Maine's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act: Wise or Wicked?

Authors

James A. Billings, University of Maine School of Law
Crystal L. Bulges University of Maine School of Law

Abstract

The purpose of this Comment is to discuss both the constitutionality and advisability of such sex offender notification statutes with specific reference to Maine's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (the SORNA). This Comment will discuss, independent of their constitutionality, the advisability of such statutes on a policy level. It is the Authors' thesis that the SORNA will survive constitutional challenges, but as a means of alleviating the problem of sex offender recidivism in this country, the SORNA and similar statutes fail both in theory and in practice. Alternative approaches based on interdisciplinary study will be suggested.

First Page

175

Recommended Citation

James A. Billings & Crystal L. Bulges University of Maine School of Law, Maine's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act: Wise or Wicked?, 52 Me. L. Rev. 175 (2000).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/mlr/vol52/iss1/8