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Criminal Law

2008

Florida State University College of Law

Parole

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Sex Offender Registration And Community Notification Policy: Past, Present, And Future, Wayne A. Logan Jan 2008

Sex Offender Registration And Community Notification Policy: Past, Present, And Future, Wayne A. Logan

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It’s a great honor to be with you here today and to provide the keynote address in this wonderful symposium examining issues relating to probation and parole. The panels have been remarkably rich and informative. That they should occur here in Massachusetts, where probation in particular originated in 1841, makes the proceedings today especially fitting.

Probation and parole, of course, are the epitome of state-indeed, community-based criminal justice. As recognized since the founding era, and repeatedly acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court, criminal justice in our federal union is mainly an undertaking of state and local governments, which process the …