ABSTRACT
This chapter explores challenges for sex offenders and their families in the areas of employment, residential restrictions, and challenges at home. Employment obstacles for the offender’s family are examined, as are consequences of underemployment and unemployment. A brief legal history of sex offender residency restrictions (SORRs) is provided, and legal challenges to these policies are discussed. This chapter includes a discussion of whether SORRs prevent sex offenses or sexual recidivism, and the collateral consequences of these policies on the partners of registered sex offenders. On the home front, this chapter details the prohibition from contact with minors faced by most sex offenders, and the negative impacts of this restriction on parenting, traveling, and church attendance.
