CSOM is developing a variety of publications to provide assistance to the field on the effective management of sex offenders in the community. These publications include:

• Sex Offender Registration: Policy Overview and Comprehensive Practices

  This brief is intended to inform citizens, state and local leaders, and criminal justice professionals about the policy issues related to sex offender registration, and to describe current sex offender registration practices around the country.

• Identifying Resources for Managing Sex Offenders

  The Center for Sex Offender Management has developed this resource guide to assist individuals and agencies in identifying resources to help manage sex offenders. The purpose of this guide is threefold: to help users think more extensively and expansively about developing and acquiring resources for sex offender management; to familiarize users with some of the resources that are currently available for managing sex offenders; and to provide guidance to users on strategies for developing and enhancing resources.

• Case Studies on the Center for Sex Offender
  Management's National Resource Sites

  In an effort to highlight some of the most promising sex offender management practices in the nation, the Center for Sex Offender Management has developed case studies on ten of CSOM's National Resource Sites who have developed innovative sex offender management and supervision techniques.

• CSOM Policy and Practice Briefs
  The Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) is producing a series of policy and practice briefs that address critical topics in the area of effective sex offender management. These policy and practice briefs provide an overview of promising practices in the field, as well as a discussion of the benefits and limitations of such practices. The briefs are distributed nationally through direct mailings, through the major national criminal justice libraries, and will be added to this web site as they become available. The following briefs are currently available:

  An Overview of Sex Offender Community Notification Practices: Policy Implications and Promising Approaches
  This brief is intended to inform citizens, state and local leaders, and criminal justice professionals about the policy issues related to community notification, and to describe current community notification practices around the country.

• Fact Sheets
  The Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) is producing a series of fact sheets that address critical topics in the area of effective sex offender management. These fact sheets will advance a common language and understanding in the field. The fact sheets are distributed nationally through direct mailings, through the major national criminal justice libraries, and will be added to this web site as they become available. The following fact sheets are currently available:

• Glossary of Terms (Adobe Acrobat File)
  A glossary of terms with definitions that reflect conventionally accepted language in the field of sex offender management.

• Compendium of OJP-Sponsored Projects Relating to Sex Offenders (Adobe Acrobat File)
  The purpose of this compendium is to document under one cover the various initiatives related to sex offender management currently being sponsored by OJP and to promote the exchange of information and ideas within OJP, other federal agencies, and throughout the field.

  This selection is available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format which allows the document to be downloaded, viewed, and printed with all of its original formatting and graphics. To view files in this format you must first a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader and follow the instructions for installation.