Effectiveness of sex offender registration policies in the United States
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Sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws in the United States are widely accepted, with supporters believing that disclosing the location of sex offenders residence improves the public's ability to guard themselves and their children from sexual victimization.[1][2] Despite this wide public acceptance, empirical observations do not uniformly support this belief.
Critics argue that the statistics do not reveal a statistically significant shift in sexual offense trends following the implementation of sex offender registration and notification (SORN) regimes.[3][4][5][6] A few studies indicate that sexual recidivism may have been lowered by SORN policies,[7][8] while a few have found statistically significant increase in sex crimes following SORN implementation.[9][10]