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Community Restrictions on Sex Offender Behavior

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All ex-prisoners face a considerable array of barriers to reentry and reintegration to society. These apply to general criminal offenders as well as sex offenders. Travis (2005, p. 66) has referred to these barriers as “invisible punishments.” The barriers are invisible, he says, because they do not appear in supervision orders governing offender behavior in the community. Travis (2005, p. 73) further states:

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Laws, D.R. (2016). Community Restrictions on Sex Offender Behavior. In: Social Control of Sex Offenders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39126-1_9

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