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Abstract: 

Amid the furor regarding sex offenders over the past decade or so, the popular press has given less attention to sexually violent predator (SVP) civil commitment laws than to community notification laws or residency restriction laws. The latter two deal with sex offenders in the community, so perhaps these laws have more saliency to the public than SVP commitment cases, which are “out of sight, out of mind." Nonetheless, SVP cases are controversial among forensic psychology and psychiatry professionals, who tend to be polarized regarding the appropriatenessof civilly committing sex offenders.

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Affiliations:  1: Associates in Psychological Services; 2: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.