Title

Community Corrections Professionals' Attitudes About Sex Offenders: Is The Catso Applicable?

Keywords

attitudes toward sex offenders; community corrections officials; sex offenders

Abstract

Little is known about how criminal justice officials perceive fairness, efficacy or scope of sex offender registration, community notification procedures, residency restrictions, and beliefs about sex offenders. The present study examines the utility of assessing community corrections professionals' views of sex offenders using the community attitudes toward sex offenders scale. Evaluation of the applicability of this standardized scale for understanding community corrections professionals' views reveals problems with the scale's application. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

8-1-2012

Publication Title

Criminal Justice Studies

Volume

25

Issue

2

Number of Pages

145-157

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2012.699733

Socpus ID

84864702484 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84864702484

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