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                            Funding & Awards
 The Efficacy of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Michigan and Missouri
Award Information
Awardee
              Michigan State University
Award #
              2008-DD-BX-0002
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    East Lansing, MI
Congressional District
              8
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2007
Total funding (to date)
              $465,344
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 07 ORE Sex Offenders
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2007, $465,344)
The vast majority of sex offenders will be released from prison and supervised in the community on probation. Recently, Federal and state legislation has been passed to monitor sex offenders, including legislation that restricts where sex offenders can live.  Although these residency restrictions have substantial support among the public, researchers, and policymakers have begun to raise concerns over the efficacy of these laws.
The primary goal of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of sex offender residency and boundary restrictions in Michigan and Missouri.  The research program will proceed in two phases. The first phase of the program will assess the fidelity of implementation of the residency restrictions.  The project will collect quantitative data on the compliance by offenders and correctional personnel with sex offender laws prior to and after implementation of the residency restrictions, and, will interview correctional personnel to gain alternative measures of program fidelity.  To evaluate the effect of boundary restrictions on public safety, the project will conduct a multi-state study that considers the long-term residency patterns, recidivism, and social outcomes (i.e., employment, treatment procurement) of sex offenders serving time in the community on parole or felony probation. The project will employ a quasi-experimental design that includes comparing the outcomes of the post-restrictions sex offender sample with a pre-restrictions control sample and a contemporary control sample of non-sexual offenders will be selected using propensity score matching. Cox proportional hazard models will be used to examine the recidivism models, and map offenders and residency zones using ArcView. In addition, the case files of sexual offenders will be coded to obtain additional information on the victimization event (e.g., location of the offense, and victim/offender relationship). Finally, a series of qualitative interviews will be conducted with a subsample of sexual and non-sexual offenders to better understand the consequences of residency restrictions on self-reported criminality, treatment procurement, housing outcomes, and social support networks.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      The Impact of Legal-Financial Obligations on Relationships With Family, Friends, and Acquaintances: A Qualitative Study of Community Supervised Men With Sexual and Nonsexual Offense Convictions
                  Investigating the Effect of Post-Release Housing Mobility on Recidivism: Considering Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses
                  The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision
                  Access to Health Care and Treatment Among Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses Paroled to Urban and Rural Communities
                  Twice Punished: Perceived Procedural Fairness and Legitimacy of Monetary Sanctions
                  Can Social Support Overcome the Individual and Structural Challenges of Being a Sex Offender? Assessing the Social Support-Recidivism Link
                  Structural Discrimination and Social Stigma Among Individuals Incarcerated for Sexual Offenses: Reentry Across the Rural-Urban Continuum
                  Opting Out: The Role of Identity, Capital, and Agency in Prison Visitation
                  Opting Out The Role of Identity, Capital, and Agency in Prison Visitation
                  The Financial Cost of a Criminal Conviction: Context and Consequences
                  Examining the Correlates of Sex Offender Residence Restriction Violation Rates
                  Pathways to Desistance Among Men Convicted of Sexual Offenses: Linking Post Hoc Accounts of Offending Behavior and Outcomes
                  Evaluation of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Michigan and Missouri
                  Effect of Statewide Residency Restrictions on Sex Offender Post-Release Housing Mobility

  
Date Created: June 30, 2008
    
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