Purpose

Sex offender registration and notification act (SORNA) offenders are a source of scholarly study across the social, behavioral, forensic and legal sciences with the bulk of literature focusing on the legal standing and deterrent value of sexual offender registries. Less research focuses on the offending careers of current SORNA offenders relative to other types of sexual offenders whose current offense is not SORNA. The purpose of the current study is to examine this issue empirically.

Design/methodology/approach

Using cross-sectional data from a census of male federal offenders who ever perpetrated a sexual offense from the central USA between 2016 and 2020, the current study used t-tests, logistic regression and negative binomial regression to compare current SORNA offenders to other federal correctional clients in terms of their lifetime offending history, sexual violence and compliance on federal supervision.

Findings

Current SORNA offenders are significantly more severe and versatile in their sexual offending, have more extensive criminal careers and criminal justice system involvement, and exhibit significantly increased odds of revocation on supervised release despite controls for age, race and ethnicity. However, sensitivity models that specified the federal Post-Conviction Risk Assessment reduced the effects of SORNA status to non-significance in all models.

Originality/value

SORNA offenders are potentially a significant offender group with evidence of both and given their versatile and specialized lifetime offending and noncompliance on federal supervision. However, current SORNA status is rendered spurious once a risk assessment is controlled suggesting more research is needed to evaluate whether sex offender registries posit greater crime control benefit.

中文翻译：

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联邦性犯罪者登记和通知法 (SORNA) 犯罪者：性多样性、犯罪职业和监督结果

目的

性犯罪者登记和通知法 (SORNA) 犯罪者是跨社会、行为、法医和法律科学的学术研究来源，其中大量文献侧重于性犯罪者登记处的法律地位和威慑价值。较少的研究关注当前 SORNA 犯罪者的犯罪职业，相对于当前犯罪不是 SORNA 的其他类型的性犯罪者。当前研究的目的是从经验上研究这个问题。

设计/方法/方法

本研究使用 2016 年至 2020 年间在美国中部实施过性犯罪的男性联邦罪犯普查的横断面数据，使用t检验、逻辑回归和负二项式回归来比较当前的 SORNA 罪犯与其他联邦惩教机构客户的终生犯罪历史、性暴力和对联邦监管的遵守情况。

发现

目前的 SORNA 犯罪者在性犯罪方面明显更加严重和多才多艺，有更广泛的犯罪生涯和刑事司法系统参与，并且尽管对年龄、种族和民族进行了控制，但在监督释放时被撤销的几率显着增加。然而，指定联邦定罪后风险评估的敏感性模型在所有模型中将 SORNA 状态的影响降低到不显着。

原创性/价值

SORNA 罪犯可能是一个重要的罪犯群体，他们有证据证明这两者，而且他们终身犯罪且不遵守联邦监督。然而，一旦风险评估得到控制，当前的 SORNA 状态就会变得虚假，这表明需要更多的研究来评估性犯罪者登记处是否具有更大的犯罪控制益处。