There are several good books to read about sex offense laws as well as the lives of persons forced to register. The following books are known and recommended. All can be ordered on the Amazon website.
- Sex Offender Laws: Failed Policies, New Directions – Richard G. Wright
- We’re All in this Together – Frank Udall Lindsay
- Sex Panic and the Punitive State – Roger Lancaster
- Lost Memory of Skin – Russell Banks
- Treating Adolescent Sex Offenders – Charlene Steen
- Unprecedented, How Sex Offender Laws are Impacting Our Nation – J.B. Haralson and J.R. Cordeiro
- Sex Registration Guidebook – Victor VeVea and J. Anthony Bryan
Note: This list will be kept current on the Recommended Reading Page
You might consider adding this one: PUNISHING THE POOR: THE NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOCIAL INSECURITY, by Loic Wacquant, Duke U. Press. Chapter 7 is titled “Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders.” You can find in on Amazon. It’s well researched and powerful.