Correctional professionals use strategies to monitor sex offenders. The three main general categories of supervision are legal mandates, treatment and electronic monitoring devices. Since sex offenders are the most difficult to monitor, effective strategies are needed. This group is the most difficult to supervise because a sexual act can occur at any time and anywhere in a short amount of time. Statutory MandatesThe laws and sanctions that sex offenders must abide by while under some type of community supervision, whether at a low or high level of recidivism risk, is to keep the community safe. Statutory mandates keep offenders away from reoffending. To help enforce community safety, sex offenders have been required to register under Megan's Law since 1994 in Arizona. There are over 14,000 registered sex offenders in Arizona. In a cross-study of two risk assessments (RRASOR and Static-99) analyzed statistically, the research found that “Our total cohort (N = 1,400) included both rapists and child molesters who may have leveled the potential effects related to age and could therefore explain why young age was not related to the increased overall risk of sexual recidivism in this study.” (Sjöstedt & Långström P.639) This means that the assessments separately showed opposite meanings in terms of young age. When a more comprehensive analysis was performed as outcome research, all risk factors were significant except in male victims. Therefore the two assessments should not be isolated. With this in mind, multiple assessments need to be examined first make exclusion decisions. (Sjöstedt & Långström P.639) These studies provide information on how to improve statutory mandates for monitoring sex offenders. Risk predictors can always be updated and crazy... middle of paper... electronic monitoring devices are all working to their full potential, effective supervision is a goal that can be achieved. References Farkas A. Mary and Miller Gale, Federal Sentencing Reporters, Vol. 21, No. 2, Sex Offenders: Recent Developments in Punishment and Management, (December 2008), p. 78-82University of California Press on behalf of the Vera Institute of Justice, http://www.jstor.org/stable/ 10.1525/fsr.2008.21.2.78, accessed: 10/18/2011 Loftus Rebecca PH.D., Lecture on Risk Assessment, Fall 2011, Community Probation and Corrections. Noted: 10/13/11 - 10/20/11 Sjöstedt Gabrielle and Långström Niklas, Actuarial risk assessment of sexual offender recidivism: a cross-validation of the RRASOR and Static-99 in Sweden, Law and Human Behavior, vol . 25, No. 6, (December 2001), P. 629-645, Springer, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1394544, consulted: 10/18/2011