• Violence against women · Nov 2011

    Percentage of named offenders on the registry at the time of the assault: reports from sexual assault survivors.

    • Sarah W Craun, Catherine A Simmons, and Kristen Reeves.
    • College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, 1618 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. scraun@utk.edu
    • Violence Against Women. 2011 Nov 1; 17 (11): 1374-82.

    AbstractSex offender registries were designed to protect the public from convicted sex offenders and future sexual violence. This study determines the percentage of clients seen at a sexual assault agency whose attacker was on the registry at the time the attack occurred. According to case files, only 3.7% of the identified offenders could possibly have been identified as a registered sex offender at the time of the attack. While considering the limitations of this methodology, the findings highlight a significant limitation of registries and support the idea that registries cannot be relied on exclusively to prevent sexual abuse.

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