This book contains a summary of reports and research regarding the AWA. Links to the full reports are located below.

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1. Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? A Descriptive Analysis of Individuals on Public Sex Offender Registries by Alissa R. Ackerman (Dept. of Social Work, Univ. of Washington), Andrew J. Harris (Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Dept. of Criminal Justice & Criminology), Jill S. Levenson (Dept. of Psychology, Lynn Univ.), and Kristen Zgoba (New Jersey Dept. of Corrections, Research and Evaluation Unit)

2. Adam Walsh Policy by National Conference of State Legislatures

3. SORNA and Sex Offender Policy in the States by The Council of State Governments

4. Collateral Damage: Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders by Jill Levenson and Richard Tewksbury

5. The Adam Walsh Act: A False Sense of Security or an Effective Public Policy Initiative? by Naomi J. Freeman (NY State Office of Mental Health) and Jeffrey C. Sandler (Univ. at Albany)

6. Sex Offense Recidivism, Risk Assessment, and the Adam Walsh Act by Jill Levenson

7. Community Protection from Sexual Violence: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of U.S. Policies by Jill Levenson

8. Widening the Net: The Effects of Transitioning to the Adam Walsh Act's Federally Mandated Sex Offender Classification System by Andrew J. Harris, Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky and Jill Levenson

9. Still Time to Rethink the Misguided Approach of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by Amy Baron-Evans (Sentencing Resource Counsel, Federal Public and Community Defenders)

10. Registering Harm – How Sex Offense Registries Fail Youth and Communities by Justice Policy Institute

11. No Easy Answers – Sex Offender Laws in the U.S. by Human Rights Watch

12. Comments on Proposed Guidelines to Interpret and Implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) by The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

13. Sex Offender Registration and Notification by The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

14. Failure to Register: An Empirical Analysis of Sex Offense Recidivism by Jill Levenson, Elizabeth Letourneau and Kevin Armstrong (Medical Univ. of South Carolina), Kristen Zgoba (New Jersey Dept. of Corrections)

15. Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA): Barriers to Timely Compliance by States by Hearing Before Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security-Committee on the Judiciary

16. 1000,000 Sex Offenders Missing . . . or Are They? Deconstruction of an Urban Legend by Jill Levenson and Andrew J. Harris

17. The Adam Walsh Act: The Scarlet Letter of the Twenty-First Century by Lara Geer Farley (Washburn Univ. School of Law)

18. Putting the Brakes on the Preventive State: Challenging Residency Restrictions on Child Sex Offenders in Illinois under the Ex Post Facto Clause by Michelle Olson (Northwestern Univ. School of Law)

19. Prosecutions under the Adam Walsh Act: Is America Keeping its Promise? by Emily A. White (Washington and Lee Univ. School of Law)

20. A Law of Passion, Not of Principle, Nor Even Purpose: A Call to Repeal or Revise the Adam Walsh Act Amendments to the Bail Reform Act of 1984 by Michael Handler (Northwestern Univ. School of Law)

21. Two Wrongs Make a Wrong: A Challenge to Plea Bargaining and Collateral Consequence Statutes Through Their Integration by Kevin O’Keefe (Northwestern Univ. School of Law, Harvard College)

22. Federalism Challenges to the Adam Walsh Act by Robin Morse (Boston Univ. School of Law)

23. The Adam Walsh Act and the Failed Promise of Administrative Federalism by Wayne A. Logan (Florida State University College of Law)

24. A Time-Series Analysis of New York State’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law by Jeffrey C. Sandler, Naomi J. Freeman, and Kelly M. Socia (School of Criminal Justice, Univ. at Albany)

25. The Evolution of Unconstitutionality in Sex Offender Registration Laws by Catherine L. Carpenter and Amy E. Beverlin (Prof. of Law, Southwestern Law School)

26. Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function? by Amanda Y. Agan (Univ. of Chicago)

27. Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? by J.J. Prescott (Univ. of Michigan) and Jonah E. Rockoff (Columbia Univ.)

28. Public Safety, Individual Liberty, and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws by Melissa Hamilton (Univ. of South Carolina School of Law)

29. Children Sex Offenders: How the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act Hurts the Same Children it is Trying to Protect by Caitlin Young (New England School of Law)

30. Growing Media and Legal Attention to Sex Offenders: More Safety or More Injustice by National Center for Reason and Justice by Emily Horowitz

31. The Good Left Undone: How to Stop Sex Offender Laws from Causing Unnecessary Harm at the Expense of Effectiveness by Catherine Wagner (Univ. of Texas School of Law)

32. Are Bills of Attainder the New Currency? Challenging the Constitutionality of Sex Offender Regulations that Inflict Punishment Without the "Safeguard of a Judicial Trial" by Joel A. Sherwin (Pepperdine Univ. School of Law)

33. What is Smart Sex Offender Policy? by Karen J. Terry (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

34. One of these Laws is not like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions by Corey Rayburn Yung (Assistant Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School)

35. Adam Walsh Act - Part I by Amy Baron-Evans and Sara E. Noonan

36. Adam Walsh Act - Part II: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by Amy Baron-Evans and Sara E. Noonan

37. Supplement to Adam Walsh Act - Part II: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by Amy Baron-Evans and Sara E. Noonan

38. Supplement to Adam Walsh Act - Part II: Sex Offender Registry/Failure to Register Supplement II by Amy Baron-Evans and Sara E. Noonan

39. Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past, Present, and Future by Wayne A. Logan (New England School of Law)

40. Quickly Assuaging Public Fear: How the Well-Intended Adam Walsh Act Led to Unintended Consequences by Brittany Enniss (Utah Law Review Society)

41. Addressing the Collateral Consequences of Convictions for Young Offenders by Ashley Nellis (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)