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18 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 145 (2009)
Sex Offender Laws of the United Kingdom and the United States: Flawed Systems and Needed Reforms

handle is hein.journals/tlcp18 and id is 147 raw text is: Sex Offender Laws of the United Kingdom and the United States: Flawed Systems and Needed Reforms Autumn Long* I. INTRODU CTION ............................................................................................. 145 II. U .S. SEX OFFENDER LAW S ........................................................................... 147 A. Sex Offender Registration and Public Notification Laws .................. 147 B. Criticism of Registration and Notification Laws ............................... 150 C. R esidency R estrictions .......................................................................... 153 III. INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES: THE UNITED KINGDOM .............................. 154 A. The Development of Sex Offender Laws in the United Kingdom ....... 155 B. The Sex Offender Act of 1997 ............................................................... 157 C. Residency Restrictions and Other Means of Regulating Sex O ffenders ............................................................................................... 159 IV. WHAT EFFECTS HAVE REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION HAD ON R ECIDIV ISM ? ................................................................................................ 160 V. AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: CASTRATION ................................................. 164 V I. C ON CLU SION ................................................................................................ 166 I. INTRODUCTION In today's world, society loathes sex offenders more than almost all other criminals: people fear personal crimes such as rape, assault, and robbery more than other crimes;' parents indoctrinate their children with stranger danger rhetoric;2 the public demonizes pedophiles;3 and fellow prison inmates view sex offenders as the personification of evil. 4 *J.D. Candidate, The University of Iowa College of Law, May 2009. 'See Frank P. Williams, Marilyn D. McShane & Ronald L. Akers, Worry About Victimization: An Alternative and Reliable Measure for Fear of Crime, W. CRIMINOLOGY REV. 2(2) (2000), available at http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v2n2/williams.html (discussing the public fear of victimization as well as fear with regard to various types of crimes). 2See John M. Carpino, Stranger Danger, http://safetycops.comlstranger - danger.htm (last visited Feb. 12, 2009) (soliciting parents to teach their children to avoid stranger danger).

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