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Monitoring Sex Offenders by GPS: When Technology Outruns the Law  


Author:  Roslyn Myers, J.D..


Source: Volume 23, Number 02, Fall/Winter 2010 , pp.23-26(4)




Journal of Offender Monitoring

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Abstract: 

This article examines Commonwealth v. John W. Canadyan, Jr., a case that highlights some of the difficulties related to GP S monitoring of sex offenders, then reviews national policy and legislative trends toward employing GP S technology in enforcing sex offender registration and notification laws.

Keywords: GPS as condition of probation; virtual parole officer

Affiliations:  1: John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Fordham Law School.

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