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    Paying to Be Punished: A Statutory Analysis of Sex Offender Registration Fees
    with David A. Makin and Andrea M. Walker
    Criminal Justice Ethics 37 (3): 215-237. 2018.
    Over the last 20 years, sex offender policies, specifically in terms of community corrections, have increased in scope. One of the most controversial and pervasive sex offender policies is that of registration. In response to the consumption of already limited resources, jurisdictions have imposed increasingly higher community supervision fees onto the offenders, requiring them to pay for their own re-entry. However, to date no research study has examined the statutory language associated with r…Read more
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    Societal decline is associated with both the decline of social cohesion and the increase in decadence. Religion is both a binding factor that promotes social cohesion and a bulwark that protects against decadence (materialism/consumerism). Religiosity is an evolved psychosocial, multilevel adaptation that both confers strength to social bonds, and reinforces prosocial values that mitigate declines toward the temptation of decadence.