you register as a sex offender in states.
you register as a sex offender in states.
where do you register as a sex offender?
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committing to a residence requires a convicted sex offender to be notified of registration regulations by local law enforcement if convicted after january 1, 2005. the offender must act upon the notification within five business days of receipt. if and when an offender is released from incarceration, they must confirm their registration status within five business days. registration data includes the offender's sex, height, weight, date of birth, identifying characteristics (if any), statutes violated, fingerprints and a current photograph. an offender's email addresses, chat room ids and instant-messaging aliases must be surrendered to authorities. in colorado, an offender must re-register when moving to a new address, changing their legal name, employment, volunteer activity, identifying information used online or enrollment status at a post-secondary educational institution. a web-based registration list may be found on county websites, which identifies adult convicted sex offenders who are sexually-violent predators convicted of felony sexual acts, crimes of violence or failure to register as required. legally, "any person who is a sexually violent predator and any person who is convicted as an adult...has a duty to register for the remainder of his or her natural life". exceptions to this include deferred sentencing for the offense or petition of the court for termination of registration.
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a study by professors from columbia university and the university of michigan found that having police-only sex offender registries (e.g., britain, canada, australia) significantly reduces sex offender recidivism, but making information about sex offenders publicly available significantly increases recidivism rates. this is because making sex offender information public increases offender stress and also makes the thought of returning to prison less threatening, as some sex offenders may feel returning to prison is not significantly worse than being on the public registry. some sex offenders may come to view their central identity as being that of a sex offender due to the registry, and the more a sex offender views themselves as being a criminal the more likely they are to reoffend. however, the study also found that making sex offender registration publicly available may deter some potential first time sex offenders from committing an offense that would get them on the registry in the first place. the thought of getting on the sex offender registry may or may not deter non-sex offenders from committing sex crimes.
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