States, municipalities, and parole departments have adopted policies banning known sex offenders from Halloween activities, based on the worry that there is unusual risk on these days. The existence of this risk has not been empirically established. "How Safe Are Trick-or-Treaters? An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween," by Mark Chaffin, Jill Levenson, Elizabeth Letourneau and Paul Stern, and published in the September 2009 issue of Sexual Abuse looks at this issue. Below is an overview of the article by the authors; you can read the full article here.
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