Sex offender registration and community notification challenges: the Supreme Court continues its trend.

摘要: All states and the District of Columbia have passed sex offender registration community notification laws. While specific provisions these statutes vary, all public safety as a primary goal. The authors discuss two recent cases heard by United States Supreme Court that challenged constitutionality Alaska's Connecticut's statutes. laws were violations Constitution's prohibition on ex post facto its Fourteenth Amendment guarantee procedural due process. In both cases, upheld. As it has found in challenges to sexually violent predator statutes, emphasized schemes are civil not criminal nature. article concludes with discussion possible implications for clinicians involved evaluating or treating offenders.