PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pedophilia

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Super low number and even out of that only 5% is reported to the police. Very difficult to get a good scope on it. We also know there are fairly low conviction rates for sexual assaults even for the ones known to police. Very few go to trail, some are convicted without trial so through plea deal. Unfortunately, sometimes the plea deals go down from sexual assault to just assault in order to get the person to plea, so we lose that stat as well. A lot of the violent crime is sexual in nature as well. Actual sex offences reported to the police are fairly rare. Generally, when sex offences are committed by someone not known to the victim, again much lower conviction rates/ clearance rates: 25% other violent not cleared, scope of sexual offending. Victimization: women & girls are more likely to be victims than males, offending (12-17) and victimization (15-24) more common among younger people.

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