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The Police Collection and Dissemination of Information on Sexual Offenders

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The police collate and use information on sex offenders to assist their investigatory role and their offender management role. That information has sometimes been categorised as ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ information, where ‘hard’ means the verifiable criminal conviction records and ‘soft’ means the other information they hold in the form of ‘police intelligence’. The former is held on the Police National Computer (PNC) and the latter on such systems as the Police National Database (PND) or the Visor system. Both forms of information may be released by the police to employers screening would-be workers with children or vulnerable adults and sometimes also to individual members of the public.

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    Terry Thomas

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Thomas, T. (2016). The Police Collection and Dissemination of Information on Sexual Offenders. In: Policing Sexual Offences and Sex Offenders. Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53239-8_7

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