Re-offending Studies
"Persons who commit sex offenses are not a homogeneous
group, but instead
fall into several different categories. As a result, research has identified
significant differences in reoffense patterns from one category
to another. Looking at reconviction rates alone, one large-scale analysis
(Hanson and Bussiere, 1998) reported the following differences:
-child molesters had a 13% reconviction rate for sexual offenses and a 37%
reconviction rate for new, non-sex offenses over a five year period; and
-rapists had a 19% reconviction rate for sexual offenses and a 46%
reconviction rate for new, non-sexual offenses over a five year period.
Another study found reconviction rates for child molesters to be 20% and
for rapists to be approximately 23% (Quinsey, Rice, and Harris, 1995)."
The Center for Sex
Offender Management (CSOM) has good resources about
recidivism and offenders in general. Topics in their website include the
following:
