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There are a wide range of estimates of the recidivism rate for child molesters. However, some of the better designed research on the subject suggests a conservative estimate of long-term recidivism to be 50 percent higher, depending on the type of offender.
tion—has reduced recidivism among child molesters. Intensive community-based supervision and management of child molesters are essential to reduce sexual victimization rates; child abusers have been known to reoffend as late as 20 years following release into the community.
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With rapists, the overall rate of recidivism dropped by almost 30 percent, from 57 percent for charges to 31 percent for incarceration. With child molesters, the overall rate of recidivism dropped by about 25 percent, from 54 percent for charges to 30 percent for incarceration.
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- Recidivism Research Findings
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Recidivism has been conceptually defined as the reversion to criminal behavior by an individual who was previously convicted of a criminal offense (Maltz, 2001). It reflects both the individual's recurrent failure to abide by society's laws and the failure of the criminal justice system to "correct" the individual's law-breaking behavior (Maltz, 20...
Numerous scholars have described the key measurement issues that can affect findings from sex offender recidivism research. Rather than reviewing these issues in their entirety or discussing them in depth, the most important matters that policymakers and practitioners should be concerned with are briefly summarized below.
Empirical data on the recidivism rates of sex offenders come from two broad categories of research: single studies and meta-analysis. Single studies typically track one or more cohorts of sex offenders following an arrest, discharge from probation or release from prison to determine the proportion rearrested, reconvicted or returned to prison withi...
Drawing firm conclusions about the extent of sex offender recidivism can be difficult due to a number of factors. First, although there is universal agreement that the observed recidivism rates of sex offenders are underestimates of actual reoffending, the magnitude of the gap between observed and actual reoffending remains subject to debate. As a ...
In a well-received study looking specifically at recidivism rates for convicted child sex offenders, the 5-year sexual recidivism rate for high-risk sex offenders (often known as Tier 3) is 22%, and decreases for this risk level to 4.2% for those who have remained offense-free in the community for 10 years.
The data indicate that: (a) both rapists and child molesters remain at risk to reoffend long after their discharge, in some cases 15-20 years after discharge; (b) there was a marked underestimation of recidivism when calculating a simple proportion (%) consisting of those who were known to have reoffended during the follow-up period, and (c ...
One strategy to reduce recidivism among child molesters is through treatment. Witt and Greenfield (2001) argued that treatment can re-duce recidivism rates for child sexual abusers by as much as...
