TY  - BOOK
AU  - Logan,Wayne A.
TI  - Knowledge as power: criminal registration and community notification laws in America 
T2  - Critical perspectives on crime and law
SN  - 9780804771399
AV  - KF9751 .L645 2009
U1  - 345.73077 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford Law Books
KW  - Criminal records
KW  - United States
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - United States of America, USA
KW  - thema
KW  - Crime & criminology
KW  - Legal aspects of criminology
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - Criminal law: procedure & offences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is no exception. This book traces the evolution of a modern technique - criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has been complemented by community notification laws, which, like the 'Wanted' posters of the Frontier West, publicly disclose registrants' identifying information, involving entire communities in the criminal monitoring process
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804757102.001.0001
ER  -