for federal prosecution is based on the U.S. Commerce Clause. This justification will no doubt be argued before the Supreme Court and upheld, according to the author. AWA also requires standards that often conflict with states' rights. There are also problems with AWA's three-tier registrant classification system, based on offense not conviction, and its overly-broad notification scheme.
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