The Sex Offender ‘Register’
A Case Study in Function Creep
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13894908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Thomas (Leeds Beckett University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227-237 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5527 • E-ISSN: 1468-2311 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2008.00514.x |
| OpenAlex | W2032294042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 5 |
We now have ten years' experience of the sex offender ‘register’ and its requirements that offenders having committed designated offences notify the police every time their address and other details change. In those years the ‘register’ has been strengthened and added to in various ways to make notification an increasingly onerous business. The police have been given new powers to enable them to enter premises. Those on the ‘register’ have been denied early release from prison available to other offenders. This article asks questions about how far we can take the ‘register’ before it becomes less of a public protection measure and more of a punishment in its own right
Business · Computer security · Criminology · Function (biology · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Register (sociolinguistics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0.47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |