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  • Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies: Summary and Assessment of Research on Claimed Housing Impacts on Registered Offenders (2020)

    This research brief summarizes the Federal Research Division’s (FRD’s) review and assessment of literature on SORN (sex offender registration and notification policies) and jurisdictionspecific residency restrictions’ purported impacts to offenders’ housing. As part of a larger paper analyzing research on the effects of nearly two decades of federal, state, and local sex offender registration and notification laws, we reviewed nine papers published between 2005 and 2015 that addressed or touched upon whether SORN or state and local residency restrictions have impacted the following: the ability of registered sex offenders (RSOs) to find housing, the ability of RSOs to maintain housing...

  • Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies: Summary and Assessment of Research on Claimed Housing Impacts on Registered Offenders (2020)

    This research brief summarizes the Federal Research Division’s (FRD’s) review and assessment of literature on SORN (sex offender registration and notification policies) and jurisdictionspecific residency restrictions’ purported impacts to offenders’ housing. As part of a larger paper analyzing research on the effects of nearly two decades of federal, state, and local sex offender registration and notification laws, we reviewed nine papers published between 2005 and 2015 that addressed or touched upon whether SORN or state and local residency restrictions have impacted the following: the ability of registered sex offenders (RSOs) to find housing, the ability of RSOs to maintain housing...

  • Sex Offender Registration and Notification Policies: Summary and Assessment of Research on Claimed Housing Impacts on Registered Offenders (2020)

    This research brief summarizes the Federal Research Division’s (FRD’s) review and assessment of literature on SORN (sex offender registration and notification policies) and jurisdictionspecific residency restrictions’ purported impacts to offenders’ housing. As part of a larger paper analyzing research on the effects of nearly two decades of federal, state, and local sex offender registration and notification laws, we reviewed nine papers published between 2005 and 2015 that addressed or touched upon whether SORN or state and local residency restrictions have impacted the following: the ability of registered sex offenders (RSOs) to find housing, the ability of RSOs to maintain housing...