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31 Crim. Just. Stud. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/cjscj31 and id is 1 raw text is: CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDIES, 2018 VOL. 31, NO. 1, 1-17 ledge https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2017.1393418 Taylor & Francis Group The community corrections perspective toward sex offender management policies and collateral consequences: does contact with sex offenders matter? Corey Call Department of Criminal Justice, West Liberty University, Wheeling, WV, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Since the 1990s, numerous policies have been enacted aimed at Received 16 January 2017 managing sex offenders in the comm unity. Two of the most prominent Accepted 13 October 2017 management policies are registries for sex offenders and residence KEYWORDS restrictions. Community corrections professionals are tasked with Sexoffenders;community enforcing these policies and yet little is known about their perceptions notification; residence toward sex offenders and the policies in place to manage them. Prior restrictions; collateral research has suggested that contact with sex offenders may place a consequences significant role in shaping the attitudes of community corrections professionals toward sex offender management policies and collateral consequences. The current study investigates the effect of contact with sex offenders on the perceptions of community corrections professionals (n 209) toward sex offender management policies and collateral consequences faced by sex offenders. Findings suggest that contact with sex offenders does not influence the attitudes of community corrections professionals, but several other significant factors were revealed including parental status, political orientation, race, tenure, sex, and age. Following a series of high-profile sex crimes against children in the early 1990s, a new wave of legislation targeting sex offenders emerged to satisfy public demand for increased pro- tection from this subgroup of offenders (Comartin, Kernsmith, & Kernsmith, 2009; Kernsmith, Craun, & Foster, 2009). Through public access to sex offender registries, a management sys- tem of sex offender registration and notification (SORN) was created. SORN allows for the monitoring of sex offenders not only by the criminal justice system, but by the general public as well. In theory, SORN acts as a specific deterrent through the monitoring of currently registered offenders and a general deterrent by discouraging potential offenders from com- mitting a sexual offense for fear of being placed on the sex offender registry (La Fond & Winick, 2004). In addition to federal legislation, the states have taken it upon themselves to enact sex offender management policies as well. Currently, more than 30 states in the US have resi- dence restrictions that prohibit sex offenders with child victims from residing within a certain distance of parks, playgrounds, schools, or other locations where you would commonly find CONTACT Corey Call Q corey.call@westliberty.edu © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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