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The recidivism data suggest that current legal responses to people convicted of sex offenses are less about managing risk than maximizing punishment. The desire for retribution is understandable; unquestionably, rape and sexual assault inflict serious and lasting trauma.
Sexual recidivism rates range from 5 percent after three years to 24 percent after 15 years. The rates of recidivism for general crime are higher than those for sex crimes. Different types of sex offenders have different rates of recidivism. Introduction.
Sex offender recidivism (SOR) has been the subject of research for over 70 years. Myths, misconceptions, and erroneous conclusions about SOR, however, remain widespread, impeding the development of evidence-based policies aimed at preventing sexual offenses.
This review of the scientific literature on the recidivism of adult sex offenders presents findings about recidivism generally and sexual recidivism specifically, because many sex offenders engage in both sexual and non-sexual crimes; and it also addresses the recidivism rates by type of sex offender (child molesters, rapists. exhibitionists ...
The study examined the recidivism patterns of 9,691 male sex offenders released from prisons in 15 states in 1994.3 The researchers found a sexual recidivism rate of 5.3 percent for the entire sample of sex offenders, based on an arrest during the 3-year followup period.
Sex offenders — regardless of type — have higher rates of general recidivism than sexual recidivism. Recidivism studies have consistently found that adult sex offenders have much higher rates of general reoffending than sexual reoffending.
The chart shows that people released after serving sentences for rape or sexual assault are much less likely than those who served sentences for property, drug, public order, or violent crimes generally to be rearrested.
