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57 Gonz. L. Rev. 209 (2021-2022)
Leveraging Information to Prevent Offending Abroad: International Megan's Law and Sex Offender Registration Systems around the World

handle is hein.journals/gonlr57 and id is 229 raw text is: LEVERAGING INFORMATION TO PREVENT OFFENDING
ABROAD: INTERNATIONAL MEGAN'S LAW AND SEX
OFFENDER REGISTRATION SYSTEMS AROUND THE
WORLD
Lori McPherson*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................ 211
I.   SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM.......... 212
A. Key Terminology.......................................................................... 212
B.   Factors  Contributing  to  SECT]................................................... 214
II.  INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO SECTT .................................................. 216
A. International Instruments ............................................................ 216
B .  IN TER P O L ...................................................................................221
III. UNITED STATES: FEEDER, ENFORCEMENT, AND PRE-INTERNATIONAL
MEGAN'S LAW CIVIL AUTHORITY....................................................... 222
A. United States as a Driver of SECTT ............................................ 222
B. Pre-IM L Federal Criminal Law .......... ....................................... 224
C. Registration of Sex Offenders in the United States ...................... 226
IV.  INTERNATIONAL M    EGAN'S LAW    ............................................................ 228
A. Legislative History ....................................................................... 228
B .  Sum m ary  and  Term s  .................................................................... 231
1. International Megan's Law Terminology ..............................232
*    J.D., cum laude, T.C. Williams School of Law. Currently serving as a Senior
Policy Advisor at the Sex Offender Investigations Branch (SOIB) within the Investigative
Operations Division of the United States Marshals Service. Opinions expressed herein are
solely that of the Author and do not necessarily represent the views of the SOIB, IOD, U.S.
Marshals Service, U.S. Department of Justice, or the United States. The author has previously
written numerous articles and publications on the topic of sex offender registration, including
Lori McPherson, Sex Offender Registration in Indian Country: SORNA Implementation and
18 U.S.C. §2250, DEP'T OF JUST. J. FED. LAW & PRACTICE, Mar. 2021., at 209, Lori
McPherson, The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) at 10 Years:
History, Implementation, and the Future, 64 DRAKE L. REv. 741 (2016), Lori McPherson, New
Developments in SORNA, U.S. ATT'YS BULL., July 2015, at 2, and Lori McPherson,
Practitioner's Guide to the Adam Walsh Act, 20 NCPCA UPDATE, nos. 9 & 10, 2007, at 1.
Ironically enough, she also wrote Lori McPherson, Law Review Articles Have Too Many
Footnotes, 68 J. LEGAL EDUc. 247 (2019).

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