Naomi J Freeman

Biographic Data

ID4126371
NAMENaomi J Freeman
GIVEN NAMESNaomi J
FAMILY NAMEFreeman
SIGNATUREFREEMAN N J
AFFILIATIONSNew York State Office of Mental Health
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Criminal Histories, Risk Profiles, and Predictors of Recidivism Among Men Who Sexually Offend Over the Age of 60 Years

    Open AccessJeffrey C Sandler, Naomi J FreemanARTICLECrime & Delinquency2025

    Research has consistently found sexual recidivism risk drops as men convicted of sexual offenses age, but little research exists on those few men who do sexually offend when older. The current study examined the criminal histories, risk profiles, and predictors of sexual recidivism in a large sample of men who sexually offended over the age of 60 years. Analyses showed low levels of sexual offending under the age of 60 years prior to the commissi…

  • Reexamining predictors of trial outcomes in New York State’s sex offender civil management process

    Nathan S Kemper, Marie L Reilly et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2024

    OBJECTIVE: In 2007, New York enacted the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act, empowering the state to civilly manage individuals who have committed sexual offenses (respondents) and are deemed to have a mental abnormality (MA) that predisposes them to sexually recidivate after serving their criminal sentences. We sought to replicate and extend a previous study (Lu et al., 2015) to identify factors predicting legal decisions. HYPOTHESES: We …

  • Evaluation of New York State's Sex Offender Civil Management Assessment Process Recidivism Outcomes

    Open AccessJeffrey C Sandler, Naomi J FreemanARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2017Cited by: 1

    Research Summary We sought to evaluate New York State's sex offender civil management law by (a) investigating the sexual rearrest of offenders who were screened for possible civil management but who did not receive it and (b) evaluating the accuracy of the multi‐tiered civil management screening and assessment process. Our results indicated that each step in the multi‐tiered assessment process is effectively and accurately identifying higher ris…

  • Does a watched pot boil? A time-series analysis of New York State's sex offender registration and notification law

    Jeffrey C Sandler, Naomi J Freeman et al.ARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2008Cited by: 13

    Despite the fact that the federal and many state governments have enacted registration and community notification laws as a means to better protect communities from sexual offending, limited empirical research has been conducted to examine the impact of such legislation on public safety. Therefore, utilizing time-series analyses, this study examined differences in sexual offense arrest rates before and after the enactment of New York State’s Sex …