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dc.contributor.authorYung, Corey Rayburn
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-04T19:27:50Z
dc.date.available2013-08-04T19:27:50Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationCorey Rayburn Yung, Banishment By a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders, 85 WASH. U. L. REV. 101 (2007).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/11618
dc.descriptionFull-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.
dc.description.abstractAcross America, states, localities, and private communities are debating and implementing laws to limit the places of residence of convicted sex offenders. Twenty states and hundreds, if not thousands, of local communities have adopted statutes which severely limit the places where a sex offender may legally live. In this article, I trace these new laws to historical practices of banishment in Western societies. I argue that the establishment of exclusion zones by states and localities is a form of banishment that I have termed "internal exile." Establishing the connection to banishment punishments helps to explain the unique legal, policy, and ethical problems these laws create for America. Ultimately, residency restrictions could fundamentally alter basic principles of the American criminal justice system. While those supporting these laws have the interests of children at heart, the policies they are promoting will be worse for children and society.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington University in St. Louis School of Law
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://ssrn.com/abstract=959847
dc.subjectSex offenders
dc.subjectSex crimes
dc.subjectChild molestation
dc.subjectRape
dc.subjectResidency restrictions
dc.subjectBanishment
dc.subjectExclusion zones
dc.titleBanishment By a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorYung, Corey Rayburn
kusw.kudepartmentSchool of Law
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