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Economic evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Center program and sex offender registration laws.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Center program and sex offender registration laws./
Author:	Shao, Ling.
Description:	96 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John P. Formby.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3270507
ISBN:	9780549106883

Economic evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Center program and sex offender registration laws.
Shao, Ling.

Economic evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Center program and sex offender registration laws. - 96 p.

Adviser: John P. Formby.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Alabama, 2007.

This dissertation evaluates two intervention programs for sex crimes against children and women in three essays. The first two essays focus on the Children's Advocacy Center program, a community-level innovation that is designed to improve the criminal justice processing of child sexual abuse cases as well as the service delivery to sexually abused children. Essay one uses the contingent valuation method to estimate the economic benefits that the Children's Advocacy Center program accrues to society. A representative sample of 600 residents from two adjacent counties in northern Alabama, Madison and Morgan were asked in a telephone survey about their willingness to pay for the Children's Advocacy Center program. Survey results indicate that a typical household in these two counties would be willing to pay

ISBN: 9780549106883Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Economic evaluation of the Children's Advocacy Center program and sex offender registration laws.
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520 $a The third essay is concerned with sex offender registration programs, which are intended to monitor more closely convicted sex offenders, such as rapists after being released. Regression analysis of state-level panel data from 1970 to 2002 shows that registration programs have reduced the number of forcible rapes reported to the police per 100,000 population annually by 2.3 percent. There is also some weak evidence that these programs are associated with an increase in arrests made because of rape. Overall, research in this dissertation provides economic justifications for these two programs and adds important empirical evidence to the effect of these programs on sex crimes.
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