The primary focus of sex
offender research has been on the efficacy and collateral consequences of sex
offender registration and notification (SORN) and residence restrictions. Past
scholarship has found these laws to cause numerous re-entry barriers for sex
offenders. Such barriers have affected sex offenders’ ability to find and
maintain housing, employment, and social support. Moreover, registered sex
offenders (RSOs) have become homeless due to such laws.
Although previous
scholarship has highlighted the collateral consequences of SORN, there is a
lack of scholarship addressing homeless sex offenders. Specifically, the
current study assesses policies regarding RSO access to homeless shelters in a
four-state region, focusing on the effect of structural, procedural, and geographic
factors, as well as a shelter’s proximity to children.
Drawing on the loose
coupling organizational framework, the findings suggest that a small maximum
occupancy, unwritten policies for RSOs, being in Kentucky or Tennessee, being
located near a school, and being near a higher proportion of homes with
children all decrease the odds that a homeless shelter allows RSOs.
Furthermore, although unwilling to make exceptions to the policies regarding
RSOs, shelters were generally willing to make exceptions to other policies
governing shelter accessibility.
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Shawn M. Rolfe, University of Louisville, Brigman Hall,
Louisville, KY 40292, USA. Email: shawn.rolfe@louisville.edu
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