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Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification

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Chapter 6 described the work of Quételet to establish the regularities of crime in the early nineteenth century. Studying the incidence of criminal acts before the courts from 1826 to 1829, he found that young males, poor, uneducated, and unemployed had a greater tendency to commit crimes and be convicted of them. The propensity to commit crimes, he found, was strongest between the ages of 21 and 25.

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Laws, D.R. (2016). Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification. In: Social Control of Sex Offenders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39126-1_8

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